Tag Archive | "VE Desktop for HP Software"
LoadRunner and the Cloud – It’s here!!
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...The Value of Leveraging Virtualization for Application Performance Testing
Friday, March 12, 2010
Virtualization has emerged as one of the leading technologies in today’s market; enabling businesses to more effectively scale operations to meet demand while significantly reducing costs at the same time. Everyone seems to understand what virtualization is, but it’s actually rather difficult to define because the term is used interchangeably to describe a plethora of [...]
Continue reading...HP tackles the challenges of load testing
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Video: Mark Tomlinson and Steve Feloney from HP address the risk of load testing Web 2.0 applications without considering WAN latency
Continue reading...Video: Test Mobile Performance with Shunra
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Traveling to this week’s HP Software Universe in Hamburg with Mark Tomlinson was a real treat. Not only do Mark and I share many non-professional interests, but our lives as product managers give us plenty to chat about. On our train ride from Berlin to Hamburg, Mark’s insatiable blogging appetite bared itself while we were [...]
Continue reading...Analyzing and remediating latency sensitive applications part 2 Oracle Clinical
Thursday, September 17, 2009
In the previous post http://www.shunra.com/shunrablog/index.php/2009/08/14/data-center-relocation-questions-and-answers-part-1/ I presented an example of a common performance problem with applications that host executables on a remote shared drive. As common as that problem is, it is usually a legacy problem, most new applications follow a more best practices architecture usually involving a web based front end for the application. [...]
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...More on how to add network conditions to a LoadRunner 9.5 Scenario
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Last week I published a post (here) on how to add network conditions to a LoadRunner 9.5 scenario. For those of you who prefer a step by step video tutorial, the following video is an excellent one by David Berg who is Shunra’s product manager for VE Desktop. Enjoy: Amichai
Continue reading...I Will be Teaching at the Next Shunra University in Philadelphia – April 14 – 16
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
One of the highlights of my work at Shunra is being able to teach at the Shunra University. I get to work with a handful of great IT professionals as we drill down into the best practices and challenges of making applications perform well across networks. As much as I love teaching, the biggest value [...]
Continue reading...Adding Network Analysis to a LoadRunner 9.5 Scenario
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
In a previous post I explained how to add network conditions to a LoadRunner scenario, answering the question, “How will this application perform in a remote site?” The results from running a LoadRunner test with network conditions will highlight transactions that perform well under network conditions as well as pinpoint transactions that will degrade in [...]
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 [...]
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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