Micro Focus unveils SilkPerformer CloudBurst

Micro Focus announced the availability
of SilkPerformer CloudBurst, a peak demand load testing capability,
based on Micro Focus Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) technology.
CloudBurst extended Micro Focus' industry-leading load and
performance testing solution SilkPerformer out to the cloud. With
CloudBurst, SilkPerformer enabled testing organizations to easily
manage large load tests that emulate hundreds of thousands of users
from multiple global points of presence and to quickly diagnose and
resolve discovered issues.

“Delivering industrial strength peak
load testing capabilities, and high flexibility for both on-premise
and cloud-based applications, we believe this will in turn drive
smoother and higher quality software applications deployments from
India. This unique testing tool came on time to help both customer
and partner organizations to take advantage of benefits of cloud
technologies to drive higher RoI and business efficacies,” said
Ashish Masand, Country GM, Micro Focus India.

As organizations develop web
applications that will be used by many thousands of users worldwide,
traditional load testing methods have fallen short. These methods
require far too much hardware and are not able to scale to meet the
demands of today's web applications. SilkPerformer CloudBurst
utilizes the cloud to meet these resource demands using a flexible,
pay-as-you-go, consumption-based pricing model.

By extending SilkPerformer's
on-premise model with cloud load-generation technology, CloudBurst
enables customers the flexibility to drive load from either
on-premise or in the cloud or both at the same time. This model also
has the advantage of being able to monitor the underlying systems and
provide performance diagnostics with one integrated product.

In order to handle the complexity of
today's web 2.0 applications, Micro Focus SilkPerformer CloudBurst
also delivers a new generation of load-generation technology called
browser-driven load testing, which cuts scripting and script
maintenance time in half and more accurately emulates end-user loads
on Web 2.0 applications.

“With CloudBurst, SilkPerformer has
become a hybrid on-premise and on-the-cloud product, giving the
customers the advantage of being able to load test all of their
applications whether they are Internet facing or internal. They can
mix-and-match permanent or consumption-based licensing models to meet
their needs and have an integrated solution for driving loads and
diagnosing performance problems,” said Rich Novak, President and GM
- Application Management and Quality Division, Micro Focus.

“SilkPerformer CloudBurst allows us
to help customers drive continuous quality assurance methods in terms
of performance testing. The ability to test from anywhere to anywhere
and to easily and quickly harness the resources needed to drive loads
allows performance testing to be accomplished earlier in the life
cycles and leveraged more often. That is what Micro Focus'
continuous quality assurance is all about, eliminating defects
earlier in the development lifecycle at less cost.”