Data Center Testing

Empowered helps ensure your Data Center delivers the performance, availability, security and scalability your application users and customers demand.

Empowered helps Data Center stakeholders:

• Validate Data Center architecture and design, and Data Center switching and storage networking technology choices
• Benchmark performance, availability, security and scalability, and optimize interconnections between physical and virtual servers, and storage
• Verify size, performance and SLAs of connections between Data Centers and DR Sites, and optimize latency and throughput for data replication and failover
• Optimize High Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC) for “Big Data” and Hadoop
• Stress-test to find limits – How many Virtual Machines does your SAN support?  Under load?  With congestion?  When VM migration occurs?
• Plan your migration to the Cloud – Validate the performance and security of your Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud offerings, as a provider, or end customer

Data Center Testing Technology

Our Data Center Testing Offerings include:

• Spirent Avalanche provides stateful Layer 4-7 security, attack and performance testing for Data Center and Web Application infrastructures, and virtual/cloud infrastructures.  Avalanche emulates the behaviour of massive numbers of users and their layer traffic, to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) for your customers
• Spirent TestCenter provides performance, interoperability and conformance testing for all key network infrastructures, including storage via Fibre Channel (FC) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) interfaces, with unmatched scale and realism
• The new Spirent TestCenter C100 Platform provides a common high-performance platform for Spirent Landslide, Avalanche and Studio software suites.
• Spirent Studio Performance and Studio Security provide advanced stateful, application-aware testing, on the new C100 platform.
• Spirent TestCenter Virtual and Spirent Avalanche Virtual test the interconnections between physical and virtual servers, storage and related data center infrastructure
• Spirent's TestCenter C1 Appliance supports two line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet test ports and the complete suite of Spirent’s award-winning Layer 2-7 router, switch, application and security test solutions in a portable form factor, at an affordable, entry level price point.
• Spirent Axon is a new, easy-to-use solution aimed at simpler Enterprise Testing, in a small form factor appliance.
• Testing solutions that emulate links between Data Centers – over Carrier Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH – in the lab, efficiently, with realism and control  
• All solutions fully support converged IPv4/IPv6 testing, for a wide range of scenarios.  
• Empowered also offers solutions for advanced Penetration and Vulnerability Testing, to validate end-to-end security of your Data Center and mission-critical applications  

Engage with Empowered to discuss your specific testing goals.

Data Center Testing Professional Services

Empowered can help you ensure the performance, availability, security and scalability of new Data Center technologies. Empowered can help you:

• Understand what testing you need for your environment, and customers
• Help your team develop test plans and methodologies in line with your business goals
• Plan trials of new technology, with advanced tools for load simulation and performance analysis, and skills to evaluate trial results
• Build and maintain testing expertise within your team with ad-hoc or customized training, or as a flexible, outsourced service to supplement your team
• Support you all the way, with the coaching, integration and automation assistance you need to get started, and achieve your goals