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The Ultimate Guide to Performance Testing and Software Testing: Testing
Types, Performance Testing Steps, Best Practices, and More
By Angela Stringfellow
Performance testing is a form of software testing that focuses on how a
system running the system performs under a particular load. This is not about
finding software bugs or defects. Performance testing measures according to
benchmarks and standards. Performance testing should give developers the
diagnostic information they need to eliminate bottlenecks.
Types of performance testing for software
To understand how software will perform on users' systems, there different
types of performance tests that can be applied during software testing. This
is non-functional testing, which is designed to determine the readiness of a
system. (Functional testing focuses on individual functions of software.)
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What Is Continuous Integration? (And What It Isn't)
By Ron Gidron
With continuous delivery (CD) almost always in the spotlight, continuous
integration (CI) is often left out in the cold. Indeed, it's been in use for
so long and so widely, we often take the model for granted. So what is CI and
how can you make the most of it? This blog is intended to answer those
questions.
Before we step into examining CI, we need to look back. Software developers
often work in small teams and modularity, and need to integrate their changes
with the rest of the project code base. Waiting to integrate code creates
merge conflicts, bugs that can be tricky to resolve, diverging code
strategies, and duplicated effort. Before CI, developers also had a problem
of wasted time: they compiled and built their changes multiple times a day on
their own machine and had to sit idle waiting for th... (more)
How often is an environment unavailable due to factors within your project's
control? How often is an environment unavailable due to external factors? Is
the software and hardware in the environment up to date with the target
production systems? How often do you have to resort to manual workarounds due
to an environment?
These are all questions that you should ask yourself if testing environments
are consistently unavailable and affected by outages. Here are three key
metrics that you can track that can help avoid costly downtime.
Metric: Availability and Uptime Percentage
QA and staging environments seldom require the same level of uptime as
production, but tell that to a team of developers working 24/7 on a project
that has an aggressive deadline and you will have a very unhappy team. As a
test environment manager, you know that when a QA system is unavailable, you ... (more)
How to Learn from Failure in DevOps
By Eric Bruno
DevOps failure is a touchy subject with some, because DevOps is typically
perceived as a way to avoid failure. As a result, when you fail in a DevOps
practice, the situation can seem almost hopeless. However, just as a
fail-fast business approach, or the "fail and adjust sooner" methodology of
Agile often proves, DevOps failures are actually a step in the right
direction. They're the first step toward learning from failures and turning
your DevOps practice into one that will lead you toward even greater success,
sooner rather than later.
DevOps has its roots in Agile, where shorter development cycles with frequent
feedback loops guide you quickly, over a period of time, toward product
delivery that is more aligned with customer needs. The point of the feedback
loop is to learn from your actions through customer feedb... (more)
Evaluating NFV and SDN: Key Considerations
Making informed network investment decisions about emerging technologies such
as network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking
(SDN) can help evolve the network to keep pace with the innovations of the
devices and people it's connecting. As you work with business leaders to make
decisions about upgrading your infrastructure with these networking
developments, it's important to understand the similarities, differences, and
benefits of dual NFV and SDN implementation.
With their ability to offer a new way to design, deploy, and manage the
network and its services, NFV and SDN should be incorporated into modern
enterprise networks and carrier infrastructures. However, lack of knowledge
about these technologies can result in poor networking investments and missed
opportunities to experience the benefits... (more)
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Efficient Access to a Cloud-based HPC Visualization Cluster
Data scientists must access high-performance computing resources across a
wide-area network. To achieve cloud-based HPC visualization, researchers must
transfer datasets and visualization results efficiently.
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HPC clusters now compute GPU-accelerated visualization in the cloud cluster.
To efficiently display results remotely, a high-performance, low-latency
protocol transfers the display from the cluster to a remote desktop. Further,
tools to easily mount remote datasets and efficiently transfer that data into
the HPC cluster are described, including performance characterization
results.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Brian Fromme, a solutions engineer at
Penguin Computing, discussed how together, high-performance data ... (more)
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Delivering on Cloud Storage-as-a-Service for a Major Asia Pacific Telco
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Burley, a Senior Business
Development Executive in IT Services at NetApp, described how NetApp designed
a three-year program of work to migrate 25PB of a major telco's enterprise
data to a new STaaS platform, and then secured a long-term contract to manage
and operate the platform.
