Resource Library: White Papers

Managing Application Performance by Understanding Applications

IT organizations are considering application delivery from new perspectives due to the automation of key business processes, and the fact that acceptable application performance is continually becoming more difficult. This paper identifies some of the key issues that make ensuring acceptable application performance so difficult. And describes how IT organizations can use WAN emulation tools to improve the performance of applications, plan for change and improve the relationship between the application groups and the network group.Read the White Paper

When Money is Riding on the Network: Mitigating Performance Risks for Online Financial Systems

This paper discusses the serious stake that financial institutions have in the performance of their online systems. If those systems perform poorly over the Internet – or if they actually fail – it can cost an institution hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue.Read the White Paper

Bridging the Divide Between Application Design and Service Deployment

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Network Simulation and Emulation: Best-in-Class Approaches for Dealing with Network Complexity

This Research Brief compares the network and application performance of two types of organizations form Aberdeen’s survey: those that have solutions for replicating network and application performance in the preproduction stage, and those that d not.Read the White Paper

Testing Secure Enterprise SOA Applications across the WAN without Leaving the Lab

Learn how SAP used the Shunra VE solution, and other testing tools, to perform hands-on testing of a WAN distributed enterprise SOA application landscape. Read the White Paper

The Real Value of Network Visibility

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Best Practices for Selecting a WAN Optimization Solution: Benchmarking Performance ROI

WAN optimizatin can ensure that remote users around the world have ready access to critical applications and services. This white paper provides a best practices approach for defining requirements and comparing alternative WAN optimizatin solutions. Most important, it offers a performance ROI that IT organizations can use to select the WAN optimization solution that delivers the greatest business value.Read the White Paper

New Gartner Research: Understanding WAN Simulation and Network Testing Tool Alternatives

Shunra is offering you a complimentary copy of Gartner's research note "Understanding WAN Simulation and Network Testing Tool Alternatives." Shunra recommends this must-read reasearch note, if you’re responsible for ensuring the performance of critical applications – and if you want to avoid post-deployment problems and the “blame game” that’s afflicting so many IT organizations. Read the White Paper

No Weak Links: Mitigating Network-Related Risk Factors in Military Applications

While the pre-deployment testing of critical applications in a virtual network environment is a best practice for any IT organization, military developers and planners face a particular set of challenges in discovering and eliminating performance-related risks. Ensure that applications run properly during critical operations through pre-deployment testing of your application and network systems on your emulated real world network.Read the White Paper

Predicting the Impact of Data Center Moves on Application Performance

Moving and/or consolidating a data center is a risky business. In fact, 20-40% of applications fail to meet service level objectives after such a move. This paper shows you how to avoid the pitfalls and predict potential application and network related performance issues.Read the White Paper

Pre-Test Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plans: The Network Simulation Solution

Effective IT disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning is essential for every business. However, because IT environments have become so complex – and because IT budgets are stretched so thinly – IT organizations face real challenges as they attempt to safeguard their businesses against such disasters. This new white paper explains how network simulation technology enables effective DR planning by ensuring the adequacy and accuracy of DR implementations, helping IT and business managers understand exactly when they may need to put DR plans into action and by enabling full documentation of DR planning efforts.Read the White Paper

Ptak, Noel & Associates: Shunra VE 5.0: Simulation tool for today’s IT

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Choosing A Load Testing Strategy (by Borland)

This paper, by Borland introduces load testing, an important component in optimizing software quality. It discuses the various strategies for implementing load testing within an organization, and explores the very real benefits load testing returns to the organization.Read the White Paper

New! Best Practices in Enterprise Application Performance Management (by Apsera Tech)

This paper explains, in simple terms, the causes of slow application performance in the enterprise network, and highlights the best practices you can adopt to alleviate the situation.Read the White Paper

Take the Risk Out of VoIP Deployment and Ownership

This white paper provides a best practices approach to help you effectively deliver the right VoIP solution for your network. It provides you with practical advice on how to ensure optimal voice quality to end-users, and fulfill service level objectives, and tips on how to guarantee that your VoIP platform will keep on performing well after the contract is delivered – while drastically reducing the risks associated with downtime and/or sub-standard call quality. Read the White Paper

Understand Oracle Enterprise 8.8 Applications Network Performance & Infrastructure Needs (by Oracle Corp.)

This White Paper provides a summary of the Oracle Enterprise 8.8 applications (previously PeopleSoft) network performance needs. It includes expert advice from Oracle’s Benchmark and Performance team on how to measure application and network performance and details the WAN infrastructure needed to support performance requirements.Read the White Paper

Understanding the Network Impact on Application Load Testing

This case study documents how a leading financial institution was able to avoid potential performance issues by incorporating the behavior of the production network into their load testing process before rolling out a strategic application.Read the White Paper

How to Optimize Application QoE Before Rollout

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) explains how development and networking staff can ensure Quality Of Experience (QoE) before application deployment to reduce costs, accelerate time-to-benefit, and optimize service levels.Read the White Paper

Technology Audit: Shunra Virtual Enterprise Solution

Effective performance management requires planning and clear insight into how applications, infrastructure and networks interact. Read Butler Group’s independent assessment of Shunra VE technology and its impact on performance across the entire application lifecycle.Read the White Paper

The Virtual Enterprise: Eliminating the Risk of Delivering Distributed IT Services

Want to minimize the risk of cost over-runs, slow time-to-benefit and inadequate service levels? This paper shows you how to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of the enterprise network into the pre-deployment lifecycle, so you can deliver well performing applications on time and on budget.Read the White Paper

Citrix and Terminal Server Network Tuning and Troubleshooting

Network characteristics such as bandwidth, latency, packet loss and MTU size can significantly impact Citrix MetaFrame and Microsoft Terminal Server implementations. Citrix Expert Brian Madden provides a comprehensive guide to common performance problems and how to resolve them.Read the White Paper

Optimizing the Performance of .NET Applications Over the Network

.NET applications are particularly sensitive to network conditions. That’s why you need to understand precisely how .NET applications will perform on the network before you move past unit testing. Learn how .NET professionals can validate real-world performance in advance to avoid project delays and costly re-coding.
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Testing Your Applications Before You Go Offshore

Many businesses are moving operations offshore to reduce costs. But critical applications often don’t perform well over network connections with limited bandwidth and significant latency. Here’s how you can ensure that you can effectively support overseas users before making your move offshore. Read the White Paper

What Every Software Developer Needs to Know About the Network

Developers can no longer write code without knowing how network characteristics such as bandwidth, latency and content errors affect the behavior of distributed applications. This technical primer gives developers an overview of IP networking and shows why unit testing under real-life network conditions is a must.Read the White Paper