
SOASTA and New Relic announced their partnership and the integration of New Relic's application performance management solution on SOASTA's CloudTest platform.
Through the partnership, all SOASTA customers receive New Relic Standard free of charge and SOASTA CloudTest Lite is available to all New Relic customers.
Both products are also available on popular developer and cloud platforms including VMware CloudFoundry, CollabNet CloudForge, OpenStack and HP Cloud Services.
The integrated solution gives developers complete visibility into the performance of their web applications throughout the entire application development lifecycle.
Now developers can immediately begin building performance tests to assure the highest test coverage and tune their apps based on deep performance diagnostics to ensure the highest level of application performance and availability, all at no charge.
Together, New Relic and SOASTA CloudTest can be deployed in minutes, enabling users to build and run functional and performance tests of web applications, and then monitor, troubleshoot and tune their applications quickly and easily.
"The integration of New Relic onto the CloudTest platform allows for a seamless flow of communication and quick exchange of information between teams throughout the dev-test-management process," said Tom Lounibos, SOASTA CEO. "Now it has never been easier for organizations to conduct fast, comprehensive real-time tests with visibility into virtually every aspect of the application's performance, so they can release quicker."
"CloudTest is an essential tool for development teams building applications in today's world of rapid deployment cycles, and New Relic is very pleased to be integrated on the platform," said Bill Lapcevic, New Relic's vice-president of business development. "By bringing these two best-of-breed solutions together we’re creating an ideal solution for agile development teams who won’t settle for anything other than top performance and availability."
SOASTA customers can start using New Relic today and New Relic customers can download free CloudTest Lite immediately.
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