[April 20, 2012]

SOASTA Brings CloudTest Service to Rackspace OpenStack

SOASTA (News - Alert)(R) Inc., the leader in cloud and mobile testing, today announced the company will support Rackspace's next generation cloud, powered by OpenStack by offering the Rackspace (News - Alert) Cloud as one of the public cloud choices available for the SOASTA Global Test Cloud.

This week, Rackspace announced the availability of its production ready next generation cloud, powered by OpenStack and backed by Fanatical Support®. SOASTA CloudTest provides a Global Test Platform that will use Rackspace's next generation cloud infrastructure to provision thousands of servers and simulate millions of users across the globe to test the production performance of web and mobile applications. SOASTA Global Test cloud gives Developers, Testers, and Operations professionals the ability to analyze real-time test results through integrated dashboards across multiple Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers.

"When provisioning thousand of servers every day, we rely on fast, scalable APIs to ensure optimal performace testing. We are excited to make our service available on the Rackspace's next generation cloud, powered by OpenStack," said Tom Lounibus, CEO of SOASTA. We fully support the OpenStack Community and are excited to see the commercial availability of the OpenStack API. The OpenStack implementation supports our mission to allow customers to test faster and scale reliably so they can release their web and mobile applications sooner."

"OpenStack is developing fast and is now ready for commercial implementation," said John Engates, CTO of Rackspace. "We are excited that a leader in cloud-based performance testing has chosen OpenStack for its efficiency and effectiveness. SOASTA is not the typical user, as they require thousands of Rackspace Cloud Servers across the globe to perform reliably and quickly to conduct the type of real-time, scaled testing they provide."

About SOASTA

SOASTA is the leader in cloud testing. The company's CloudTest products and services leverage the power of cloud computing to quickly and affordably test consumer-facing Web and mobile apps at scale, providing customers with the confidence that their business-critical Web apps will be reliable and scalable, even under extreme loads. SOASTA's customers include many of today's most successful brands, including American Girl, Chegg, Gilt Groupe, Hallmark, Intuit (News - Alert), Microsoft and Netflix. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information about SOASTA, please visit www.soasta.com.

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