thomson reuters: using hp software and wan emulation to test the performance of your applications...
DESCRIPTION
Thomson Reuter’s representatives will describe how they use Shunra’s WAN emulation integration with HP LoadRunner 9.5 to improve the quality of experience of end-users accessing the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. They will review the capabilities of these tools and tell you how they have enhanced IT’s ability to guarantee the availability of production applications used by leading decision-makers in financial and various other professional markets across the globe. And James Nanscawen, director of QA, will explain the importance of assessing network impact on application performance and the value that Thomson Reuters has obtained by integrating WAN emulation into load testing.TRANSCRIPT
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Thomson Reuters: Deploying Applications With ConfidenceAdam ClayVice President of WW Sales at Shunra Software
Rama MandaManager of Test Architecture at Thomson Reuters
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Agenda
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Objectives and Introductions
Trends in Performance Engineering
Case Study: Thomson Reuters
Questions
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Major IT Waves
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Datacenter Consolidation
Cloud Migration
Mobile Deployment
Enterprise Applications
= Greater Dependency on the Network
. . .application performance increasingly unpredictable
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Challenge – Are We Prepared?
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Test Locally
Deploy Globally
Increasing Pressure To Address Problems Early
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A Little Latency. . .A Lot of Impact
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Find Store 1 Sort Results Find Store 2 Data Retrieval Finished
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Local Baseline vs. 25ms LatencyTransaction Response Time (Sec)
Local User Baseline Salt Lake City
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A False Sense of Security?
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Latency and Loss
Latency, Loss and
Bandwidth
Real-world
Seconds
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Legacy Solutions and Compromises
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Stopwatches
Remote Load Generators
Phased Rollouts
Prayer
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Impact of Not Knowing
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Time
Resources – Break Fix
Business Continuity
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What’s Needed
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Integrated Solution
Leverage Existing Scripts
Easy to Use
Diagnostic and Remediating
= Shunra for HP Software™
. . .deploy with confidence
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Load Generators
LoadRunnerController
ApplicationServers
Shunra for HP SoftwareTM
VirtualLondon
VirtualDetroit
Local
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Bandwidth
Utilization
Latency
London UsersTransaction
Response Time
Local UsersTransaction
Response Time
Shunra for HP SoftwareTM
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Managing User Experience at
Thomson Reuters
Rama Manda, Manager of Test Architecture
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Thomson Reuters Case Study
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Background
Challenges
Why Shunra?
Value
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Thomson Reuters - Background
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Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading
source of intelligent information for
businesses and professionals.
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Performance Testing Goals
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Determine end-user experience from remote locations
Ensure business solutions are high-performing
Integrate with lifecycle planning
Make recommendations
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Challenges
Datacenter
Datacenter
Datacenter
Remote site
Remote site
Remote siteRemote siteRemote site
Remote site
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Challenges
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Before AfterTime-consuming
coordination across
remote sites
Global testing conducted
locally
Fixed, permanent testing
network
Flexible testing from any
location; “what-if testing” of
latency, loss, bandwidth
Maintaining remote load
generators
Emulating WAN in lab with
shared infrastructure
Testing only during
network maintenance
windows
Testing is independent of
production network
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Opportunity
Mgmnt
Order
Mgmnt
Billing/Invoicing
&
Account Receivable
Financials
BI
Reporting
Supporting
Systems
Entitlements
LMS
Pro
fessio
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Mark
ets
Corp
ora
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170 MarkView
SRM
BW
eCommerceOTC
B2CCBO
thePoint
FIN
Applications Under Test
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Case Study: SAP BW Reporting
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Objective
• Baseline report for end-user
experience from 13 priority
remote locations
Outcome
• Able to understand performance from all locations
• Tune application and network to meet business
expectations
• Deployed with confidence
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Key Findings
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Infrastructure Breakdown
Bandwidth Analysis
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Why Shunra?
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Understanding end-user experience in remote locations
Avoiding continuous break \ fix cycles
Capacity planning
Pre-deployment analysis
Questions?
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Summary and Thank You
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What Customers Have Told Us
30-Day Trial of Shunra for HP Software
Reception 5:00-8:00 Cinnamon Suite (Room 4101)
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