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Crowd-sourcing Vs. Automation for Data Center Relocation (DCR) testing

Friday, July 23, 2010

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I recently had two separate conversations with professional performance engineering colleagues of mine, Mark Tomlinson, product manager for HP Load Runner and Performance Center http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtomlins and with Todd DeCapua http://www.linkedin.com/pub/todd-decapua-mba-csm-csp/2/684/673 who until recently managed an industry recognized Automation / Performance / Agile Scrum practice. The topic of the discussion was how organizations should address the [...]

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A Data Driven Transactional Application A glossary post

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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A data driven transactional application supports the execution of business processes. Each business process (such as book sale, update employee status, submit work hours, etc.) is comprised of multiple business transactions. A business transaction is described as the interaction and managed outcome of a well-defined step within a business process. A transaction is usually triggered [...]

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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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Building Applications for a Remote Datacenter Part 1. The network impact

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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This series of posts is about the day after a data center move. Now that the data center is remote, how does this paradigm shift impact the way we should develop, test, deploy, monitor and troubleshoot applications. I will try to cover as many topics as possible, but the main focus is still going to be around the role application performance management plays in this new paradigm.

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Shunra Software Teams up with Testhouse

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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I was proud to announce that Shunra Software had teamed up with Testhouse for a Webinar.  Hear from Peter Shave, Alliance Director, at Testhouse, and Dave Berg, Product Manager from Shunra Software, as they discuss the value of having WAN emulation as part of your load testing. Through the new integration of WAN emulation into [...]

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Cloud computing adoption rises so what should you do about it?

Friday, September 11, 2009

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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 [...]

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Is Microsoft Quietly Providing an Alternative to WAN Acceleration

Friday, September 4, 2009

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As part of our service offerings at Shunra’s professional services, we help our clients analyze the performance ROI of WAN acceleration. We also wrote a best practices paper about it here http://www.shunra.com/uploads/pdf/WAN-acceleration-whitepaper-031909.pdf. Which is why I was very interested in learning about 2 new developments from Microsoft. These developments provide  improved performance for branch office [...]

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Shunra Software at HP Software Universe 2009

Friday, June 26, 2009

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New Performance validation efficiencies with WAN Emulation and HP Software Speakers: Adam Clay Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Shunra Software Jeff Chapman Head of Technology at ING Direct Howard Chorney Lead Consultant at JES Consulting In this case study you’ll hear how an enterprise performance testing team developed a solution for discovering the viability of [...]

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Performance Engineering Why so many companies don’t get it – Part 3

Friday, May 29, 2009

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In the previous 2 posts we described several ways in which sub optimal performance engineering practices manifest themselves, as well as identified the lack of goal commonality between developers and performance engineers as one of the key reasons behind these sub optimal practices. In this post I want to look at the problem from a [...]

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Performance Engineering – Why so many companies don’t get it – Part 2

Thursday, May 7, 2009

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Part 2 (for part 1 click here) Anyone who was ever part of a performance engineering process should be able to relate to the following story: “…Version 3.5 of a critical application is scheduled for release in 6 weeks, the latest stable build (internal version) of the application finally made it to the hands of [...]

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