Anyone planning a move into a cloud environment may be well advised to take a look at iTrinegy’s Cloud in a Box – a pre-deployment service that will show up problems ahead of migration, and allow assessment of its impact on business applications and end-users.
The Cloud in a Box is available as part of iTrinegy’s INE Network Emulator range, and offers a drag-and-drop GUI capability that allows customers to test the performance of applications in real time, regardless of the specific Cloud service being considered.
‘We were increasingly being brought into a customer site after their applications have been moved to the new network [Cloud] to look at performance issues,’ says iTrinegy Product Director, Frank Puranik. ‘Experience shows that applications that have been developed for a LAN can be very poor performing when moved to a WAN environment like the Cloud.
‘When spending money it’s smart to know exactly what will happen to your business applications prior to actual deployment, as retrospective remedial actions can cost companies hundreds or even thousands of pounds and damage reputations. Now we can de-risk these Cloud moves in advance and so ensure the transition goes smoothly.’
The perceived high cost of building a facsimile live network has been a key factor in limiting pre-deployment testing, but iTrinegy’s new system aims to provide an alternative and exhaustive means of testing: ‘Cloud in a box is better than the real network, as you can test all the conditions, in an exact, real-time way, replicating the cloud without waiting for a time when the network is flaky – you can make it flaky at will,’ says Puranik.
‘The reconstruction of any real-world network in a safe but realistic test environment ensures that the applications being built or deployed into the cloud can be thoroughly tested to ensure that they will perform well under all the adverse (or good) conditions experienced in a real customer cloud networked environment. Cloud in a box is a cost-effective alternative in understanding your applications’ performance and seeing how your end users are experiencing them.’
UK based, iTrinegy specialises in the Networked Application Performance Lifecycle, from initial design and development, through testing and QA, to production rollout and on-going performance monitoring.
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