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Data Center Testing

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Make your Datacenter Investments Deliver

Data centers today are larger, faster and more complex than ever.  Virtualization, different flavours of SANS, faster Ethernet and Cloud Computing bring new and different challenges.

Make certain your Data Center delivers the performance your application users demand.


Overview

Empowered provides Data Center Testing Solutions, to help you:

  • Benchmark Data Center Performance – Find the limits, where and how to optimize end-to-end performance, and confirm that changes have only positive impacts
  • Determine how load, congestion and impairments affect performance and stability
  • Test interconnections between physical and virtual servers, storage, networks and related Data Center infrastructure
  • Stress-test to find limits – How many Virtual Machines does your SAN support?  Under load?  With congestion?
  • Verify storage networking decisions – Ethernet’s best effort approach is not the lossless network Fibre Channel expects.  Different vendors’ implementations are not plug-and-play today, and implementation differences can cause problems as congestion increases
  • Measure Latency with microsecond precision - at 10, 40 and 100 Gigabits/second, microseconds of delay can have dramatic impacts on application performance
  • Establish Service Levels – Understand the availability and response time you can delvier to users and customers, and meet and exceed goals for user experience
  • Confirm priority traffic gets precedence, without starving low priority applications
  • Evaluate Cloud Computing – Validate the performance and security of your Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud offerings, as a provider, or end customer
  • Detect and correct problems early in the development cycle – Reduce Customer Found Problems, development and support costs, and protect customer confidence

Products

Our Data Center Testing Offerings include:


Related Offerings

  • Our Application Testing Offerings help you emulate the application layer traffic of massive numbers of web users, with characteristic mixes of applications layer traffic, including HTTP, email, streaming media, voice and unified communications , Video and IPTV, and the security and authentication mechanisms that control access, remote access, billing and related functions
  • Our Lab Realism Offerings help you emulate network links, and test the impacts of changes in network paths, failover to remote Data Centers and DR sites, and simulate real world networks and extremes of negative testing, with precision and repeatability, and the impacts of malware, denial of service and related security attacks on authorized and valid traffic
  • Our Network Monitoring Offerings enable visibility, monitoring, diagnostics and analysis of the packets flowing across enterprise and service provider networks, and advanced solutions for linking test and monitoring tools to any traffic on the network 
  • Our Security & Forensics Offerings extend network performance and security surveillance with real-time detection and alerting, and “back-in-time” forensics and analysis
  • Our Test Automation Offerings include advanced solutions for managing lab processes and equipment, managing test execution and results analysis, and for automating test cases
  • Our Network Testing Offerings focus on performance, interoperability and conformance testing for network infrastructure, mainly 1/10/40/100 Gbit/s Ethernet with realistic testing of data and control planes, and application layer protocols

Empowered Value-Add

Empowered can help you ensure the performance, availability, security and scalability of new Data Center technologies. Our Experts in Testing combine advanced skills and training with real-world experience.

Empowered can help you:

  • Research testing requirements, standards and methodologies, and align these with your requirements, and metrics for success
  • Assess the testing assets and processes you have in place
  • Understand your available options to do the testing most relevant for your environment, and customers
  • Lay out the business case for any required investments
  • Select the right solutions to address your priority needs, and budget
  • Build and maintain testing expertise within your team, or as a flexible, outsourced service to supplement your team
  • Plan trials of new technology, with advanced tools for load simulation and performance analysis, and skills to evaluate trial results
  • Support you all the way, with the coaching, integration and automation assistance you need to get started, and achieve your goals

 

To learn more Contact Us: 1.877.325.1855, Email