Shunra and Mercury Interactive team to forecast and optimize application performance.Shunra Software has announced that it is teaming with Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. HP Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive) is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard that is a market leader in automated software quality assurance and offers products in other areas such as diagnostics, (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :MERQ MERQ Mercury Interactive Corp (stock symbol) ) to integrate its Wide Area Network (WAN) emulation technology with Mercury Interactive's industry leading load testing software Software that tests a system's ability to handle a heavy workload. The software simulates multiple transactions or users interacting with the computer at the same time and provides reports on response times and system behavior. . As a result of this jointly developed integration, Shunra will offer Shunra\Forecaster, which accurately predicts the end-user experience for complex business applications over the WAN, enabling companies to quickly identify and resolve poor performance--be it in the network or the application infrastructure--before it can impact the business. Additionally, Mercury Interactive will provide WAN emulation capabilities in its load testing software. "Given the inherent complexity of wide-area networks Wide-area networks Communication networks that are regional, nationwide, or worldwide in geographic area, with a minimum distance typical of that between major metropolitan areas. Smaller networks include metropolitan and local-area networks. it is nearly impossible to test and determine actual performance and stability, prior to deployment, without emulation," said Jonathan Rende, vice president of product marketing at Mercury Interactive. "Integrating WAN emulation and load testing Load testing is the process of creating demand on a system or device and measuring its response. In mechanical systems it refers to the testing of a system to certify it under the appropriate regulations (LOLER in the UK - Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment technologies enhances the testing process and will allow customers to effectively measure, maximize and manage the performance of IT-enabled business processes for users in remote locations." Shunra also announced that it has joined Mercury Interactive's Technology Alliance Program, a dynamic ecosystem of business technology optimization Business Technology Optimization (BTO), is an enterprise software product category focused on helping businesses ensure that every dollar invested in information technology, every resource allocated, and every application in development or production meets business goals. vendors. Through the Technology Alliance Program, Mercury Interactive partners with leading vendors whose products and services can help its customers get the most performance, availability and reliability from their applications and IT infrastructure. "Together, Mercury Interactive and Shunra Software offer companies the products and expertise that allow them to harness their technology to maximize business performance, mitigate risk and minimize costs," said Benny Daon, chief executive officer at Shunra Software. "Shunra focuses exclusively on making our customers successful, and partnering with Mercury Interactive, the leader in business technology optimization, greatly serves our mission." Shunra\Forecaster integrates Shunra's award-winning WAN emulation product, Shunra\Storm, with Mercury Interactive's powerful load testing software, LoadRunner and Astra LoadTest, enabling IT professionals to emulate the real network topology See topology. and conditions that cannot be brought into the lab, and the multitude of end-users accessing the application from various locations worldwide. The combined emulation of the network and user load allows Shunra\Forecaster to determine the actual network performance and its impact on end-user response times, graph baseline performance information, and evaluate SLAs. An appliance-based product, Shunra\Storm recreates the network topology in the lab and enables network managers to evaluate how applications will actually perform in real-life under a wide range of network configurations--from slow modem connections, through high latency satellite links and gigabit connections--prior to deployment. Shunra\Forecaster is available immediately. Shunra Software will demonstrate Shunra\Forecaster at the 2002 Mercury Interactive Worldwide User Conference, in booth 110. In addition, Benny Daon, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Shunra Software will present a conference session entitled "Ensuring Applications are WAN Ready" on Thursday, October 3rd, at 4:45 pm. Shunra Software Ltd. is the only company to recreate a true-to-life Wide Area Network (WAN) environment in the lab, to determine the actual performance of even the most complex IP-based applications, technologies and services. Shunra Software's award-winning products take the risk out of deployment, allowing developers, network managers and QA teams to translate the power of performance prediction In computer science, performance prediction means to estimate the execution time or other performance factors (such as cache misses) of a program on a given computer. It is being widely used for computer architects to evaluate new computer designs, for compiler writers to explore into business success, cost savings and resource optimization. Among the over 800 leading enterprises and technology vendors worldwide using Shunra Software's products are: Alcatel, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, FedEx, First Union National Bank, General Electric, General Motors, JP Morgan, Microsoft, Motorola, Nortel, Pitney Bowes, and Sun Microsystems. Shunra Software's US headquarters are located in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , and the Company maintains sales offices throughout North America, and supports a global network of distributors. |
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