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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 21, 2009
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 [...]
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...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 5, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 30, 2009
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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