NEW YORK, March 11 /PRNewswire/ --
- New Version Makes it Easier Than Ever for Multiple Teams to Develop,
Test and Deploy 'Network-Aware' Applications that Dramatically Improve the
End-User Experience and Reduce Support Issues
Shunra Virtual Enterprise (www.shunra.com), the world's leading provider
of network emulation solutions, today announced version 4.0 of the Shunra
Virtual Enterprise (VE) Desktop Professional WAN emulation solution. A
component of the award-winning Shunra VE suite of application and network
performance solutions, VE Desktop Professional 4.0 enables users to test
application performance under a variety of existing and potential network
conditions, directly from the desktop. This new Windows-based version adds
critical customer-driven features, including: integration with HP LoadRunner
and QuickTest Professional (QTP) load tools, a thorough application analysis
module, and a robust testing and reporting repository.
This product launch now enables Shunra customers to fully integrate
real-world WAN conditions into existing testing processes at each stage of
the application development lifecycle. The approach used by VE Desktop
Professional to proactively test and optimize applications on an emulated WAN
specifically during the Development and Quality Assurance phases of the
lifecycle confirms a best practice that has been validated by both customers
and market analyst firms. With the benefit of increased application
deployment success and reduced post-production support and troubleshooting,
companies are more actively adapting this best practice approach. With a
fully distributed software solution -- spanning all phases of application
development -- Shunra now removes the technical hurdle and makes it easier
than ever for end-users to accomplish the common sense approach used by
Shunra customers world wide: building applications using actual network
conditions.
Wyeth, a global leader in pharmaceuticals, consumer health care products,
and animal health care products, has deployed Shunra to ultimately ensure
applications perform as expected over the WAN. "VE Desktop Professional was
extremely easy to integrate with our HP LoadRunner and QTP tests," said Ming
Liang, Automation Test Engineer at Wyeth. "The ease of integration and
automatic storage of results were major benefits that helped us understand
the network impact on our applications quickly and then share our results
with others."
"A few years ago we developed our desktop solution to enable remote users
of the centralized network performance testing labs to access our application
performance technology. Over the past few years the profile of the are mote
users' has changed," said Thomas Charlton, Shunra CEO. "The demand is now
coming from Development and QA professionals who are interested in
understanding how the network will impact the code they are developing or the
applications they are testing. This new release of our desktop offering
represents a product that still meets the needs of performance testing labs,
our historical buyer, but in addition adds enterprise desktop deployment and
functionality to support those in Development and QA. Different buyers with
different requirements and one goal -- to understand how the network and
applications will impact each other prior to production."
Shunra VE Desktop Professional 4.0 enables application developers and QA
groups to test applications or code under a variety of current and potential
network conditions, including bandwidth, latency, and packet loss, on an
emulated WAN. It enables IT team members to see the impact that applications
and the network have on each other during the development and QA stages of
the application lifecycle and resolve, before deployment, any issues that are
uncovered. This mitigates the risk of network performance problems caused by
applications and end user dissatisfaction if these problems occur.
"With the growing complexity of enterprise applications and services, the
ability to test network performance as early as possible in development is
more essential than ever," said Olga Yashkova, Analyst, Test & Measurement
Practice with analyst firm Frost and Sullivan. "By empowering application
developers and quality assurance professionals with a desktop version of
their market leading WAN emulation tool, Shunra is not only answering the IT
organization's call for increased synergies, they will ultimately help
organizations save untold time and money."
New to Shunra VE Desktop Professional version 4.0
-- Load tool integration with HP's Performance Center, Quality Center,
LoadRunner, and QTP
-- Runtime and offline data displayed in easy-to-read reports; easily
archive and export test results
-- Silent install feature that allows rapid and automatic enterprise
deployment and installation by network administrators without end-user
interaction
-- Virtual machine support allows all VE Desktop Professional components
to run in VMware environments
-- Test plan integration, including business processes and network
scenario files
-- Redesigned user interface that enhances ease-of-use for those with
limited network knowledge
VE Desktop Professional is available now for all geographic regions. A
trial version is available at http://www.shunra.com or by contacting Shunra
at +1-877-474-8672.
Contact Shunra for detailed pricing information and active promotions
that allow customers to get started quickly with minimal investment.
About Shunra
Shunra Virtual Enterprise is the market leader in WAN emulation solutions
for application performance testing throughout the entire application
development lifecycle. Shunra's award-winning solutions enable development,
quality assurance, pre-deployment and operations teams to create an exact
replica of their production environment or design what-if network scenarios;
allowing them to predict exactly how applications or infrastructure changes
will perform in any networked environment-before rollout. Shunra's solutions
and services are typically deployed in projects including data center
consolidation; application performance readiness testing; VoIP testing;
website testing and WAN optimization technology testing.
Shunra's solutions and services are used by thousands of customers
worldwide. Clients include 3M, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, EMC, FedEx,
General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly Services, Merrill Lynch, Motorola,
Nestle, Pitney Bowes, and Vodafone. Shunra has offices in New York City,
Philadelphia, Israel, and the UK. Shunra is also supported through a global
network of channel partners. For more information on Shunra, please visit
www.shunra.com.
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