HP ANNOUNCEMENT: LoadRunner in the Cloud

Priya Kothari, Mark Tomlinson

Product Marketing

2010 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

Agenda
LoadRunner in the Cloud

Cloud overview

Customer challenges
LoadRunner in the cloud Demo
Q&A
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CLOUD OVERVIEW

What is the Cloud?

Definition

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

What Is the Cloud?

Details

Large data centers

Companies such as Amazon, Google, HP, etc

Dynamic provisioning

Scalable and often virtualized resources

Time sharing of computing power To start, stop, access and configure the virtual servers and storage. Utility or subscription model

Resource sharing

Provider API

Billing by usage

What Is the Cloud?

Characteristics

Accessibility

Available over the network

Efficiency

Managed by the provider

Can quickly scale up scale down as needed Can be provisioned in a self-service mode without human interaction Consumers share resources in a multi-tenant model dynamically. Customer has no control or knowledge over the exact resources

Elasticity

Immediacy

Resource pooling

What Is the Cloud?

Benefits

Reduce Cap-Ex

Dont need to procure permanent resources

Elastic

Dont need to plan for peak-usage scenarios

Pay per use only Available on-demand, instantly

Affordable

Instant

CUSTOMER CHALLENGES

Use Case 1
Scrambling to find testing resources for performance testing

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!

Use Case 2
Small organization / project does not have budget for testing software

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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Use Case 3
Enterprise tester needs to augment existing testing solution

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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Use Case 4
Developers doing some performance testing

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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Announcement Overview
LoadRunner in the Cloud

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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LoadRunner in the Cloud

Illustration
Controller + Vugen + Analysis Storage

FIREWALL

Load Generators

Tester

FIREWALL

On-Premise Application Under Test (AUT)

Cloud- Based Application Under Test (AUT)

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HP LoadRunner in the Cloud

Benefits

On-demand

On-demand software increases agility in performance testing, even in unplanned, ad-hoc situations Leverage market leading technology with affordable hourly rates to optimize application performance Self-service access to flexible, scalable testing infrastructure no waiting for hardware, no capital investment!

Affordable

Expandable

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DEMO

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Questions?

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www.hp.com/go/swcommunity
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