Optimize the Performance and Stability of Servers, Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructures

Today we are sharing a bit of news, the release of the BreakingPoint Server Load Resiliency Methodology. Faithful readers of this blog know, we have had many conversations on properly validating the performance and stability of a network infrastructure with real-world applications, live security attacks and high-stress load. We all recognize that hardening our network infrastructure goes beyond routers, switches, and firewalls, and must include web and application servers. Understanding how resilient your data center or even cloud infrastructure is to high-stress traffic and attack requires the ability to simulate user behavior and load at incredibly high-performance and throughput levels.

Traditionally, this has been done through software-based server load testing. Software-based server load testing was developed more than a decade ago and no longer meets the requirements of today's high-performance data center. Today you need a solution that can identify the hidden stress fractures that degrade performance and lead to security breaches. And at the same time be massively scalable, so as to generate the proper amount of load without the added expense of rolling in racks and racks of servers.

Today's release of the BreakingPoint Server Load Resiliency Methodology provides a guideline for measuring server and data center resiliency in the face of real blended application traffic and security attacks with load from millions of users. With the ability to simulate these real-world hostile conditions, you can pinpoint hidden stress fractures and calculate a defensible score for the certainty you need to mitigate IT risks and drastically reduce costs. This step-by-step guide, the latest in a line of BreakingPoint Methodologies, allows organizations to:

• Know with certainty how applications and business services will weather hostile conditions and scale to handle peak user load
• Stress and measure server performance using their own traffic and conditions to ensure they get the best return on IT investments
• Gain visibility into never-before-seen areas of their servers and data centers, probing every weakness and vulnerability
• Reduce the costs and maintenance associated with homegrown performance test labs

Download the BreakingPoint Server Load Resiliency Methodology and let us know what you think.