We’ve just completed a series of Magento cloud hosting benchmarks using Blitz.io’s benchmarking tool. We scaled the infrastructure up and down to accommodate various traffic levels, then tested across a range of pages for an out-of-the-box Magento Demo Site hosted on Pagoda Box.

This IDC Buyer Case Study discusses Bottle Rocket Apps’ evolution of a quality approach that encompasses mobile testing via testing in the cloud. Bottle Rocket Apps (www.bottlerocketapps.com) focuses on creation of mobile branding for companies seeking mission-critical applications on mobile platforms. The company urgently needed testing capacity to quickly respond to customer demands and specifically to be able to deliver a complex mobile application within a very quick time frame. This document discusses a specific project from Black Entertainment Television (BET) that required immediate access to broad, variegated, significant resources for mobile simulation so that Bottle Rocket could quickly create a mobile application to support a daily television audience of 800,000 to 1 million viewers as part of “106 & Park,” a popular live video countdown show from BET.

Mu Dynamics has pushed the integration of its Blitz application testing product onto multiple platforms including Heroku, AppHarbor, Acquia, and CloudFlare in an attempt to gain wider developer uptake. The integration has incorporated Mu’s cloud-based load and performance testing technology, with a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) layer, a Content Management System (CMS), as well as web security and performance offerings.

“We think [performance testing] needs to be part of that continuous process,” said Ajit Sancheti , co-founder of Mu Dynamics, Inc. Today Mu Dynamics announced the integration of their Blitz cloud-based load test tool with Atlassian’s Bamboo, a Continuous Integration (CI) server.

As cloud computing continues to mature, one is hard pressed to identify a class of enterprise software that is not delivered and consumed as a service. Performance and load-based application testing, important parts of ALM, can be counted among these cloud offerings. Moving these functions to the cloud offers typical cloud benefits, most notably lowered capital and operational costs, and support for distributed development teams. But cloud-based testing also changes the way the tests themselves are performed. These changes come at a time when more and more organizations are looking at software as their competitive differentiator.

We all know what happens when your app performs like a pig. You lose users, customers and revenue. Your app is slow, the failing pigs don’t amuse your customers and you hear about it as the trending topic on Twitter.

There is a great rush to move applications to the cloud and enable them for delivery on mobile devices. One of the critical tasks to make this move work is the provision of efficient performance testing.  Mu Dynamics has stepped into this essential market with Blitz. I recently spoke with Ajit Sancheti, Co-Founder at Mu, about their move.

Implementing IPsec properly isn’t like “flipping a switch,” adds Thomas Maufer, director of Technical Marketing for Mu Dynamics , a testing and application validation company. It requires having a Public Key Infrastructure, which is a repository and management system for digital certificates. Managing those certificates within an enterprise is one thing, but connecting two enterprises is a different level of challenge.

Mu Dynamics is extending its application testing know-how to Long Term Evolution (LTE) with a new set of tools designed specifically to test the all-IP 4G network.

Mu Dynamics, a start-up that specializes in load testing cloud apps at Internet scale, has released the results of an investigation that finds that Skype voice calls on Mac OS X using the latest client consumes 28 percent more bandwidth and network resources than Skype on an iPhone, iPad, Android phone, and even the PC.

Already vendors are trying to support this with developer-friendly tools such as Juniper’s network sandbox. It has a fancier name, but essentially this is a cloud-based network that a developer can mock up as their production network to test new applications in, so they can see how the network needs to be configured.

Junosphere Labs also includes and interoperates with applications and products from select Juniper partners, such as Cariden Technologies for traffic management and simulation; Mu Dynamics for application modeling; Packet Design for Layer 3 visibility across an IP network; Spirent for testing and validating the performance of virtualized and cloud computing environments; and WANDL, for network planning, design and optimization.

The biggest challenges in cyber security today are keeping up with emerging threats and making getting your cyber security to be proactive instead of reactive.

Mu Dynamics offers Mu Studio Performance Suite, which allows Juniper customers to accurately recreate thousands of applications to model the mix of traffic of their actual environment and validate application-level policies on firewalls or networking systems.

Mu Dynamics is making it easier for devs and provisioning teams to validate and test the performance of cloud applications directly from popular PaaS, CMS or web management apps they’re already using.