PHILADELPHIA, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- The first co-developed, fully integrated solution on the market
eliminates the need for remotely deployed load generators and automatically
aggregates end-to-end statistics into HP Performance Center 9.5 (including HP
LoadRunner 9.5)

Shunra Software (www.shunra.com), the market leading provider of network
emulation and application development testing solutions, worked with HP
developers to integrate their powerful WAN emulation and testing capabilities
into newly released versions of HP LoadRunner and HP Performance Center. This
is a completely automatic integration, with no script editing required.
Shunra's VE Desktop for HP Software
(http://www.shunra.com/shunra_ve_desktop_for_hp_software.php ) pulls in
network statistics automatically from load generators, emulates a wide area
network (WAN) and reports real world network conditions during load testing.

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A WAN emulation solution that seamlessly fits into existing HP
Performance Center processes, Shunra VE Desktop for HP Software
(http://www.shunra.com/shunra_ve_desktop_for_hp_software.php ) transforms a
LAN-based load testing environment into a real world production environment.
This transformation from LAN to WAN is a proven, necessary step for quality
assurance of applications that are required to perform over wide area
networks. Early testing over an emulated wide area network enables IT
professionals to address problems such as chatty applications, latency
sensitive transactions, caching inefficiencies, and other network performance
conditions.

"The market demanded an easy and accurate way to anticipate application
performance on the network, and that's exactly what our developers created,"
said Thomas Charlton, CEO of Shunra Software. "It's common knowledge that
problems are less expensive to fix when they're caught early in the
application lifecycle, and our collaboration with HP represents an accurate
way to predict how an application will perform on a wide area network before
rollout. Before there was just hope, now there's insight, control and proof
that it will perform. This is a complete paradigm shift in how applications
are tested."

Shunra VE Desktop for HP Software
(http://www.shunra.com/shunra_ve_desktop_for_hp_software.php ) enables each
load generator to simulate a different network location. Statistics are
automatically captured, sorted and analyzed based on location. These
capabilities reduce cost by eliminating the need for remotely deployed load
generators and gives software testing professionals access to a complete
network landscape. This delivers faster insight into potential application
performance issues, which enables error resolution to application and network
issues to occur long before application rollout and end user impact.

"Customers can cut costs and resolve network-related performance problems
faster by emulating the WAN in software instead of physically adding load
generators at remote locations" said Subbu Iyer, senior director of Products,
Software and Solutions, HP. "The integration of Shunra's VE Desktop network
emulation with HP LoadRunner and HP Performance Center testing products helps
customers optimize the performance of their applications to meet the needs of
the business."

Some typical uses of Shunra VE Desktop for HP Software include the
detection of:

- Latency impact - Latency causes the transactions and sessions to stay
      open longer than they would on the LAN. Without incorporating the WAN
      effects of delay into a load test the memory usage, thread usage, and
      other critical server resources can be significantly understated.
    - Bandwidth limitations - Bandwidth constraints affect transactions
      "in-flight," causing them to take longer to complete their transmission
      and ultimately impacts important server resources.
    - Network impact - Where specific response time goals are being targeted,
      it is important to incorporate the effect of the network into existing
      testing processes to examine the impact on total response time. Shunra
      enables you to accurately assess total response time for remote users
      prior to deployment and can analyze the breakdown of total response
      time into the client, network, and server components. This assists in
      diagnosing and resolving transactions that will not consistently meet
      response time goals.

"The integration of Shunra with HP is a major step forward in software
testing. Developing and delivering quality software has historically been a
major challenge because testing outside the true production environment is
virtually impossible without duplicating that environment. Network simulation
based on actual network behaviors, Shunra's core value to customers, is a
great alternative and will lead to fewer problems in production software
deployments," said Julie Craig, senior analyst, Enterprise Management
Associates. "Companies engaged in large-scale development and quality
assurance processes using HP Performance Center and/or HP LoadRunner should
consider adding Shunra capabilities to their testing arsenal."

Shunra Software is an HP Software Certified, Gold Business Partner and a
member of the HP Marketplace Referral Program. VE Desktop for HP Software is
sold separately, additional information on this product may be found at
http://www.shunra.com/shunra_ve_desktop_for_hp_software.php.

About Shunra Software

Shunra Software is the market leader in network emulation 
(http://www.shunra.com/wan-emulation.php ) solutions for application
performance testing throughout the entire application development lifecycle.
Shunra's award-winning solutions enable development, quality assurance,
pre-deployment and operations teams to create an exact replica of their
production environment or design what-if network scenarios; allowing them to
predict exactly how applications or infrastructure changes will perform in
any networked environment-before rollout. Shunra's solutions and services are
typically deployed in projects including data center consolidation;
application performance readiness testing; VoIP testing 
(http://www.shunra.com/voip-testing.php ); website testing 
(http://www.shunra.com/website-testing.php ) and WAN optimization
(http://www.shunra.com/wan-optimization.php ) technology testing.

Shunra's solutions and services are used by thousands of customers
worldwide. Clients include 3M, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, EMC, FedEx,
General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly Services, Merrill Lynch, Motorola,
Nestle, Pitney Bowes, and Vodafone. Shunra has offices in New York City,
Philadelphia, Israel, the UK and Singapore. Shunra is also supported through
a global network of channel partners. For more information on Shunra, please
visit www.shunra.com.

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