Announcement: HP LoadRunner in the Cloud

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HP ANNOUNCEMENT: LoadRunner in the Cloud

Priya Kothari, Mark Tomlinson

Product Marketing

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LoadRunner in the Cloud

Agenda

Cloud overview

Customer challenges

LoadRunner in the cloud

Demo

Q&A

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CLOUD OVERVIEW

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―Cloud computing is internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like the electricity grid.‖

—Wikipedia

Definition

What is the Cloud?

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Details

What Is the Cloud?

– Large data centers

• Companies such as Amazon, Google, HP, etc

– Dynamic provisioning

• Scalable and often virtualized resources

– Resource sharing

• Time sharing of computing power

– Provider API

• To start, stop, access and configure the virtual servers and storage.

– Billing by usage

• Utility or subscription model

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Characteristics

What Is the Cloud?

– Accessibility

• Available over the network

– Efficiency

• Managed by the provider

– Elasticity

• Can quickly scale up scale down as needed

– Immediacy

• Can be provisioned in a self-service mode without human interaction

– Resource pooling

• Consumers share resources in a multi-tenant model dynamically.

Customer has no control or knowledge over the exact resources

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Benefits

What Is the Cloud?

– Reduce Cap-Ex

• Don’t need to procure permanent resources

– Elastic

• Don’t need to plan for peak-usage scenarios

– Affordable

• Pay per use only

– Instant

• Available on-demand, instantly

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CUSTOMER CHALLENGES

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Scrambling to find testing resources for performance testing

Use Case 1

– Performance testing is done at the end of the lifecycle

– Often done in an ad-hoc, unplanned manner

– You may not have access to testing solutions if not planned

ahead

– Need an on-demand solution!

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Small organization / project does not have budget for testing software

Use Case 2

– Small organizations or projects have small testing budgets

– They may not be able to buy perpetual licenses for testing

needs

– They may buy open source or cheaper testing software that

is inferior to LoadRunner and does not necessarily meet the

needs

– Need an affordable solution!

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Enterprise tester needs to augment existing testing solution

Use Case 3

– Enterprise customer has LoadRunner or Performance Center

in-house

– Tester needs to do some urgent tests, but testing resources

are not available

– Tester needs to augment in-house testing solutions

– Need a flexible, expandable solution!

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Developers doing some performance testing

Use Case 4

– Customer following agile methodologies

– Developers do some initial ―unit‖ performance testing /

component testing

– They need to do testing as soon as they are done writing

code

– They do not have the budget to buy testing solutions

– Need an on-demand, affordable, pay per use solution!

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LOADRUNNER IN THE CLOUD

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LoadRunner in the Cloud

Announcement Overview

HP offers market leading performance testing software, HP LoadRunner, in the Cloud to provide

affordable, on-demand testing solution

– Available on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

– Delivered as an on-demand, self-service, low cost

performance testing solution and provides:

• Affordable hourly rates leveraging market leading technology

• On-demand, pre-installed software for immediate access

• Self-service access to flexible, scalable testing infrastructure

– Makes the market-leading performance testing software

more accessible to businesses of all sizes

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Illustration

LoadRunner in the Cloud

On-Premise Application Under Test

(AUT)

FIREWALL

Tester

Storage

Controller + Vugen + Analysis

Load Generators

FIREWALL

Cloud- BasedApplication Under Test

(AUT)

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Benefits

HP LoadRunner in the Cloud

– On-demand

• On-demand software increases agility in performance testing, even in

unplanned, ad-hoc situations

– Affordable

• Leverage market leading technology with affordable hourly rates to

optimize application performance

– Expandable

• Self-service access to flexible, scalable testing infrastructure – no

waiting for hardware, no capital investment!

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DEMO

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Questions?

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