CSC and SOASTA join hands to integrate into CSC's Trusted Cloud

New Delhi: CSC and SOASTA together announced the former will integrate SOASTA CloudTest into CSC's cloud services, testing and development methodology.

SOASTA Cloud Test provides load and performance testing solutions to ensure Web applications and services perform in a highly reliable, scalable and predictable manner. CSC offers Independent Testing and validation services across industry verticals, leveraging its deep domain expertise, global delivery capability and comprehensive portfolio of testing services. CSC also provides “Testing-as-a-Service” (TaaS) within its Trusted Cloud Services offering. Testing-as-a-Service is available on-demand in public, private and hybrid cloud networks to meet customers' business requirements, security needs and regulatory standards.

By combining CSC's global testing services capabilities with SOASTA's leading cloud testing solution, CSC will manage to provide a complete set of testing and accreditation services to all customers globally. The offering will focus on new cloud computing and Web projects. It will also provide existing managed services customers with a new level of performance and reliability.

Regarding this, Ben Pring, Research VP, Gartner said, "Website performance impacts any enterprise that is marketing, selling or processing business using the Web, and yet most companies do not test for Web application reliability and examples of performance issues abound. It has been cost-prohibitive to simulate real world traffic using traditional testing methods. With cloud-based testing, enterprises of all sizes can now affordably test to identify performance issues and validate website reliability.” Personnels from both companies had good things to say regarding each other.

“We are very excited to have CSC as a partner and grow our presence in the global market,” said Tom Lounibos, CEO, SOASTA. “CSC has established strong business relationships with customers across a broad range of industries, an outstanding professional services organization and a commitment to ensure customer success. By leveraging the cloud, CSC customers will be able to launch their Web applications with confidence in their ability to perform as expected,” he believes.

“We are pleased to partner with SOASTA,” said Brian Boruff, VP-Cloud Computing. “The company's technical achievements leveraging the cloud are impressive, as is their clear commitment to ensuring partner success. Our customers depend on us to provide the very best technology. Web application performance is a crucial aspect of our customers' success. SOASTA's cloud testing product line helps us satisfy their needs as well as continue to expand our cloud services offering with a powerful and affordable solution,” he resumed.

Web application performance testing in CSCs Trusted Cloud uses SOASTA CloudTest to leverage the elasticity of the cloud. The CloudTest appliance creates and executes tests in-house, behind the firewall. Tests executed in-house can then be rapidly reused for testing from the cloud.