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DEFINITION: Performance testing is the process of determining the speed or effectiveness of a computer, network, software program or device. This process can involve quantitative tests done in a lab, such as measuring the response time or the number of MIPS (millions of instructions per second) at which a system functions. Qualitative attributes such as reliability, scalability and interoperability may also be  … 
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Managing the Performance of Mobile Applications
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
EGUIDE: Extremely high end-user expectations for enterprise mobile performance have IT teams scrambling to address its unique challenges. Read this e-guide for expert tips on choosing and implementing the best mobile performance management tools and strategies available today. Also, find in-depth industry analyst advice on functional testing.
Posted: 24 May 2012 | Published: 24 May 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

Five Mobile Application Challenges for IT
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Without best practices to address the unique challenges they bring to IT teams, mobile apps can do more harm than good for today's enterprises. Read this white paper to learn how to approach development testing, systems performance, application and data security, and the end-user experience when introducing mobile apps into your IT architecture.
Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 18 May 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

20th Century Fox Providing Answers to Performance Issues with SilkPerformer
sponsored by Micro Focus
CASE STUDY: When 20th Century Fox needed to find a way to increase its software performance and provide users with faster online transaction processing they turned to performance testing software. Read this brief case study to learn how easy the system was to implement and the benefits that Fox was able to see.
Posted: 17 May 2012 | Published: 17 May 2012

Micro Focus

Testing and Quality Management - Best Practices
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn the best practices for testing and configuration that Aberdeen's best-in-class designated organizations used to reduce operating costs by 26% and improve process efficiencies by 41% so you can adopt them to create a streamlined, stable IT environment for your business.
Posted: 07 May 2012 | Published: 07 May 2012

SAP America, Inc.

Lesson #2:  Cloud application performance management (Podcast)
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
VIRTUAL SEMINAR: The cloud is changing the way that organizations must approach application performance management. Listen to this podcast to learn best practices for cloud application performance management.
Posted: 04 May 2012 | Premiered: 04 May 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

Lesson #1: Managing application performance in an Agile ALM environment (Webcast)
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
VIRTUAL SEMINAR: View this webcast to learn how to fit performance management and application lifecycle management (ALM) into today's agile development processes.
Posted: 03 May 2012 | Premiered: 03 May 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010: Virtualized Small Farm with Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers - A Performance Study
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: SharePoint 2010 has many uses that should be taken into account when designing and configuring its technical components. This white paper examines the key findings from a recent hardware performance assessment and offers advice for incorporating virtualization into your deployment.
Posted: 27 Apr 2012 | Published: 27 Apr 2012

Dell and Microsoft

Ergon Energy: Success Story
sponsored by SuccessFactors
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how one government-owned business was able to optimize their organizational performance by leveraging strategic workforce planning. Discover the benefits they're enjoying and how they went about their approach.
Posted: 27 Apr 2012 | Published: 27 Apr 2012

SuccessFactors

The Steps to Building a High-Performance Culture
sponsored by SuccessFactors
WHITE PAPER: In this paper you will uncover the steps to building a high performance culture within your business.
Posted: 27 Apr 2012 | Published: 27 Apr 2012

SuccessFactors

Measuring Employee Performance the Right Way
sponsored by SuccessFactors
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores employee performance in today's organizations and examines how poor data analysis is contributing to percentage increases. Discover the right way to measure performance by ensuring data validity through key tactics and realize how accurate measurements can help drive business success.
Posted: 27 Apr 2012 | Published: 27 Apr 2012

SuccessFactors

A Comparative Study of Microsoft® Exchange 2010 on Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720xd with Exchange 2007 on Dell™ PowerEdge™ R510
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Exchange has changed dramatically over the last few years, but so have the servers that supported it. This white paper explores the recent developments businesses will find most beneficial and offers advice for matching hardware capabilities to user requirements.
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 25 Apr 2012

Dell and Microsoft

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720xd with PERC H710P: A Comparative Analysis with PowerEdge R510 and PERC H700
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: This white paper assesses various server platforms and their ability to support Exchange 2010. Find out which system delivers the best balance of CPU, memory, and internal storage and learn about a sample configuration designed for the deployment of large mailboxes.
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 25 Apr 2012

Dell and Microsoft

Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010: Small Farm with Dell PowerVault Storage - Performance Study
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: This white paper underscores the importance of SharePoint and details its unique hardware and workload requirements. Obtain exclusive advice to help you design an architecture that will increase performance and response times in your SharePoint environment.
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 25 Apr 2012

Dell and Microsoft

Microsoft Exchange Consolidation and TCO: Dell PowerEdge R720xd vs. HP Proliant DL380 G6
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
TEST RESULTS: As organizations expand, they require more servers to support their critical Exchange workloads. This test report explains how companies can increase email capacity while reducing hardware needs through the use of virtualization and powerful servers.
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 25 Apr 2012

