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Shunra Takes the Guesswork Out of WAN Application Deployment
Enterprise Management Associates highlights in this report the importance coupled with the advantages of testing application performance with the latest 6.0 version of Shunra’s WAN emulation technology. Shunra’s Virtual Enterprise Suite 6.0 introduces indispensable features that enable a wider IT audience to both save money and time by adding the most value to datacenter consolidation/relocation/virtualization and mobile application rollout.
This excerpt focuses on one of the leading vendors in the report, Shunra and their Virtual Enterprise solution. Click here to read report.
Guide to User Experience Management: How to Pick the Right QoE Solution for You
This EMA Advisory Note is a five page excerpt from a recently published EMA report entitled 'An Adopter's Guide to User Experience Management: How to Pick the Right QoE Solution for You!' (Adopter's Guide). The Adopter’s Guide is specifically designed to help you select the right Quality of Experience (QoE) solution to improve the interactive experience of your application end users based primarily on your functional and business needs, your role, and the constituency (constituencies) you are looking to serve.
This excerpt focuses on one of the leading vendors in the report, Shunra and their Virtual Enterprise solution. Click here to read report.
Shunra Partners with HP, Microsoft to Provide Application Performance Over the Network
Enterprise Management Associates covers Shunra's new partnerships with HP and Microsoft in this Impact Brief. These partnerships provide a new level of software testing capability to developers, Quality Assurance (QA) professionals and application performance engineers using HP and Microsoft solutions. Shunra's VE Desktop Professional generates a test-bed simulation of the enterprise network for detecting potential performance problems and execution bottlenecks before applications are deployed to the wide area network. EMA writes about these capabilities and partnerships, and describes the impact on the market and the development process. Click here to read report.
"EMA sees this capability as being critical to the development process, since today’s applications are network-intensive and performance problems can, and often do, impact user productivity, customer satisfaction, and the cost of doing business." — EMA, Impact Brief, February 24, 2009
Frost & Sullivan Interviews Shunra CTO, Les Murphy
Download this Movers & Shakers Interview of Les Murphy, CTO, Shunra Software by Olga Yashkova, Industry Analyst/Program Leader, Frost & Sullivan. Topics include application performance management and monitoring & test automation industries; current market/technological trends in the test automation and application performance management markets; end-user concerns and how Shunra supports end user's needs and application performance success. Click here to download now.
How to Optimize Applications QoE Before Rollout
"Delivering a high Quality of Experience (QoE) to remote end-users is a critical requirement for enterprises operating in national and global markets. Yet QoE is constantly jeopardized by the need to support a growing range of applications, consolidation projects and IT initiatives. To achieve a high level of predictable QoE requires well integrated real-world testing with detailed performance analysis, coupled with good collaborative processes across the IT organization. Shunra VE 5.0 addresses this need by providing a comprehensive testing solution that combines advanced network simulation with transaction analysis in a manner that can support a wide range of roles from network engineers, to application development and QA testing." Dennis Drogseth, Vice President. (May 2007)
"Shunra VE 4.0 is an elegant combination of innovative technology and real, pragmatic benefits. Shunra VE 4.0 is a versatile and easily deployed solution that can provide IT with clear insights into how new business applications and converging technologies, such as VoIP, will be able to meet service level requirements before deployment. This, when combined with automated insights into capacity requirements, makes Shunra's a distinctive offering in the enterprise management marketplace. Shunra VE 4.0 should appeal not only to IT planners and application developers, but to IT executives seeking an insurance policy to guarantee that application service commitments can be met before embarrassing violations force costly changes in infrastructure and/or application design." Dennis Drogseth, Vice President (February 2006)
Ptak, Noel & Associates
"Networked services and applications have emerged as the most popular solutions architecture in the enterprise today. Distributed solutions, Service Oriented Architectures, IP based services with their striking cost advantage, global partnerships and collaboration place enormous stress on the underlying network infrastructure.
Taking all of these together and you have an operational network environment that can play havoc with networked application performance because of dependencies, interactions, and behavior that cannot possibly be replicated in a development environment. To meet the high expectations and rigorous demands of today's global competition, networked services must be rigorously tested under a range of conditions to assure performance. Accurate physical reproduction of global network conditions is prohibitively expensive in terms of resources and time for even the largest enterprise.
Yet, testing must be done.
Virtually no enterprise has escaped the experience of data center relocation and/or consolidation. As noted above, these can cause tremendous disruption in services even when done in planned stages and even with provision made for extra resources in terms of processor power and bandwidth during transitional periods.
Shunra provides the enterprise with a solution to the testing dilemma with its Shunra VE network simulation product which includes a rich library of operational models in a comprehensive, integrated, easy-to-use automated modeling, analysis and performance evaluation tool. With Shunra's VE 5.0, enterprise IT professionals can use simulations to create, test, and evaluate changes in application architectures, network configurations, and data center setup and locations under wide range of operational conditions." Rich Ptak (April 2007)
Shunra Software Ltd: Recipient of the 2006 Global Frost & Sullivan Award
"The Best Practices that led to Shunra's significant revenue growth are an extensive product portfolio, high-value and easy to use products, technological innovation, excellent customer service, and strategic partnerships. Shunra has many of the competitive factors needed to be successful in the network performance monitoring and management solution market for enterprises. The company has vast experience in this market, and it knows about changing customer needs and requirements. Shunra exhibits strong profitability and margin controls, and its products meet enterprise, ISV/IHV and carriers' requirements, including technology. It is clear that Shunra's spectacular growth is a result of business skill and strategy, and Frost & Sullivan expects this company to continue to succeed in this market in the coming years as well. As a result, Shunra is conferred the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Growth Strategy Leadership in the world network performance monitoring and management solution market for enterprises." Olga Yashkova (January 2007)
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