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APCO Worldwide — When two major airlines merged they knew that the announcement would spark interest from shareholders, press and customers. To address those questions they created a specific site that, without Cloud Testing, would likely have had problems under the onrush of visitors after the merger was announced.
CACI International Inc — CACI provides professional services and IT solutions for the defense, intelligence, homeland security, and federal civilian government arenas. CACI needs to identify potential bottlenecks in the infrastructure on which they host various applications for its clients, which have the potential to be quite large.
Carlson Marketing — an incentive industry pioneer and one of the largest firms in the business. They are a global marketing services company and when they were spun out of Carlson Companies they needed a new performance testing solution. CloudTest fit the bill.
Crispin Porter + Bogusky — Launching ‘buzz’ and social media campaigns has shifted the way companies spend their ad dollars. Ensuring that the campaign performs well in times of heavy stress is of utmost importance. SOASTA works with CP+B on a regular basis testing campaigns they launch for their clients. Brands include Best Buy, Gap, Old Navy, Dominos, and Cuervo.
Denny’s Corporation — Denny’s came to SOASTA to help identify potential performance problems in advance of a major ad campaign on Super Bowl Sunday. The result: after finding and fixing a few areas of risk, Denny’s experienced a 1,700% increase in traffic to their site on Super Bowl Sunday and cruised across the goal line.
Irdeto — Protecting and managing rich digital content for their clients is what Irdeto is all about. High bandwidth content has implications on performance and Irdeto uses CloudTest to help ensure their customers’ success.
Move.com — provides detailed real estate listings, including new homes for sale, apartments for rent, and a wealth of resources on moving, finance, rentals, and more. In preparation for a GA launch, Move.com tested to see how far they could push their systems before failure, and to tune their leading real estate search platform to handle beyond-worst-case scenarios.
Pictela — Originally came to SOASTA for functional testing, but saw a way to do performance testing without taking on additional workload. Hallmark of this engagement was the quick turnaround — testing the same day the contract was signed. They were impressed with the affordability and signed up for a block of hours for testing throughout the year.
Pittsburgh Foundation — is a non profit that was doing load testing to find bottlenecks in their infrastructure. By testing with CloudTest they found bottlenecks due to their hosting provider’s inability to scale. As a non profit, they were impressed with the affordability of large scale testing — in this case, up to 10K VUs.
REA-Group — Australia’s No. 1 real estate web site regularly tests with CloudTest, simulating real search scenarios at a very high volume of virtual users. They also regularly test their environment from an internal perspective using the CloudTest Appliance. They’ve also used CloudTest to help test disaster recovery.
Schlumberger Limited — Schlumberger launched an internal employee training portal overseas, but had no way of creating a load test that could simulate load from geographic locations outside of the US. Schlumberger harnessed the power of SOASTA’s global testing platform simulating traffic coming from Chennai, India.

