Tag Archive | "Network Emulation"
Migrating to Business Ethernet Service
Impact on Enterprise Application Performance In the current economic environment where growth is tough to come by, Business Ethernet Service (aka Carrier Ethernet, Metro Ethernet) is bucking the trend. A recent analyst report confirms the uptick in growth of these services for Business Applications: Source: Vertical Systems Group, March 2009 Service providers are reaching critical [...]
Continue reading...Analyzing and remediating latency sensitive applications part 1
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...Data Center Relocation Questions and Answers Part 1
Friday, August 14, 2009
In my line of work, I get to assist many clients with analyzing the impact of an upcoming data center relocation on the performance of business applications. Many clients don’t know exactly what application performance to expect post the data center move. The main concern is that once all the applications start to operate across [...]
Continue reading...Business Process Performance Monitoring – A WAN Emulation Solution
Friday, July 10, 2009
Recently I was brainstorming with an insurance company for ways we could help them reduce their costs for business process (application) performance monitoring by introducing WAN emulation into their environment. The problem was that they had thousands of locations accessing a wide variety (250+) applications. Being an insurance company, most of the applications really were [...]
Continue reading...I will be presenting a Joint Shunra-IXIA solution at Interop in Vegas from May 19th. – May 21st.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
I have been working with Wesley Hand from IXIA on a joint solution that combines IXIA Test Composer, IxExplorer and Shunra VE. This solution creates an automated network emulation test bed that combines traffic generation, WAN impairments, network simulation and test automation.
Continue reading...What’s new in LoadRunner 9.5 – the rest of the story
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
One of my favorite partners to work with is LoadTester. Not only are they competent and efficient, but they are nice and will tell you what they really think. Their latest update on HP’s latest release of LoadRunner 9.5 goes into a lot more detail than any readme file will, with perspective and colorful commentary [...]
Continue reading...VE Desktop for HP Software 5.0 versus LoadRunner MWE
Friday, March 6, 2009
Earlier this week, Shunra announced the release of a new product, VE Desktop for HP Software 5.0. This product is embedded into HP’s LoadRunner 9.5 and Performance Center 9.5 products and from the surface, looks a lot like a previous feature in LoadRunner called Mercury WAN Emulation (MWE). Because of the obvious similarities, there have [...]
Continue reading...Will Businesses Be Able to Support a Paradigm Shift With Enterprise Software?
Monday, February 23, 2009
Many organizations are quickly realizing that the days of purchasing bundles of large scale software suites, such as an ERP, are coming to an end – maybe even faster than they could have anticipated. This trend has emerged due to the global recession, which many economists are saying will only get worse before it gets [...]
Continue reading...Replacing Remote Load Generators
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Have you ever tried to run a test, only to find that your Load Generators half-way around the world are not responding? If any of that sounds familiar, then you might want to consider using network emulation instead of deploying Load Generators around the globe. By using an emulation solution, you can bring your testing [...]
Continue reading...Web page performance testing using WAN simulation
Friday, November 14, 2008
Everyone knows that performance of Web sites is critical to their success. In order to build a well performing Web page, everyone also knows that testing needs to be done early and often. What most people do not seem to know is what or how to test. This recent Microsoft Developer Zone Magazine article does [...]
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Monday, August 24, 2009
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