Shunra has reached an agreement with CA Technologies to incorporate its Shunra NV (network virtualization) product into the CA LISA suite of solutions.
Available directly from CA Technologies, Shunra NV is now being offered as CA LISA Service Virtualization for Networks. Through this OEM agreement CA LISA customers can bring production network conditions into their service virtualization test environments, further improving the accuracy of test results.
With Shunra NV embedded in CA LISA Service Virtualization for Networks, enterprises and service providers can:
- Incorporate production network conditions in test environments to identify poorly performing transactions before deployment, thereby reducing costly post-deployment issues
- Accelerate development and test cycles by improving test accuracy and quickly validate service level adherence
- Improve transaction response times and increase customer satisfaction by resolving performance incidents and optimizing performance levels before end users are impacted
Shunra NV captures and recreates the production network conditions affecting the communication channels that exist between the application, its dependencies and services, and the end users. It enables the test environment to accurately reflect actual production conditions – including bandwidth, latency, jitter, and packet loss – making test results reliably predictive of real-world application behavior.
“As our customers seek to create ever more realistic virtual testing environments, being able to recreate and simulate network behavior is a key element of their success,” said Ruston Vickers, VP of Product Management, Application Delivery at CA Technologies. "Organizations must test earlier and more often in the development life cycle and take into account the myriad constraints that impact end user experience. By virtualizing real-world constraints such as user load, services, and networks in the test lab, our customers can enhance the reliability and predictability of their performance testing efforts leading to faster, higher quality software releases while minimizing costs.”
As applications become increasingly more distributed, the infrastructure supporting those applications necessarily becomes more complex and more reliant on distributed services and networks.
“The typical modern application relies on nearly 40 discrete services,” said Gary Jackson, Shunra CEO. “This makes testing composite applications challenging. Each service communicates over separate networks, often with changing network constraints. Just as third-party services are often not available to testers, the networks they communicate over are not available behind the firewall. Reliably capturing the dynamic conditions which exist across these networks and virtualizing them in the lab is a critical piece of delivering accurate test results.”
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