SOASTA

Overview

At a recent cloud computing conference, one of the keynote speakers asked how long cloud computing has been around. Most answered a year or two; the correct answer was 10 years with the launch of Salesforce.com. And while many associate cloud computing with Salesforce or Amazon, on-demand CRM, or servers and storage by the drink, there are other areas perfectly suited to the dynamics of cloud computing.

One of those areas is application load and performance testing. Traditionally, this has been done at great expense (especially when testing thousands of users) due to the cost of software and the hardware to support it. Other issues like resource availability only added to the challenges. With the growth of the the web from popular web sites to web-enabled applications, the need for testing has skyrocketed.

SOASTA fits this sweet spot by delivering a cloud-based load and performance testing platform customers can tap into when they need to, without incurring the cost and time associated with typical test environments. Companies can test their web applications and cloud-based services, from deployment through production, identify performance issues and quickly fix them. SOASTA breaks new ground with on-demand, automated, browser-based testing that makes it a natural for cloud computing. Their list of customers is proof of that.

Value Proposition

SOASTA CloudTest changes the game for load and performance testing. Because it's delivered on-demand, customers can access it when they need it, from wherever they need to, and pay for only the resources consumed. It eliminates the need for costly, shrink-wrapped software and the infrastructure to support it. If users want push the scalability of their app, they can easily requisition more resources to do that. Performance testing is "in the cloud" giving users a realistic simulation of how their application will act in a real-world, production environment.

Products & Services

• SOASTA CloudTest On-Demand is software as a service for load and performance testing of web applications, web sites and cloud-based services. Users can select the browser and operating envionment of their choice and test applications regardless of the web protocol used. Integrated analytics allow end-users to quickly spot a failure and drill down to resolve it. Resources can be monitored across all tiers of the application, along with other components in the network. It can handle complex and very large results because it is memory-based with persistence to disk.
• SOASTA CloudTest Appliance packages up their on-demand solution into an integrated load testing environment that is delivered as a server appliance for use behind the corporate firewall. Also works within a VMware or Xen-based virtualization environment.