This significant program blended the best of NetApp's solutions and services
capabilities to enable this telco's successful adoption of private cloud
storage and launching of virtual storage services to its enterprise market.
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By evolving the engagement from a solution to a systems integration
orientation, NetApp became a key partner with this telco in its enterprise
business.
A collaborativ... (more)
Some people are directors, managers, and administrators. Others are
disrupters.
Eddie Webb (@edwardawebb) is an IT Disrupter for Software Development
Platforms at Liberty Mutual and was a presenter at the 2016 All Day DevOps
conference. His talk, Organically DevOps: Building Quality and Security into
the Software Supply Chain at Liberty Mutual, looked at Liberty Mutual's
transformation to Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps.
For a large, heavily regulated industry, this task can not only be daunting,
but viewed by many as impossible.
Eddie's talk looks at the origins of DevOps at Liberty Mutual, the challenges
of centralizing DevOps, and how to make it easy for developers and operations
to do the right thing. He noted that DevOps is not their goal; Continuous
Delivery is their goal, and DevOps is the enabler.
It all started at Liberty Mutual in ... (more)
"We're focused on how to get some of the attributes that you would expect
from an Amazon, Azure, Google, and doing that on-prem. We believe today that
you can actually get those types of things done with certain architectures
available in the market today," explained Steve Conner, VP of Sales at
Cloudistics, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 -
Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO, colocated with Cloud Expo will be held June 5-7, 2018, at the
Javits Center in New York City, and November 6-8, 2018, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorld
Expo within the program. Successful transformation requires a la... (more)
"CA has been doing a lot of things in the area of DevOps. Now we have a
complete set of tool sets in order to enable customers to go all the way from
planning to development to testing down to release into the operations,"
explained Aruna Ravichandran, Vice President of Global Marketing and Strategy
at CA Technologies, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 21st
Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center
in Santa Clara, CA.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO, colocated with Cloud Expo will be held June 5-7, 2018, at the
Javits Center in New York City, and November 6-8, 2018, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorld
Expo within the program. Successfu... (more)
"NetApp is known as a data management leader but we do a lot more than just
data management on-prem with the data centers of our customers. We're also
big in the hybrid cloud," explained Wes Talbert, Principal Architect at
NetApp, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 - Nov 2,
2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO, colocated with Cloud Expo will be held June 5-7, 2018, at the
Javits Center in New York City, and November 6-8, 2018, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorld
Expo within the program. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on
being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Elizabeth White  Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes was originally built by Google, leveraging years of experience with managing container workloads, and is now a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) project. Kubernetes has been widely adopted by the community, supported on all major public and private cloud providers, and is gaining rapid adoption in enterprises. However, Kubernetes may seem intimidating and complex ... Feb. 14, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,049 | By Pat Romanski  DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die. A Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has many benefits that provide the needed base for a true DevOps paradigm. In their Day 3 Keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Brown, a Solutions Marketing Manager at Nutanix, and Mark Lav... Feb. 14, 2018 12:30 PM EST Reads: 5,695 | By Pat Romanski  While some developers care passionately about how data centers and clouds are architected, for most, it is only the end result that matters. To the majority of companies, technology exists to solve a business problem, and only delivers value when it is solving that problem. 2017 brings the mainstream adoption of containers for production workloads.