For the past several years those of us in tech have been in a race to reach a growing global marketplace of consumers newly armed with mobile devices. Mobile apps are different from the previous generation of apps in how they are built (assembled), by the type of dynamic content they contain (video, etc.) and… Read more »
Mobile. Mobile. Mobile.
It will come as no surprise to any of you that after years of projected success, the worldwide mobile app market is actually beginning to reach expectations. With the emergence of a whole new suite of smart devices and development and deployment platforms, everyone is racing to reach consumers through mobile apps. This is welcome… Read more »
I’m Back!
What does a Cloud CEO do for a summer vacation? It’s been a while. According to my new editor-in-chief, Leslie, I have not blogged since mid-summer. I do tweet regularly, though, at @lounibos. The fact that she’s not too happy about means it’s time for us to catch up. What’s been keeping me away from… Read more »
SOASTA Adds Selenium-based Functional Testing to its CloudTest Platform
Extends Selenium with Visual Test Environment, Distributed Testing, and Powerful Analytics STARWEST, Anaheim, Calif. – Oct. 4, 2011 –SOASTA, the leader in cloud-based performance testing, today announced that it has added Selenium-based functional testing capabilities to its award-winning SOASTA CloudTest® platform. SOASTA’s new functional testing solution — available in all CloudTest editions, including its free… Read more »
It’s Time to End Web 2.0’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’
75% of All Web & Mobile Apps Go Live Without Ever Being Scale Tested So why is it that so many web and mobile apps experience some form of performance issues (#FAIL) despite having access and availability to seemingly unlimited amounts of affordable compute power? Well…it’s complicated. First of all, very few of these performance… Read more »
What Keeps a 100-Year-Old Company Feeling Like a Teenager?
This year IBM turns 100 years old, and last week IBM’s “Watson” was named 2011 “Person of the Year” by the Webby Awards. The mere thought of IBM as a start-up (circa 1911) boggles my mind, especially when you consider that this year they reached their all-time high water mark at $205B in market valuation…. Read more »
Will the Cloud Change the Industry Giants or Will the Giants Change the Cloud?
Over the past couple of years or so the technology giants such as IBM, HP, Cisco, Oracle and Microsoft have all announced cloud strategies — all with promises of multi-billion dollar investments backing these strategies up. Some have even predicted that cloud computing is the key to their future over the next ten years. This… Read more »
Web Apps in the future will be full of “Cloud Monkeys”
Adrian Cockroft, chief architect at Netflix, recently posted a very interesting blog about how Netflix has begun to send “chaos monkeys” through their web applications for the sole purpose of creating performance issues. For those of you (non-testers) who are giggling right now, “monkey testing” is a pretty commonly used term in web application testing…. Read more »
Are Enterprise Cloud Platforms Pivoting Vertically?
Up until now Cloud Platforms have typically been defined as Public, Private, or Hybrid. These descriptions, of course, are based almost entirely on the accessibility and ownership of the servers and not by the application in which they are being used. This may all be changing in the coming months, especially for the enterprise market… Read more »
The 2010 Cloud Capacity Surge
SOASTA has held a unique position in the cloud community, allowing us to watch its evolution over the years. As one of only a few enterprise cloud applications, on any given day we may be looking for up to 10,000 cloud servers to simulate millions of virtual consumers for performance testing some of the world’s… Read more »
Consumer Websites Must Stop Cheating on Their Tests
Another week goes by and more leading consumer websites crashed and burned, causing losses in both revenue (millions) and, perhaps more importantly, in consumer confidence in ecommerce. This week fail whales were sited swimming in the oceans of one of the world’s largest retailers, a leading children’s toy manufacturer and the industry’s leading online payment… Read more »
Where have I been? Answer: Customers & Innovation
Last night a friend asked me how long it’s been since I last did a blog post? I suggested a few weeks, but to my horror it has been over 120 days…Yikes! “Hello, McFly…anyone home…start typing?” Let me start by rewinding a bit, as we have some catching up to do. We had another epic… Read more »
Unlocking the Gridlock of Testing from the Cloud
When we started SOASTA it became obvious early on that the requirements for load and performance testing fit the key characteristics of cloud computing: a variable need for scalable compute resources measured in hours, not months or years. Amazon EC2 was the first to provide a platform that dramatically changed the cost equation for these… Read more »
Today’s Business Challenges, Will Not be Solved With Yesterday’s Technology!
Innovation is occurring at 1997 levels again. Fueled by a new type of consumer, global manufacturers are busy retooling their websites and infrastructure to meet what they believe will be a huge post recessionary demand.Enterprises around the globe, many that have been on a ten-year technology hiatus, are suddenly discovering that their consumers are no… Read more »
HP Offers Validation, but No New Innovation To CloudTest Market
Yesterday, and with little fanfare, HP formally announced that LoadRunner, their leading client-server testing tool (circa 1989), which was acquired from Mercury in 2006, will soon be available as a BETA offering in Amazon’s EC2. This news, which has long been expected, is tremendous validation by an industry giant of one of the hottest new… Read more »
Spring Cleaning: Innovate, Validate, or Get Out of the Way!
I overheard an enterprise CIO say this week that the Cloud reminds him of springtime! When I asked why he responded, “Because I’m feeling a need to clean out all my old IT tools and platforms.” Another colleague then said, “The past decade has been like a long IT winter—there’s a lot of cleaning to… Read more »
SOASTA CloudTest: A Game Changer In the World of Testing!
For the past 16 years, Mercury Interactive dominated the enterprise application test market with its QTP and LoadRunner licensed solutions. But these times, they are a changin’! Back in 1994, the IT world was disrupted by an architectural, vendor-driven gold rush called Client Server. New applications, such as Business Intelligence and CRM, emerged every day….and… Read more »
Why Two Leaders in Testing Decided To Partner
Affordable, on-demand access to scalable resources from around the world. Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? It’s the key set of Cloud characteristics, at least at the infrastructure level, that enables SOASTA’s CloudTest to be such a transformative technology for load and performance testing. In addition to the first real-time OLAP engine for performance testing, highlighted… Read more »
Will Social Media Drive Enterprise Cloud Adoption?
The typical enterprise marketing or ecommerce web site requires approximately 5-20 servers to handle daily user activity. They handle traffic from (depending on the type application and profile of the company) between 2,000 and 6,000 concurrent users on a daily basis. However these times, they are a changing, as enterprises around the world begin to… Read more »
The Cloud Power Surge
Access to infinite compute power is one of cloud computing’s more outlandish and yet most impactful visions. After three years in the Cloud, are we any closer to infinite compute power? Probably not! But some recent developments seem to suggest that real progress is being made in expanding the compute capacity of the Cloud. Today,… Read more »
