The FCC just released a set of tools designed to test a user connection to the Internet,both for PC platforms (works on IE and Firefox) and applets for Iphone and other smart phones. Just access www.broadband.gov and you will be prompted to review the national plan to deploy broadband and invited to test your own [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 21, 2010
A post found today in Mashable, a blog focusing on social technology, reports that the Internet in the US is showing signs of slowing down, as measured by Aramaic, the global content provider. The performance in Q3 was bad enough to displace the US from the 10 top countries with fastest Internet access in the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The new buzzword around the IT block is “Cloud Computing”, the ability to avoid deploying costly infrastructure on each location by contracting a “virtual” infrastructure environment from dedicated vendors. Need to expand? Just call your provider and double your server capacity and triple your storage. However, we may need to apply a sobriety test, where [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 1, 2009
I/ITSEC Conference Orlando 2009 November 30 – December 4 Orange County Convention Center Orlando, Florida Stop by the Shunra Booth #2715 Understanding our network is even more critical then ever before, yet we often guess on how applications will perform when rolled out across the network. Military IT organizations use Shunra’s virtual network solutions to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 22, 2009
In the first half of 2009 alone, the ten largest M&A transactions totaled a combined value of $244.6 Billion! History has shown that executing an acquisition is an opportunity to generate value; however successful integration completes the process. Many companies are integrating their applications as a direct result of a recent merger or acquisition.* Therefore, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Chat with your peers and share everyday challenges, experiences and tips & tricks on the HP Software solutions for application performance testing and management. Food, drink and great conversation provided! Chapter Meeting & Shunra Presentation at HP Alpharetta building from 6.30pm-8pm. Click here for directions Agenda: 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm Networking 6:00 pm – [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 11, 2009
I have been meaning to address the impact that cloud computing has on performance engineering but haven’t had the time to rigorously tackle this issue. After all, there are serious implications both for vendors that deliver applications and services from the Cloud as well as enterprises that are rapidly migrating more and more services to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 20, 2009
Examples of latency sensitive applications In the previous post http://www.shunra.com/shunrablog/index.php/2009/08/14/data-center-relocation-questions-and-answers-part-1/ I shared some of the questions that clients typically ask me during the performance analysis service in a data center relocation project. One of the most popular question, especially at the beginning of the project is “which applications are the most sensitive to network latency?”. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Anyone developing on the WPF platform surely knows the Snoop utility by Pete Blois. It is absolutely awesome and I cannot imagine developing WPF applications without it. However, there is a problem with it. One cannot snoop WPF framework elements nested too deep. By too deep I mean somewhere around 60 layers. Trying to snoop [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 26, 2009
New Performance validation efficiencies with WAN Emulation and HP Software Speakers: Adam Clay Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Shunra Software Jeff Chapman Head of Technology at ING Direct Howard Chorney Lead Consultant at JES Consulting In this case study you’ll hear how an enterprise performance testing team developed a solution for discovering the viability of [...]
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