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ben McCormack, VP of Operations at Evernote, discussed how data centers of the future will be managed, how the p... Feb. 14, 2018 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,485 | By Elizabeth White  When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be... Feb. 14, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,420 | By Jason Bloomberg  Imagine if you will, a retail floor so densely packed with sensors that they can pick up the movements of insects scurrying across a store aisle. Or a component of a piece of factory equipment so well-instrumented that its digital twin provides resolution down to the micrometer. Feb. 14, 2018 06:45 AM EST Reads: 784 | By Dana Gardner  The use of containers by developers -- and now increasingly IT operators -- has grown from infatuation to deep and abiding love. But as with any long-term affair, the honeymoon soon leads to needing to live well together ... and maybe even getting some relationship help along the way. And so it goes with container orchestration and automation solutions, which are rapidly emerging as the means to maintain the bliss between rapid container adoption and broad container use among multiple cloud host... Feb. 14, 2018 05:30 AM EST Reads: 663 | By Liz McMillan  Blockchain is a shared, secure record of exchange that establishes trust, accountability and transparency across business networks. Supported by the Linux Foundation's open source, open-standards based Hyperledger Project, Blockchain has the potential to improve regulatory compliance, reduce cost as well as advance trade. Are you curious about how Blockchain is built for business? In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, René Bostic, Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America, discussed the b... Feb. 14, 2018 04:15 AM EST Reads: 3,604 | By Pat Romanski  You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You’re looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you’re concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies. Feb. 14, 2018 04:00 AM EST Reads: 2,966 | By Liz McMillan  As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP) solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and traditional applications. But that's no longer enough to satisfy evolving and complex business requirements.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, explored how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile DevOps methodology. He expla... Feb. 14, 2018 12:00 AM EST Reads: 3,910 | By Jignesh Solanki  The need for greater agility and scalability necessitated the digital transformation in the form of following equation: monolithic to microservices to serverless architecture (FaaS). To keep up with the cut-throat competition, the organisations need to update their technology stack to make software development their differentiating factor.
Thus microservices architecture emerged as a potential method to provide development teams with greater flexibility and other advantages, such as the abili... Feb. 13, 2018 11:45 PM EST Reads: 544 | By Elizabeth White  Product connectivity goes hand and hand these days with increased use of personal data. New IoT devices are becoming more personalized than ever before.
In his session at 22nd Cloud Expo | DXWorld Expo, Nicolas Fierro, CEO of MIMIR Blockchain Solutions, will discuss how in order to protect your data and privacy, IoT applications need to embrace Blockchain technology for a new level of product security never before seen - or needed. Feb. 13, 2018 11:00 PM EST Reads: 2,119 | By Yeshim Deniz DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die. A Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has many benefits that provide the needed base for a true DevOps paradigm. In their Day 3 Keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Brown, a Solutions Marketing Manager at Nutanix, and Mark Lav... Feb. 13, 2018 11:00 PM EST Reads: 3,083 | By Liz McMillan  DevOps is under attack because developers don’t want to mess with infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to use platforms instead of raw automation. That’s changing the landscape that we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNative) and process redefinition (SRE).
Rob Hirschfeld’s recent work in Kubernetes operations has led to the conclusion that containers and related platforms have changed the way we should be thinking about DevOps and... Feb. 13, 2018 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,470 | By Liz McMillan In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Burley, a Senior Business Development Executive in IT Services at NetApp, described how NetApp designed a three-year program of work to migrate 25PB of a major telco's enterprise data to a new STaaS platform, and then secured a long-term contract to manage and operate the platform.
This significant program blended the best of NetApp’s solutions and services capabilities to enable this telco’s successful adoption of private cloud storage and launching ... Feb. 13, 2018 09:45 AM EST Reads: 3,118 | By Yeshim Deniz  All clouds are not equal. To succeed in a DevOps context, organizations should plan to develop/deploy apps across a choice of on-premise and public clouds simultaneously depending on the business needs. This is where the concept of the Lean Cloud comes in - resting on the idea that you often need to relocate your app modules over their life cycles for both innovation and operational efficiency in the cloud. Feb. 13, 2018 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,623 | By Liz McMillan  In a recent survey, Sumo Logic surveyed 1,500 customers who employ cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). According to the survey, a quarter of the respondents have already deployed Docker containers and nearly as many (23 percent) are employing the AWS Lambda serverless computing framework.
