High Tech

BloomEnergy — Introducing a product on 60 Minutes and then putting a count down clock on your website that says you’re going live 3 days later is inviting a huge spike in traffic. That’s what Bloom Energy did and, they used CloudTest to gain the confidence they could handle it.

CA Technologies — CA Technologies uses CloudTest to optimize the performance and delivery of its SaaS solutions, which range from infrastructure management to project and portfolio management offerings.

Day Software, Inc. — Having a terrific Content Management System has made Day a success. But as the software is customized the opportunity to impact performance grows. With CloudTest, Day is able to establish a baseline of performance and provide their customers with a way to test their implementations.

CISCO — the Flip division wanted to test the performance capability of a new enterprise data center prior to launch at a target bandwidth for a specified duration. Testing was a success, as we found three critical issues that would have otherwise gone undetected and caused problems during the launch.

Greenbutton — provides a seamless interface to cloud computing platforms by off-loading processor-intensive tasks directly from the desktop application. As part of the Azure Certification Program, SOASTA tested to 10,000 simultaneous users and certified Greenbutton’s plugin for Autodesk Maya in the “World-Class” range for sub-second performance of this 3D graphics rendering engine, setting the standard for future plugins as well as compute-and-data-intensive cloud computing applications.

Lenovo — Before launching its new online store and ecommerce platform Lenovo needed to be certain its new offering would be resilient and scalable enough to withstand huge volumes of online visitors, not to mention multiple and simultaneous application downloads. IBM’s Global Business Services, using SOASTA’s CloudTest, was able to conduct realistic performance testing within a compressed testing schedule.Read more

Microsoft — Using the Azure platform to generate load, Microsoft tested the Office.com website using CloudTest. “As a result, we are more confident than ever before about our domestic scalability capabilities.” Read more

Netcraft IT — Understanding the limits of your infrastructure is critical for planning. With the help of SOASTA, Netcraft was able to see how thir site responded to sudden spikes in traffic and where on the site they were most likely to find latency.

SAP — SAP, a public proponent of Cloud Computing for Product Testing, uses CloudTest to regularly validate the production scalability and performance of SAP technologies and platforms.

SuccessFactors — SuccessFactors uses CloudTest to deliver world-class performance for its cloud-based business execution software to millions of users around the world.

Symantec — SOASTA has taken performance testing to the Cloud…and now Symantec has taken anti-virus applications to the Cloud. But how to test them? CloudTest is used to ramp users, which identified the relationship between users and send rates and yielded a large number of errors that Symantec was able to address before going live.

Tarsin — eCards have become a common alternative to snail mail cards and their use grows each year. Tarsin provides a way for well-wishers to send cards from their mobile phones. Working with SOASTA, Tarsin used CloudTest to make sure they could deliver on major holidays, such as Valentine’s Day.

Vovici — Using a slow ramp with real world delays, Vovici was able to handle their initial traffic goals without a problem. When hit with a spike test they discovered where the likely sources of stress are and gained insight into how long it would take to recover. Knowledge is power!