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...
View ArticleCisco place a bet on Video over IP
By 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte, (a trillion GB), according to a new forecast of IP traffic...
View ArticleAnalyzing and remediating latency sensitive applications part 2 Oracle Clinical
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...
View ArticleBuilding Applications for a Remote Datacenter Part 1. The network impact
Ten years ago most organizations still had their data center located next to headquarters. Then 9/11 happened and the east cost blackout happened and Katrina, along with heavy increases in energy...
View ArticleBuilding Applications for a Remote Datacenter Part 2 Application Efficiency...
In the previous post we identified the Wide Area Network and the impairments that it introduces as a key reason for why a local user (let’s say in NYC) experiences a faster application than a user that...
View ArticleLocation-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...
View ArticleCloud Computing to the Desktop
VMware is releasing a new technology, developed by Teradici that may greatly improve the performance of remote desktops, quintessence filling a gap in the Cloud Computing paradigm. It will allow the...
View ArticleApplications, Applications, Applications
I have been asked by a colleague “Why would someone use Application Virtualization?” You may already know that adopting the likes of Application Virtualization is not an easy task. Many applications...
View ArticleWAN Emulation vs WAN Simulation
One of the topics we are frequently asked is to explain or clarify the difference between WAN Emulation and WAN Simulation. WAN Simulation methodology is a set of theoretical algorithms which are...
View ArticleLoadRunner 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...
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