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...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...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...Friday, August 21, 2009
Shunra launches the new VE Suite 6.0 http://tinyurl.com/o8lfru # Check out this great series of posts on Data center relocation. http://tinyurl.com/ku5wln # Interested? Check out and join this cool group called Application Performance Management Group http://www.linkedin.com #
Continue reading...Friday, August 21, 2009
Lab Trials Faster, Cheaper, if you have the right tools Read Jim Frey’s Article posted on Network World website earlier today highlighting Shunra’s best practice for selecting WAN Optimization Solutions. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/44600 Shunra enables these best practices by providing evaluation teams with a controlled benchmarking environment either as a technological solution or as a turn key [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Using Linq expressions in a client-server application. http://tinyurl.com/mp9ybh # How will this application perform from a remote site? http://tinyurl.com/l86r9e # How do we know that the Shunra VE models that we use in our tests are up to date? http://tinyurl.com/mcy98y # Web application performance analysis made easy (or at least easier) http://tinyurl.com/kl4ctv # Ouch! Applications [...]
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...Thursday, July 9, 2009
Join us for a webinar… Best Practices Around Data Center Relocations Shunra can provide a proven strategy and process for predicting and resolving application performance issues during a move. Hear from Shunra Expert, Liam McCamley, as he presents 5 tips and offers a 7 step process that can help you avoid those failures and make [...]
Continue reading...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...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 [...]
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