Application Performance Engineering Blog – Shunra Software

Using Shunra VE Technology in a VDI Implementation

The latest buzzword in IT is “Virtualization”. Of course, the acronym can be apply to many cases, but the most commonly used case refers to the PC replacement with new generation of “terminals” that are commonly referred to as “DV”, Desktop Virtual Infrastructure. No, we are not talking about the reincarnation of V-100 green screen [...]

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Is Apple’s IPAD a Game Changer?

Since Steve Jobs presented Apple’s new addition, the IPAD, the press and the blogosphere are trying to assess the real impact on the new gadget. Is it a passing fad, like the Newton or the attempts by IBM to implement a tablet computer or a real game changer that finally, after almost 30 of personal [...]

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Is the Internet in the United States slowing down?

A post found today in Mashable, a blog focusing on social technology, reports that the Internet in the US is showing signs of slowing down, as measured by Aramaic, the global content provider. The performance in Q3 was bad enough to displace the US from the 10 top countries with fastest Internet access  in the [...]

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Location-aware deployment testing

As a corollary to last week’s blog about hosted load testing, I thought it would be interesting to explain a little about using a cloud-based test environment to perform pre-deployment testing for a cloud-based application. That sounds like a lot of clouds!  What we are simply trying to understand is where and how to deploy [...]

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