Reliable cloud computing: Web 2.0 Performance Testing and Scalability

Session Date and Time: Day 2, March 24 2010, 18:00pm EST (3.00PM PST) (45min)
Keywords: Web 2.0, Performance Testing, Scalability, Spike Load Test.
Authors: Neil Ashizawa, HP Software & Solutions.
Abstract: The health and availability of applications running in the cloud is a key concern for organizations today, especially during busy gift-giving holidays such as Father’s Day and Graduation. Both large and mid-sized enterprises need to prepare their web applications for sudden increases in web site traffic to prevent downtime and lost revenue. Why do IT execs and QA managers believe that they can execute a successful spike load test by simply starting a traditional load test, and then ramping up the number of virtual users until they have a large spike load test? The answer is cost and time constraints. HP’s Neil Ashizawa will address how organizations, both large and small, can deliver large load testing to ensure the global-class scale of their applications quickly and cost effectively, even in the most extreme situations.

Ashizawa will discuss three things organizations can implement to successfully perform spike load testing and protect your business and reputation:
1. An elastic test framework which can expand in an on-demand fashion to generate large loads
2. An easy way to create virtual users for both traditional websites and for today’s rich-internet-application technology such as AJAX, Flex and Flash
3. The experience, knowledge and best practices to streamline the large load testing processes to ensure your business outcomes are met.

NEIL ASHIZAWA
Manager, HP SaaS ALM Products and Cloud Solutions, HP Software-as-a-Service
HP Software & Solutions

Neil Ashizawa is manager of HP SaaS Products and Cloud Solutions, Software-as-a-Service for the Software & Solutions organization at HP. In this role, he leads product management across HP SaaS services and has product management responsibility over HP SaaS solutions geared toward helping customers gain business confidence in the cloud.
Ashizawa has more than 12 years of experience and has held several roles at HP and Mercury Interactive Corporation, now part of HP. He worked in Educational Services at Mercury, where he managed all technical courseware development and certification management. Prior to this role, he worked in Professional Services and helped to build initial quickstart and bootcamp models to assist customers to gain immediate value of their functional testing and load testing tools.