It’s clear: serverless is here to stay. The adoption does come with some needed changes, within both application development and operations. Tha... Feb. 13, 2018 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,634 | By Elizabeth White  You know you need the cloud, but you're hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You're looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you're concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies.
What do you do? Feb. 12, 2018 03:45 PM EST Reads: 2,369 | By Pat Romanski  The question before companies today is not whether to become intelligent, it’s a question of how and how fast. The key is to adopt and deploy an intelligent application strategy while simultaneously preparing to scale that intelligence. In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Sangeeta Chakraborty, Chief Customer Officer at Ayasdi, provided a tactical framework to become a truly intelligent enterprise, including how to identify the right applications for AI, how to build a Center of Excellence to oper... Feb. 12, 2018 07:30 AM EST Reads: 3,598 | By Yeshim Deniz  DX World EXPO, LLC, a Lighthouse Point, Florida-based startup trade show producer and the creator of "DXWorldEXPO® - Digital Transformation Conference & Expo" has announced its executive management team. The team is headed by Levent Selamoglu, who has been named CEO. "Now is the time for a truly global DX event, to bring together the leading minds from the technology world in a conversation about Digital Transformation," he said in making the announcement. Feb. 8, 2018 05:15 AM EST Reads: 2,227 | By Pat Romanski  In this strange new world where more and more power is drawn from business technology, companies are effectively straddling two paths on the road to innovation and transformation into digital enterprises. The first path is the heritage trail – with “legacy” technology forming the background. Here, extant technologies are transformed by core IT teams to provide more API-driven approaches. Legacy systems can restrict companies that are transitioning into digital enterprises. To truly become a lead... Feb. 8, 2018 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,509 |
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There is a story emerging about the role the Internet of Things (IoT) has played in disaster preparedness. Indeed this technology has matured to the point that it is making a real and measurable impact in helping communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from disaster. 
There is a fundamental flaw in how many people think about digital transformation. First, as we’ve written about extensively at Intellyx, people tend to think about it as a finite corporate project, rather than as a process of continual transformation. There is a deeper flaw in thinking, however, that leads to this type of project mentality. Enterprise leaders commonly think of transformation as something done at a corporate level — something the organization does to itself. But that mindset creates a separation between the act of transformation at an organizational level and the transformatio...
AI technology is ever evolving and some believe it could be the next digital frontier. Today, the artificial intelligence revolution seems to be transforming every business in just about every industry from auto to banking to retail and beyond. The gaming industry is no exception. 
From manual human effort the world is slowly paving its way to a new space where most process are getting replaced with tools and systems to improve efficiency and bring down operational costs. Automation is the next big thing and low code platforms are fueling it in a significant way.
The Automation era is here. We are in the fast pace of replacing manual human efforts with machines and processes. In the world of Information Technology too, we are linking disparate systems, softwares and tools to make things self sustaining. This is called Automation.It has been helping companies overcome t...
Bert Loomis was a visionary. This general session will highlight how Bert Loomis and people like him inspire us to build great things with small inventions. In their general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Harold Hannon, Architect at IBM Bluemix, and Michael O'Neill, Strategic Business Development at Nvidia, discussed the accelerating pace of AI development and how IBM Cloud and NVIDIA are partnering to bring AI capabilities to "every day," on-demand. They also reviewed two "free infrastructure" programs available to startups and innovators. 
We are given a desktop platform with Java 8 or Java 9 installed and seek to find a way to deploy high-performance Java applications that use Java 3D and/or Jogl without having to run an installer. We are subject to the constraint that the applications be signed and deployed so that they can be run in a trusted environment (i.e., outside of the sandbox). Further, we seek to do this in a way that does not depend on bundling a JRE with our applications, as this makes downloads and installations rather long.
There is a war a-brewin’, but this war will be fought with wits and not brute strength. Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration that “the nation that leads in AI (Artificial Intelligence) will be the ruler of the world,” the press and analysts have created hysteria regarding the ramifications of artificial intelligence on everything from public education to unemployment to healthcare to Skynet.
