Shunra Announces vCat 7.0 with Focus on Mobile Application Performance

Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) August 24, 2011

Shunra, the leading authority in application performance engineering solutions, announced today the upcoming release of vCat 7.0, a Windows-based network emulation software solution. Along with the August release of PerformanceSuite 7.0 and NetworkCatcher 7.0, the newest version of vCat continues Shunras commitment to mobile application performance testing.

vCat 7.0 transforms a PC into a real-world Wide Area Network (WAN) test environment. The solutions newest version tests the quality of network performance for users, under a variety of current and potential network conditions directly from the desktop.

Mobile users expect the same performance out of their mobile browsing experience as they do from their desktop or laptop, and as such, every second of delay results in unacceptable application or site abandonments. It is therefore essential that application development keep pace with user expectations for performance, Shunra COO Bill Varga said. With vCat 7.0 businesses will be able to know how well their mobile applications will work in the office, a coffee shop, or an underground subway from the convenience of their desktop before application deployment, and they will receive specific guidance on how to optimize performance, thus avoiding costly performance issues in production.

Among the significant updates to the solution are enhancements designed to more accurately recreate real-world network conditions for mobile testing. For example, vCat 7.0 enables engineers and testers to account for the variability of bandwidth availability commonly experienced in Mobile and Web networks. In addition, testers can emulate the high latency conditions that effect mobile services and are the primary cause of poor performance.

vCat 7.0 also features enhancements to improve the analysis and optimization of application performance. vCats Web and Mobile analysis capabilities allow performance to be analyzed from a business process perspective, so organizations can more quickly pinpoint the root cause of potential performance bottlenecks. In addition, the latest release automatically delivers specific, customized performance optimization suggestions based on proprietary and proven rulesets.

vCat 7.0 also features an improved integration with existing PerformanceSuite solutions, including the recently enhanced NetworkCatcher 7.0, allowing users to capture and incorporate real-world network conditions into their application performance testing efforts.

New and enhanced features of vCat 7.0 include:

Calxeda Launches the EnergyCore Processor; Delivers 10 Times the Performance for the Same Power

Austin, TX (PRWEB) November 01, 2011

Calxeda today unveiled its ARM-based EnergyCore Server-on-a-Chip, which consumes as little as 1.5 watts, the industrys first server processor to achieve this milestone. Following HPs announcement to incorporate Calxeda technology in its first-generation of extreme low energy server development platforms, Calxeda is launching EnergyCore at simultaneous events in Palo Alto, CA and Austin, TX. The news and product details, as well as Calxeda partner reaction and perspective, and replays of todays webcast, can be found at http://www.calxeda.com.

The EnergyCore ARM-based SoC launched today will power a completely new breed of servers. Thanks to its mobile phone heritage and patent-pending innovations from Calxeda, the new processor consumes less than one tenth the power of todays most energy efficient server processors and is ideal for workloads such as web serving, Big Data applications, scalable analytics such as Apache Hadoop, media streaming and mid-tier infrastructure such as caching and in-memory scalable databases.

All the stars are in alignment: Web 2.0 data-driven businesses, cloud computing, open source portable software, power consumption at crisis levels and the emergence of server-class performance of ARM processors, said Barry Evans, CEO and co-founder of Calxeda. We believe a new era of energy-efficient servers is now dawning for scale-out workloads, and today we are introducing the foundational architecture that will enable this breakthrough. While we are proud to launch our Calxeda EnergyCore processors, we are even more thrilled with the many partners who are joining us on this journey.

In an industry first, the EnergyCore processor SoC includes a supercomputing-class 80-Gigabit fabric switch and an integrated management engine with power optimization software, all on a single piece of silicon. The EnergyCore SoC also includes a full complement of server I/O features and a large 4MB ECC L2 cache, enabling system vendors, Calxedas customers, to offer a complete server node that consumes only 5 watts, including 4GB of ECC memory and a large capacity SSD.

The HP-designed system contains 288 Calxeda servers in a single 7 inch (4 Rack Unit) chassis, added Evans. A single rack of HPs Calxeda servers delivers the throughput of some 700 traditional servers and dramatically simplifies the infrastructure needed to hook them all together and manage the cluster.

For Web 2.0 companies to continually deliver new and innovative services, they must radically reduce the space, energy consumption and cost of their data center infrastructure, said Glenn Keels, director of product marketing in the Hyperscale Business Unit at HP. HP is incorporating Calxedas EnergyCore SoCs into the HP Redstone Server Development Platform for testing, developing and benchmarking hyperscale applications. Coupled with our HP Discovery Lab and the HP Pathfinder program of industry leaders, we can shape the future of Extreme Low Energy Computing.

Many prospective Calxeda customers attended todays event, including Niall Dalton, Director of High Frequency Trading at Cantor Fitzgerald, who said: Companies in our industry are constrained by space and power, yet our appetite for analysis is insatiable. We need a 10X breakthrough and this could be it. We are evaluating the Calxeda technology in hyperscale throughput computing for data and simulation intensive applications. The Calxeda Linux platform enables rapid porting of our software, enabling us to quickly leverage the energy-efficient ARM cores and Calxeda's scalable communications fabric to scale our applications to new heights.

Calxeda is Re-defining the Server

Calxedas EnergyCore architecture is based on a new model for scale-out computing that is: