SOASTA provides an on-demand cloud testing service called CloudTest that allows companies to test the performance of their web applications and websites. CloudTest uses a global test cloud to simulate real-world traffic at large scales. It offers turnkey load and performance testing without requiring companies to purchase software or provision their own hardware. CloudTest provides real-time metrics and analytics to help companies identify and address performance issues.

1. Performance Intelligence: Actionable Information for Web Application Reliability
The CloudTest Paradigm Shift Web-scale Cloud Testing Service
Cloud Computing has enabled a new way of
On-Demand and Turnkey - SOASTA builds the
testing. One that meets today’s growing web
tests, provisions the environment, generate the
dependency and requirements for improved
load and our experienced Performance
reliability and performance. Where testing was
Engineers work with you to analyze the results.
once considered a one time event, it has now
become necessary to test website performance
Global Test Cloud - Delivers an unparalleled
on an ongoing basis as user traffic continues to
ability to scale to 10s of millions of concurrent
grow. CloudTest uniquely uses the web to test
users from the world within minutes, testing
the web for the most accurate representation of
sites in the Cloud or behind the firewall.
real-world traffic and usage.
Cost-effective - Our pay-as-you-go service
SOASTA CloudTest On-Demand is a turnkey
model eliminates software and hardware costs
solution that enables companies to quickly and
and the need to build and manage a test
affordably leverage the Cloud for load and
infrastructure.
performance testing of their websites and
applications. With CloudTest, there is no need
to buy software, provision hardware or train Performance Intelligence Dashboard - SOASTA
valuable resources to build and execute tests. CloudTest provides you with real-time,
interactive metrics and analytics of massive
data sets, giving you the actionable information
SOASTA CloudTest On-Demand provides the
necessary to pinpoint and fix issues as tests are
ability to simulate real-world conditions, no
being run.
matter what the scale. The distributed testing
architecture enables the testing of every layer
of a website, Web application or service. It
“All we had to do was give SOASTA our URL, let
delivers value as the test is running through them know what we wanted to test, and SOASTA
CloudTest Analytics, scales seamlessly up or took care of the rest. Within the first hour we
down with testing needs, and does not require started seeing results and were able to
troubleshoot our network and application in real
investment in a cost prohibitive testing time. It was easy, it was affordable and it was
infrastructure. fast.”
Osman Rashid, Chegg CEO

2. A unique Global Test Cloud
The Global Test Cloud enables companies of all sizes to simulate Web traffic and
conditions for load and performance testing Web applications and consumer-facing
websites by leveraging the elasticity and power of Cloud Computing. This platform
enables cross-cloud testing from today’s leading cloud providers delivering the most
comprehensive and affordable global testing solution available.
Companies concerned about variable and spiked Web traffic can easily simulate, under
real-world conditions, changing volumes-whether it means millions of users in a short
burst of time, or simultaneous users originating from New York, London, and Hong Kong
all hitting the same application at the same time.
For many of SOASTA’s customers, the emulation of real world Web conditions from
different geographies, different time zones, and at different levels of scale, has become
increasingly important. Accurately measuring response time from various locations and
balancing the load when using content data networks, such as Akamai or Amazon’s
CloudFront, requires the generation of load to match, and often exceed, the expected
activity on the site. Simulating real world traffic at scale ultimately builds confidence in
performance.

3. A single view of production performance
Built from the ground up by the SOASTA engineering team, with over 20 years of Business
Intelligence experience, CloudTest Analytics leverages SOASTA’s real-time OLAP engine to
provide the actionable Performance Intelligence necessary to allow testers to drill into
live data while tests are running to pinpoint performance bottlenecks and potential areas
of stress in a web application.
SOASTA’s interactive dashboard displays a single, consolidated view of the important
metrics impacting your website. During the test, we collect up to terabytes of monitored
data in real-time, using existing monitor or our own. We dynamically isolate
performance, latency, network, server and application issues, providing guidance for your
team to focus on and fix problems, often on the spot.

4. SOASTA for CloudTest On-Demand Services
Engagement Pricing and availability
After a brief launch meeting to understand SOASTA CloudTest On-Demand is an hourly
your performance objectives, SOASTA’s service that includes all test technology and
CloudTest team leverages our browser-based cloud hardware, real time analysis, cloud
test application to record and build your user computing charges and a CloudTest engineer
scenarios in a fraction of time it’s taken in the for execution.
past. We then deploy the SOASTA Global Test
Cloud, provisioning up to thousands of globally CloudTest sessions up to 10,000 Virtual Users
distributed test servers. With CloudTest On- start at very low cost and scale on a tiered
Demand, you have the experience of the basis according to the size of the test.
world’s foremost cloud testing experts who Test creation services are delivered at a low
have run thousands of tests for enterprise- hourly rate with hours varying according to the
class customers. Many of our customers also complexity of test scenarios.
leverage our virtual appliance. In addition to
providing ad-hoc, on-site testing, the scenarios
created for the appliance can be used as-is in
the Cloud.
SOASTA CloudTest is helping the world’s largest and most innovative companies optimize web
performance, decrease development costs and provide their website visitors with a superior user
experience.

5. http://www.soasta.com
Contact in Europe
Fred Beringer – fberinger@soasta.com
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