Cloud Computing Is a Game-Changer
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SOASTA CloudTest with BrowserFarm functionality is available now.
For the next 90 days SOASTA customers can run a 500 browser user test
for $500, the company said.
On Feb 18, SOASTA announced its CloudTest Global Platform, which
enables enterprises to simulate Web traffic and conditions by
leveraging the elasticity and power of cloud computing. This platform
enables cross-cloud testing on today's leading cloud platforms such as
Amazon EC2, Rackspace, 3Tera AppLogic and Enomaly.
The CloudTest Global Platform leverages SOASTA's CloudTest On-Demand
services and enables load generation from virtually thousands of
servers from more than 15 locations around the world.
"Because the Web is not a static platform, it's virtually impossible
to simulate real Web conditions in an internal test lab or proprietary
network," Lounibos said. "By leveraging the cloud, we use the Web as a
platform to test Web applications and networks and are uniquely able to
provide the most accurate representation of real world Web conditions.
Two years from now, we see the cloud as the only viable platform for
the load and performance testing of Web systems. Cloud computing has
forever changed how we test our Web applications and networks."
Chris Roe, chief technology officer of QTRAX, an online music company,
said, "Having the SOASTA CloudTest Global Platform available to us to
simulate how the Web really works is amazing. We have done tests in the
last several months that I could only have imagined, let alone afford,
just six months ago. Cloud computing is definitely changing how we test
our Web sites forever."
Patrick Kerpan, CTO at CohesiveFT,
which provides a software assembly solution for virtual and cloud
computing environments, said, "We like SOASTA - they are one of our
partners in the cloud ecosystem. This is just a great example of why I
say cloud computing is 'cloud computing gone through the looking
glass.' You just couldn't do that kind of thing quickly, well or
affordably before clouds like EC2 [Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud] and
innovators like SOASTA. The CIO's who make use of these capabilities
quickly are going to get a lot of good stuff done for their companies."
Meanwhile, Lounibos said SOASTA competes with commercial products
such as Hewlett-Packard's LoadRunner and Borland's Silk. "However, they
are not cloud-based as we are," he said. "We are also 80 percent less
expensive," he added.
"We partner with cloud platform vendors like Amazon, Rackspace, etc.
to generate the load we test against an app," Lounibos said. "We
consider ourselves 'cloud agnostic.' With this announcement we enable
'cross cloud' testing....drawing virtual servers multiple cloud
platforms at locations around the world to better simulate global
traffic and Web conditions against a site. We also partner with Savvis,
etc., on the distribution side."
And Lounibos said SOASTA will support the Microsoft Azure cloud offering when it becomes available.
