10 Top Predictions for 2012
What is the IT crystal ball telling you about what’s hot in 2012? Shunra’s CEO Gary Jackson shares his 10 – no make those 11 – top projections in the IT world for this new year. It’s a tough market out there with the economy still muddling, but nonetheless, users expect faster responses and greater [...]
19. December 2011
Real-world Performance Testing Explained
I have heard every new generation of performance testers debate the same old things: What's the difference between load and stress testing? What's the definition of performance testing vs. load testing? What are all the different types of performance testing and when to conduct them? How is performance engineering different from performance testing?
19. December 2011
Just a Second
1001, 1002, 1003, 1004…. That didn’t take much time, what could have happened? Actually when it comes to mobile websites, those few seconds can have a major impact on your revenue. Look what happens to mobile users when a minimal delay in response time is introduced. How many users will leave a mobile site with [...]
19. December 2011
SSL: Addressing Data Security in Application Performance Testing
Federal organizations alike expend great effort to ensure the security and integrity of their digital data. When it comes to application testing and the ability to ensure applications will perform when deployed to the real-world, it is necessary to bring real-world conditions into the test lab. But, how can this be done with confidence in data security?
23. May 2011
APM is Broken
…or at least it’s not delivering on its promise of improving performance The value of Application Performance Management (APM) is perceived as “less than fair.” Over 80% of large and mid-sized organizations worldwide have made multi-million dollar investments in APM solutions with the expectation that these capabilities would reduce their production outages, quickly pinpoint the [...]
21. October 2010
Getting Accurate Results from Scalability Testing
None of us want our sites to crash like the Chase site outage in mid September. I’m not privy to the details of that site crash, but I can tell you that many sites degrade under peak user traffic unexpectedly and eventually crash. Why? It’s often incorrectly performed scalability tests. Over the years, I’ve met [...]
29. September 2010
CA & Hyperformix – How accurate is your Predictive IT Management?
Shunra and HP provide more accuracy to Hyperformix Capacity Planning
3. May 2010
How Shunra can help Utilities to deploy Smart Grid
During the last couple of weeks I had the opportunity to meet with a couple of companies looking to develop applications for Smart Grid management. The newest trend in power distribution is to build systems to allow for ongoing monitoring of both consumption and generation of power by individual home users. This system would facilitate [...]
23. March 2010
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 [...]
12. March 2010
The FCC Invites You to Check How Slow Your Internet Access Is
The FCC just released a set of tools designed to test a user connection to the Internet,both for PC platforms (works on IE and Firefox) and applets for Iphone and other smart phones. Just access www.broadband.gov and you will be prompted to review the national plan to deploy broadband and invited to test your own [...]
5. March 2010
Netflix Survey Hints at Iphone Streaming App
Despite Netflix’s CEO comments in a recent interview to Reuters, it is apparent that the online/rental primer distributor of movies in the US is planning to release a new service targeting, yes, you guessed correctly… millions of Iphone users. Netflix is distributing among thousands of its subscribers an online survey (see below) to float the [...]
24. February 2010
Wi-Fi turns School’s Buses into Study Halls
A pilot is now under way at one of Arizona’s school districts, where a couple of school buses are being equipped with an innovative Wi-Fi technology, allowing students to log into the Internet and start their homework while on route. For years, students at this district, outside Tucson, not unlike millions of students in the [...]
19. February 2010
FCC to Propose Faster Broadband Speeds
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog dealing with a global study of Internet speed, where it was reported that the US is one of the few countries where the Internet is actually slowing down. On February 17, the Chairman of the FCC (Federal Communication Commission), Julius Genachowski, proposed a decade long program [...]
4. January 2012