Application Performance Management Blog – Shunra Software

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

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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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-19

Shunra is going to attend HP Virtual Universe on September 29, 30, drop a line if you plan to come too http://tinyurl.com/nor9og #

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Analyzing and remediating latency sensitive applications part 1

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?”. [...]

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Washington Mandates Health Data Revolution

The recent passage of funding to address ineffienciacies in patient record creation and information transfer has created a new opportunity for pre deployment application testing. Current “paper based” systems are impracticle and expensive to maintain. Due to the enormous amount of digital data that will replace current files a systemic test methodology must be instituted [...]

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What’s new in LoadRunner 9.5 – the rest of the story

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 [...]

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VE Desktop for HP Software 5.0 versus LoadRunner MWE

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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ROI potential keeps WAN optimization projects on the table

I read an interesting article from Network World on the impact the current financial crisis is having on IT projects and how ROI on key initiatives like WAN optimization are overcoming these challenges. I have personally noticed this continued trend for companies to invest in WAN optimization and application acceleration initiatives as it (1) is [...]

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