Note: artificial intelligence (AI) endows applications with the ability to automatically learn and adapt from experience via interacting with the surroundings / environment. See the b...
A strong declaration from a historically antagonist foe should put chills in the hearts of Americans preparing themselves for the world ahead: Russian President Vladimir Putin says the nation that leads in AI will be the ruler of the world [1]” … The ruler of the world!
From the article (with some modification to avoid political landmines), we get the following:
“The development of artificial intelligence has increasingly become a national security concern in recent years. It is China and the US (not Russia), which are seen as the two frontrunners, with China recently announcing its ambi...
Our cities have been connected since the dawn of urbanization in the Indus Valley and on the plains of Mesopotamia nearly ten millennia ago. Cities exist to gather and connect people, bringing us together into communities and joint ventures that need complex networks of communication. But in recent years the connected city has come to mean something more. Today and in the future, the connected city will not just be about people connecting with people, but people with machines, people with people via machines, and perhaps most importantly, machines with machines.
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have been the subject of much discourse in the last several years. They were widely anticipated in the gaming and entertainment industries, but in marketing and corporate settings, the benefits were murky at best. Today, these technologies are becoming more of a reality in all areas of business.
For example, the new IKEA® shopping app leverages augmented reality to help shoppers determine how certain popular items will look in their homes – no trip to a crowded megastore necessary. Marriott® deployed virtual reality for customers to see its hot...
What's disruptive innovation, and why does it matter to leaders in the C-suite? It's how the savvy non-conformist will target market opportunities. How does this happen, when established companies seem to have the advantage? Creative software developers can quickly apply new technologies and digital business models to capture untapped demand.
So data warehousing may not be cool anymore, you say? It’s yesterday’s technology (or 1990’s technology if you’re as old as me) that served yesterday’s business needs. And while it’s true that recent big data and data science technologies, architectures and methodologies seems to have rendered data warehousing to the back burner, it is entirely false that there is not a critical role for the data warehouse and Business Intelligence in digitally transformed organizations.
The IoT Will Grow: In what might be the most obvious prediction of the decade, the IoT will continue to expand next year, with more and more devices coming online every single day. What isn’t so obvious about this prediction: where that growth will occur. The retail, healthcare, and industrial/supply chain industries will likely see the greatest growth. Forrester Research has predicted the IoT will become “the backbone” of customer value as it continues to grow. It is no surprise that retail is jumping aboard, hoping to harness the power of the IoT to connect with customers, grow their brands,...
This is the time of year when everyone makes his or her predictions for 2018. I have my predictions as well, but wanted to do something a bit more fun. So I thought I’d look backwards to the state of technology 50 years ago to gain some insights that we can use to make projections about 2018. That is, what “predictions” made in the 1950’s might tell us about 2018.
However, it’s really hard to find predictions about the future made in the 1950’s. There was no Internet or Social Media or Reality TV, so I found the next best proxy…sci-fi movies! I decided to review the most popular sci-fi mo...
The time of year when crystal balls get a viewing and many pundits put out their annual predictions for the coming year. Copying off since 2012, rather than thinking up my own, I figured I’d regurgitate what many others expect to happen.
Top 10 Cyber Security Predictions for 2018 – Infosec Institute kicks off this year’s Top 10, Top 10 list with a look back at their 2017 predictions (AI, IoT, etc.) and dives head first into 2018 noting that Ransomware will be the most dangerous threat to organizations worldwide; cryptocurrency will attract fraudsters looking to mine; cloud security will (ag...
The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the development process, accelerating application delivery times, and ensuring that developers will become hero...
This month, an AI (artificial intelligence) system passed a medical exam in China for the first time. I wonder how its bedside manner will be? In addition, Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot named Sophia. With all these rapid advancements, I think it is time we explore the spiritual life of robots.
Up till recently, programmers coded and configured algorithms, AI, automation and machine learning system and took personal responsibility for all the code. Today, however, AI has escaped the confines of human oversight and has been empowered and employed to self-program, self-optimize, ...
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