Dell and Microsoft

Trial Download: Micro Focus SilkPerformer
sponsored by Micro Focus
TRIAL SOFTWARE: Micro Focus SilkPerformer® is a cost-effective, performance testing solution for optimizing the performance of business applications. It facilitates performance tests that accurately simulate peak demand loads and isolate performance bottlenecks. Take advantage of this risk-free trial and experience the significant advantages it offers.
Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Premiered: 23 Apr 2012

Micro Focus

E-Guide: Object-based File Systems Come of Age for HPC
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
EGUIDE: Object-based file systems offer performance improvements in HPC environments, but many companies are unsure which market options are worth evaluating. This expert e-guide examines several notable offerings and explains how they can eliminate I/O bottlenecks in HPC architectures.
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 | Published: 20 Apr 2012

Dell, Inc. and Intel

TESTING FOR PEAK PERFORMANCE white paper How cloud-based testing ensures that your applications can handle peak demand
sponsored by Micro Focus
WHITE PAPER: While many organizations rely on peak-load testing to ensure optimal application performance, balancing infrastructure costs and testing needs can be very challenging. This white paper introduces a new approach to application testing -- the cloud. Learn more about cloud-based application testing and review the key benefits it offers.
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 | Published: 20 Apr 2012

Micro Focus

Imagination to Insight: Accelerating Discovery with the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
WHITE PAPER: Under-performing processors can limit the potential of HPC applications and interfere with an organization's ability to run simulations and solve problems in a timely manner. This solution brief discusses the latest processor developments that optimize performance, strengthen security, and enable parallelism in business infrastructures.
Posted: 17 Apr 2012 | Published: 17 Apr 2012

Dell, Inc. and Intel

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720xd with PERC H710P: A Balanced Configuration for Microsoft® Exchange 2010 Solutions
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
WHITE PAPER: Email is already critical to business communications, and its importance is only expected to grow exponentially. This white paper compares two server architectures so you can identify the best platform to support your Exchange environment.
Posted: 16 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

Dell, Inc. and Intel

HP TruClient technology: Accelerating the path to testing modern applications
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: The sheer complexity of new Web 2.0 technologies, the ever-growing and changing number of toolkits, and the absence of industry standards make it nearly impossible to find an accurate functional testing method for Web 2.0 applications. Read this white paper to discover the answer to this problem.
Posted: 06 Apr 2012 | Published: 06 Apr 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

Testing Web 2.0 applications with HP Functional Testing software
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover strategies and tools that address the new set of functional testing challenges and risks introduced by Web 2.0 technologies.
Posted: 06 Apr 2012 | Published: 06 Apr 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

How to increase the efficiency of manual testing
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: As today’s applications become more complex, QA organizations need an updated approach that preserves the benefits of manual testing while significantly improving its efficiency, accuracy and speed. Read this paper to learn how to modernize your manual testing approach and reduce test cycles, streamline dev/test communication, and lower costs.
Posted: 06 Apr 2012 | Published: 06 Apr 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

How to test a firewall: A three-step guide for testing firewalls
sponsored by Sophos, Inc.
EGUIDE: “Don’t believe anything the vendors claim until you’ve tested it yourself.” To help you ensure your product will meet your expectations, access this e-guide to explore how to test network firewalls. View now to uncover three (3) types of tests you should perform to ensure you select the best firewall for your organization.
Posted: 01 Apr 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2012

Sophos, Inc.

Perform robust, efficient performance testing by generating real-life load
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Traditional or manual testing methods are expensive, complicated, hard to repeat, and inadequate for the types of loads today's complex system architectures create. Read this paper to learn how an application performance testing solution that leverages virtual users and automation can provide you with robust, efficient performance validation.
Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

Expert classroom: Performance management for agile, cloud, and mobile
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT: In these lessons, learn best practices for getting and effectively using realistic performance metrics by combining Agile, ALM, testing and business intelligence. Experts discuss the disconnect between what an application is doing in production and what actually gets reported as well as mobile, cloud and standard performance requirements.
Posted: 23 Mar 2012 | Premiered: 23 Mar 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company
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PERFORMANCE TESTING DEFINITION (continued): …  evaluated. Performance testing is often done in conjunction with stress testing.Performance testing can verify that a system meets the specifications claimed by its manufacturer or vendor. The process can compare two or more devices or programs in terms of parameters such as speed, data transfer rate, bandwidth, throughput, efficiency or reliability. Performance testing can also be used as a diagnostic aid in locating communications bottlenecks. Often a system will work much better if a problem is resolved at a single point or in a single component. For example, even the fastest computer will … 
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