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LoadRunner and the Cloud – It’s here!!

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

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HP today announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services that enables you to run HP LoadRunner v9.5 in Amazon EC2.  The project is currently in beta, so it’s limited to the East US EC2 region, but does already include pre-built AMIs for your Controller (250 VUs) and any size of Load generator (32 or 64 [...]

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WAN Emulation vs WAN Simulation

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

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One of the topics we are frequently asked is to explain or clarify the difference between WAN Emulation and WAN Simulation. WAN Simulation methodology is a set of theoretical algorithms which are usually applied on a trace file. These algorithms aim to predict applications response times with different conditions and then applied to the captured [...]

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Improving the Quality for the End User

Monday, December 21, 2009

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One student at a time… Recently, I visited a company that develops and distributes software for Independent School District’s across USA. Their main product, originally developed for challenged kids, centers around dynamic computerized teaching and testing programs. This product proved to be so successful among this population that the company adapted it for other kids [...]

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Impact of Latency on Cloud Computing

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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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 [...]

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How Accurate is your Intelligence? Join Us at the I/ITSEC show this week

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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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 [...]

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Join Us Wednesday, Nov 11 for the Carolina Chapter Vivit Meeting

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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Chat with your peers and share everyday challenges, experiences and tips & tricks on the HP Software solutions for application performance testing and management. 10:45 AM to 2:00 PM – The Governors Club – Chapel Hill, NC VENUE & FACILITIES: The Governors Club – Chapel Hill, NC DIRECTIONS: To The Governors Club – Chapel Hill, [...]

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Building Applications for a Remote Datacenter Part 2 Application Efficiency Metrics

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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In the previous post we identified the Wide Area Network and the impairments that it introduces as a key reason for why a local user (let’s say in NYC) experiences a faster application than a user that is remote to his datacenter (let’s say in Tokyo). I also presented a question to the group: “We [...]

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Hosted Load Testing II

Friday, October 30, 2009

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My friend Mark Tomlinson from HP recently wrote an informative blog about “Understanding the language of hosted load testing.”  The blog touched on two competing approaches to application performance testing that were referenced as “behind the firewall” and “outside the firewall”.  Behind the firewall testing usually means testing in a lab environment such as a [...]

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Mitigating the Risk of Failed Application Integration as a Result of M&A

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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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, [...]

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Join us Tuesday, Oct 20th for an informative VIVIT User Group Discussion

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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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 – [...]

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