Shunra (www.shunra.com), the world’s leading provider of network simulation solutions, reports that in a just-released Aberdeen Group study, “The Real Value of Network Visibility,” it was revealed that 100 percent of Best-in-Class organizations are accomplishing their business goals by taking some action prior to new application deployments, including using a simulated network environment, and using this as a strategy for mitigating the risk of adopting new technologies.
Furthermore, organizations using network simulation solutions are 37 percent more likely to improve application response times as compared to all others. And, one-quarter of the study’s respondents reported that they plan to start using a simulated network environment for pre-deployment testing in the near future.
“This study is significant,” said Thomas Charlton, Shunra CEO. “When 64% of organizations that are deploying network simulation report improvements in availability of business critical applications it confirms the importance of pre-deployment testing of applications on a simulated enterprise network. Pre-deployment testing with WAN emulation tools like Shunra Virtual Enterprise helps IT decision-makers yield the maximum possible business benefit in terms of application performance for remote end-users and end-user productivity, plus it minimizes post-deployment performance issues.”
According to Bojan Simic, Aberdeen Research Analyst who conducted the study, “Forward-thinking organizations are taking proactive control of their enterprise infrastructures predominantly because they understand the impact that effective network and applications management has on profitability and growth.”
The Aberdeen study found that Best-in-Class organizations are 35% more likely to use WAN emulation tools, in a pre-deployment lab environment, to predict application performance before roll-out. These organizations have reported significant improvements in their ability to accurately estimate the impact of new technology rollouts on network performance. The report states that “As organizations implement new business critical applications, the ability to estimate the impact of new technology rollouts on network and application performance becomes increasingly important.”
“Predicting application performance which helps to mitigate the gross financial loss associated with unplanned network down time, makes obvious the requisite need for organizations to test before deployment,” said Simic.
Shunra’s award-winning Shunra Virtual Enterprise is a highly robust, comprehensive network simulation solution which creates a virtual network environment in the pre-deployment network lab. It delivers a powerful, flexible and easy way to test the performance of applications and network equipment under a wide variety of network impairments – exactly as if they were running in a real production environment. Helping organizations understand the impact of new technology rollouts on network and application performance, Shunra Virtual Enterprise resolves any related issues before they impact end-users.
The Aberdeen study also underscores that, as the network becomes more of a strategic asset, the seamless deployment of new technologies on the network is increasingly important. It also notes that many more companies, such as Shunra’s customers, are moving in the direction of using application performance and end-user satisfaction as the key indicators of how their network is performing. The study found that 92 percent of Best-in-Class organizations are successful at preventing issues with application performance before end-users are impacted.
Aberdeen Research Analyst Bojan Simic concluded, “As organizations are adopting VoIP, video, and other bandwidth-intensive applications, achieving full visibility into network and application performance is more important than ever before. Expanding capabilities for the analysis of application response times and network simulation will allow these organizations to deal with such deployments in a more effective way.”
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Shunra is the pioneer and market leader in testing the performance and behavior of services across today’s complex networks. The Shunra VE network simulation solutions let users know exactly how their voice, video and business applications will perform in any network environment – before they are rolled out into production. Shunra is the only company to provide integrated hardware and software network simulation products and services that address the needs of all IT groups throughout the application development lifecycle. Many leading companies worldwide use Shunra’s award-winning solutions and services, including 3M, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, EMC, FedEx, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly Services, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, Nestle, Pitney Bowes, and Vodafone. Shunra has offices in New York City, Philadelphia, Israel, and the UK. Shunra is also supported through a global network of channel partners. For more information on Shunra, please visit http://www.shunra.com