In a move that removes the limits from free load testing, Web Performance,
Inc. has released Load Tester LITE™, a free version of its popular Load
Tester PRO™ 5 software. This new version can run test cases with up to
1,000,000 virtual users at no cost from user-hosted servers, or from cloud
servers starting at just $1 per hour.
Load Tester LITE™ offers a number of features available in the company’s
Load Tester PRO™ 5 software. But while Load Tester PRO™ 5 automates load
testing on dynamic sites, the LITE™ version is designed to test the
fundamental aspects of website performance that are usually overlooked,
including raw bandwidth, firewall and load balancer throughput, and
especially single page load times.
"Recently one of our clients got listed on the Drudge Report and a single
page got millions of hits in a short period of time before the site crashed,"
expl... (more)
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing
comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today
announced at this gathering of infrastructure professionals from around the
world that an unprecedented number of the highest-ranking ENR Top Design
Firms rely on the ProjectWise system of servers and services for work sharing
and substantive collaboration. In accordance with Engineering News-Record’s
ranking of the 500 largest U.S.-based designs firms published April 23, 2012,
ProjectWise is the system of choice for:
24 of the ENR Top 2... (more)
Okay – this is easy… or is it?
Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de
facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time,
everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated
that they want to be a true standard. Are we reallyIn fact, they have
played quite the coy game and kept silent luring potential competitors into a
false sense of complacency.
Amazon has licensed their APIs to Eucalyptus under what I and others broadly
assume to be a a hard and fast restriction to the enterprise private cloud ... (more)
HP have joined the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and released
their HP Cloud service in public beta. Here’s the announcement press
release. The services on offer are:
Available Now as Public Beta
Compute – on-demand server instances. Cloud Object Storage – object-based
storage using RESTful APIs. Content Delivery Network – local distribution
of web content.
Still in Private Beta
Cloud Block Storage – persistent data for compute images Relational
Database for MySQL – managed cloud databases
There’s also the HP Identity Service for managing key & token access
managem... (more)
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), on Monday
launched support for dynamic content in Amazon CloudFront. This new
capability gives AWS customers a simple, cost-effective way to improve the
performance, reliability and global reach of their website by using Amazon
CloudFront to deliver all their content, including the dynamic portions of
their site that change for each end-user. Amazon CloudFront works seamlessly
with dynamic applications running in Amazon EC2, without any custom coding or
proprietary configurations, making the service simple to dep... (more)
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