The good folks at SOASTA have secured $10 million in Series C Funding:
“SOASTA, the leader in cloud testing, today announced the successful close of $10 million in Series C funding as it prepares its global expansion. The round was led by UV Partners, and included participation from all existing investors: Canaan Partners, Formative Ventures and The Entrepreneurs’ Fund. The company’s growth plan includes the opening of offices in Europe, broadening of the reseller channel and increasing its technology roadmap with product enhancements to address the growing demand for SOASTA’s cloud-based testing service.
Today’s announcement follows other significant company milestones. SOASTA recently announced a new partnership with Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC), a leading managed services provider, who has integrated CloudTest into its Trusted Cloud Services offering and its testing and development methodology. The company completed large web-scale tests with Best Buy, Hallmark, Leapfrog, M-Dot Networks, MySpace, Schlumberger, SAP and Zappos.com, and also announced open source support by offering JMeter users the ability to run their scripts in the SOASTA Global Test Cloud.”
About CloudTest
“SOASTA CloudTest On-Demand is a full-service offering. Customers simply describe the web user business process, such as logging into an account, executing a transaction, or browsing content. SOASTA’s team of experienced performance engineers build the tests, provision the complete cloud environment, execute the tests, and work with customers to analyze, fix and tune a site’s performance. SOASTA CloudTest’s unique, real-time metrics and analytics of massive test results data gives customers the performance intelligence they need to pinpoint and fix issues as tests are being run — ensuring greater confidence in website reliability and performance.”
[Disclosure: SOASTA has done business with my firm, Elemental Links, in the past.]
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A great feature of cloud computing is elasticity. If your application needs more horsepower, a compute cloud can dynamically assign more resources. When the usage spike ends, the resources can be removed. However, the ability to scale doesn’t guarantee your application will perform satisfactorily for the additional load. This could be due to a variety of issues, some might be cloud related, such as the additional overhead of running in a virtual machine, but more likely, the application wasn’t built (architected, designed) for scale. A database bound application won’t be magically fixed by adding more computing power.
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Abstract: “We all saw the recent headline: “Obama Inauguration Brings BBC and CNN to a standstill”. In these hard economic times companies are increasingly relying on the Web as their main sales channel. Its use has moved from a convenient option to something endemic. Expectations for reliability (availability & speed) have become much higher. We want the latest updates and headlines, the best sources, and the most answers in the shortest time possible, and with the least amount effort and constraint. Amazon recently estimated that 100ms of latency cost them 1% of their book sales. As such, Web performance has become the new customer service.
Understanding what the user experience will be before you "go live" is more and more critical. Performance or stress testing is no longer an option, it’s an imperative. In this session we will discuss the value of Cloud Testing and real world case studies of customers using it to ensure Web reliability and performance.”
Tom Lounibos is the President and CEO of SOASTA, the company behind CloudTest.
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