Rethink Server Load Testing

A methodology to measure the resiliency of application and web servers under real-world network conditions

 

What is the capacity of your data center? Will it withstand peak user load? What about attack? Will a simple distributed denial-of-service attack disrupt critical business transactions? And what about those new high-performance enterprise servers you are evaluating? Will they really live up to the promises promoted in the vendor’s data sheet?

If you cannot properly measure your servers’ performance, security and stability, you won’t have any defensible answers to these questions. Your business performance and reputation are at risk, and it’s time to rethink server load testing to harden your data center and establish server load resiliency.

Measuring server load resiliency is about knowing how they will weather hostile conditions, including attack and extreme load, and optimizing your overall performance to drive business results. Understanding the resiliency of your data center or cloud infrastructure, in the face of high-stress traffic and cyber attack, requires the ability to simulate user behavior and load at incredibly high performance and throughput levels. Software-based server load testing, developed more than a decade ago, no longer meets today’s mega-data-center requirements.

BreakingPoint has created a next-generation server load testing methodology, which provides a guideline for measuring server and data center resiliency in the face of real-world application traffic, live security attacks and the stress from millions of users. With the ability to simulate these real-world hostile conditions using the BreakingPoint Cyber Tomography Machine, you can pinpoint hidden stress fractures and calculate a defensible resiliency score for the certainty you need to mitigate IT risks and drastically reduce costs.

With the breakthrough power of cyber tomography, BreakingPoint provides realistic network simulation of millions of simultaneous user sessions with blended, realistic application traffic from a small footprint product, eliminating costly racks of servers and software licenses. BreakingPoint products can help you stress and score your critical network infrastructure with real-world network conditions to:

  • Reduce risks associated with data center consolidation or migration
  • Improve availability and performance to reduce outages and prevent lost customers, revenue and productivity
  • Measure and optimize capacity to deliver the right balance of performance, security and stability in the face of escalating traffic volume
  • Assess resiliency against attack and data loss to mitigate security breaches
  • Make better IT investment decisions and eliminate the need for sprawling performance and security test labs
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