[February 29, 2012]

Shunra Software Demonstrates Integration Points with HP for its Mobile Performance Platform

Shunra (News - Alert) Software, the industry-recognized authority in network virtualization and application performance engineering, today announced integration with HP load testing and performance technologies in support of the company's mobile performance platform.

Shunra demonstrated this integration in a webinar presented with HP on January 24, 2012, now available on Shunra's website at http://www.shunra.com/resources/on-demand-webinars. The webinar details Shunra's ability to capture real-world mobile network conditions and virtualize those dynamic conditions in a load test environment powered by HP LoadRunner and HP Performance Center.

"By combining Shunra's industry-leading mobile application performance testing solutions with HP's load testing products and HP Application Lifecyce Management (ALM), organizations now have the ability to reduce risk, cost and time, by preventing failed application launches," said Bill Varga, COO, Shunra. "The mobile wave has the power to propel companies and organizations forward, or wreak havoc. With Shunra's vision of a mobile performance platform and our demonstrated integration with HP in mobile application test environments, the risk of mobile failure is greatly diminished."

Shunra's vision on mobile application performance testing includes best practice guidelines in several areas of the testing process: Functional & Device, Networks & Variability, Load & Performance, and Backend Infrastructure and Capacity.

The vision includes Shunra's open approach to technology, making integration with leading mobile test technologies easy. For example, Shunra for HP, a network virtualization and performance testing solution, is embedded in and shipped with both HP LoadRunner and HP Performance Center. Customers benefit by having real-world mobile network conditions incorporated into the load test environment, including virtualization of variable bandwidth, latency, jitter and packet loss.

The integration improves the accuracy and reliability of load test environments, making them more representative of the real world. In addition, customers have the ability to precisely virtualize the real world in the test environment, which means that load and performance test results are more predictive of how an application will actually behave once deployed.

"Testing applications without consideration for the variability and constant changing nature of mobile network conditions is a mistake that organizations cannot afford to make," continued Varga. "The impact of the mobile network is not just felt by the mobile end user; back-end infrastructure and server resources are particularly susceptible to network conditions and the user sessions they support. With Shunra and our partners powering a mobile performance strategy, organizations can take the guesswork out of performance testing and deliver optimized apps without fear of post-deployment failure."

Shunra is actively taking its mobile platform to market, participating in numerous partner-driven events. Shunra will participate with HP at the upcoming Mobile World Congress (News - Alert) in Barcelona, Spain from February 27 to March 1. Shunra will demonstrate its integrated mobile performance capabilities in the HP Mobile booth in Hall 7, 7C37. Shunra will also participate as an exhibitor at HP's premier client event, HP Discover, taking place June 4 - 7 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Shunra is part of the HP Enterprise Management Alliance Program (EMAP), where Shunra has been certified as a Gold Business Partner.

To discover more about Shunra's vision for mobile application performance testing, please visit http://www.shunra.com/mobile-zone.

About Shunra

Shunra is the industry-recognized authority in network virtualization and application performance engineering (APE), and a pioneer in WAN emulation technology. Shunra's 2500 customers include 75 of the Fortune 100 with some of the most complex and sophisticated networks in the world. Shunra's APE solutions discover, predict, emulate and analyze the performance of applications over WAN, Web, Mobile and Cloud networks. Shunra delivers dramatic cost savings through customized performance insight, enabling pre-deployment and post-production remediation and optimization. Customers include Apple, AT&T, Bank of America, Best Buy, Boeing, Cisco Systems (News - Alert), Citibank, eBay, FedEx, GE, IBM, ING Direct, Intel, Marriott, MasterCard, McDonalds, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, Oracle, Pepsi, Pfizer, Siemens, Target, Thomson Reuters, Verizon, Walt Disney (News - Alert) and the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. Shunra is headquartered in Philadelphia and privately held.

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