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VoIP performance testing fundamentals
VoIP network performance testing can mean the difference between a VoIP system working at a high level QoS and a weak system that runs so poorly customers could take their...07 Jun 2007
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More than half of top US websites fail performance test
More than half of the top 100 US websites provide poor performance to users, according to a survey from web testing firm Pingdom. Pingdom used the Yslow performance analysis tool from Yahoo to meas...02 Jun 2008
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Reliability and performance testing is the only way to guarantee quality of service
If you want a successful IP network, test it before, during and after implementation Any business planning to implement or improve an IP network without testing all potential scenarios is s...26 May 2005
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Poor application performance costs 1 in 3 enterprises over £1m per year
Research reveals inadequate performance testing processes in 89% of organisations04 Sep 2006
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IBM buys Green Hat for cloud-based agile testing
IBM is acquiring Green Hat, the cloud-based software testing company. Green Hat will become part of IBM’s Rational developer tools product suite and will be offered through IBM Global Business Serv...05 Jan 2012
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Azure beats Google and Rackspace in cloud performance benchmark
Microsoft's Azure has topped the charts in terms of cloud application performance, according to tests conducted by Compuware. Microsoft Windows Azure tops the list with the best performance, follow...07 Oct 2011
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Red Hat boosts Enterprise Linux virtualisation performance with 6.1 update
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 is now available. According to Red Hat, the update builds on the November release of version 6.0 with improvements in system reliability, scalability and performance, c...20 May 2011
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Product downloads: LoadRunner
Get a free 10-day trial copy of the industry-standard performance-testing product for predicting system behaviour and...24 Aug 2004
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SAP highlights customer experiences of in-memory computing at Sapphire Now
SAP's high-performance analytic appliance (HANA) for in-memory computing is central to the company's immediate plans, says Vishal Sikka, executive board member, technology & innovation at SAP. "HAN...19 May 2011
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SAP in-memory technology swallows 1.3TB database
The SAP In-Memory Appliance (SAP HANA) running on IBM 3850 servers can perform 10,000 queries an hour against 1.3 terabytes of data, returning results within seconds, according to a benchmark from ...11 Mar 2011
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IBM puts Windows into developer cloud
IBM's cloud service now supports Windows. IBM said its multi-tenant platform includes support for Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Data Center Editions. Through the IBM cloud, IBM said businesses ca...21 Oct 2010
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Oracle OpenWorld 2010: Unbreakable Linux lives on
Oracle has launched Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, a Linux kernel optimised for Oracle software and hardware. Oracle claims its Linux distribution is more than 75% faster in OLTP performance tests ...20 Sep 2010
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Do your own Java benchmarks
Analyst firm Giga Information Group has advised users to conduct their own Java application server performance tests as suppliers...15 Mar 2002
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Internet Explorer 9 beta preview
Design your own concept BMW with Internet Explorer 9 BMW is one of the companies that has used the HTML 5.0 features in IE 9.0 beta to create an interactive website. According to Tom Hopkins, from ...16 Sep 2010
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2010 FIFA World Cup™ core IT complete this month
The software that will underpin the operation of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa will be complete this month. Indian software developer Mahindra Satyam, which won the tender to supply the ...04 Mar 2010
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Photos: World Cup 2010 gets its own Hand of God
Everything ready The event management software will be finished on 31 March giving Mahindra Satyam time to run integration and performance tests and make any changes. Hundreds of thousands of peo...05 Mar 2010
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Tiscali comes bottom in Ofcom bandwidth tests
Tiscali has come out bottom of Ofcom's league table of internet service providers, with the lowest measured bandwidth compared with its advertised speed. The regulator measured broadband speeds of ...28 Jul 2009
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Video: I Want One of Those website tested with crowdsourcing
Online retailer, I Want One of Those, has turned to crowdsourcing to cut the time it needs to test upgrades to its website. IWOOT says that the technique has helped it to cut testing time from days...30 Jul 2009
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Crowdsourcing slashes software testing time
Most people are familiar with crowdsourcing from reading the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, which uses volunteers across the world to update its content. But US-Israeli firm uTest has pioneered cr...30 Jul 2009
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Mobile handsets to blame for dropped calls
Don't blame the network, blame the phone for dropped calls. That's the advice from Broadband-Testing, a European test lab that tested six of Europe's most popular high-end/smart phone models for th...10 Jul 2009
