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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

DemoQ&A


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CLOUD OVERVIEW


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Cloud computing is internet-basedcomputing, whereby shared resources,

software and information are providedto 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 Dont need to procure permanent resources

Elastic

Dont need to plan for peak-usage scenariosAffordable

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 testingneeds

They may buy open source or cheaper testing software thatis inferior to LoadRunner and does not necessarily meet theneeds

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 Centerin-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 writingcode

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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Announcement Overview

HP offers market leading performance testingsoftware, 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 softwaremore accessible to businesses of all sizes


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Illustration


On-PremiseApplicationUnder Test

(AUT)

FIREWALL

Tester

Storage

Controller +Vugen +Analysis

LoadGenerators

FIREWALL

Cloud- BasedApplicationUnder 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 nowaiting for hardware, no capital investment!


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DEMO


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Questions?


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To learn more on this topic, and to connect with your peers after

the conference, visit the HP Software Solutions Community:

www.hp.com/go/swcommunity


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