HP’s SaaS product “Elastic Test Service” to stress test you internet apps for agility
By Tarry Singh at 15 October, 2009, 11:16 pm
Vendors will kill each others attempts to do any cross-selling or selling gear to the not-really-ready-for-the-cloud-yet kind of customers. Imagine if a customer wants to do some massive tests.
Sample Scenario: Nokia wants to test its apps as part of research to investigate its dwindling sales
Say its Nokia who just posted a dismal $800M losses to test as to why the heck aren’t we selling via our website? Well someone at Cisco would want to sell them a UCS box because its cheaper than the traditional several big servers and all the cable-tieup that bogs you down and you lose focus. Nokia R&D team will definitely not have any money to spend even for a Cisco UCS or whatever solution and HP calls them and says : “Hey, just test it all here!”
Your options: Box or No-Box at all?
No matter how intrigued –can’t say enamored as I haven’t seen the UCS product — I maybe of the Cisco’s box but if a no-box option [read: SaaS, somewhere in the Cloud] comes my way, I chose no-box option. Zero box. That’s what a SaaS is! Get used to it, this field is going to get bloodier than you can imagine. And oh by the way, you as a customer will benifit for sure. just keep listening to the bloggers, writers, all it takes is listening and you can come to senses in no time.
Remember: You have to bring down your costs and push up productivity! That is what a True Cloud is going to deliver for you.
Now HP’s story:
Elastic Test is interesting for a number of reasons. First, instead of shelling out big bucks for servers, storage, operating systems, and middleware plus HP’s Performance Center tools for measuring and monitoring application performance, you hand HP your applications and run it in SaaS-mode on HP’s iron running in its own data centers. Application load testing is not something that companies do every day, week, or month, but investing in the iron to do load testing is expensive and, to be frank, a lot of customers don’t do sophisticated load testing to see where their apps will crack.
They over-provision and hope. With the Elastic Test service from HP, you don’t pay for the infrastructure, but rather, you pay for the number of users you want to simulate hitting your applications. You do your tests, you might tweak your code, you test again, you cut HP a check, and you get on with building the infrastructure necessary to support the peaks you think you will have.
The Elastic Test service is interesting in that HP has come up with a way to simulate end users quickly. Basically, it records real end users making use of the Web 2.0 style applications in question with something it calls the Click and Script feature of Elastic Test, and having encapsulated the kinds of transactions that a number of real end users make, it can create end user simulation scripts that it can dial up and down to really push the load on applications running on HP’s infrastructure. If you break something, you break it where it doesn’t matter: in HP’s data center.
Disclosure: I personally advice&assist business leaders such as CIOs, IT Managers across the planet [literally] on such XaaS/Cloud solutions.
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