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SOASTA solutions has announced an alliance with Savvis, Inc. The alliance will give Savvis customers a state-of-the-art, on-demand testing service in the Cloud, enabling affordable, highly scalable load and performance testing of web applications and services. The new “virtual test lab” will be offered as part of Savvis’ new SaaS hosting platform and enablement services. For those Savvis customers preferring to test inside the firewall, SOASTA also offers a variety of virtual and hardware appliances with seamless upgrade to hours in the Cloud.
Hewlett-Packard (HP), Intel Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have announced an ambitious research initiative focused on studying the software, hardware and datacenter management issues surrounding cloud computing. The group’s new Cloud Computing Test Bed is aimed at creating a large, globally distributed testing environment that they hope will encourage unprecedented levels of research. Although several companies are already offering some cloud computing services, Prith Banerjee, senior vice president of research at HP and director of HP Labs, believes that substantial effort is needed.