There have been some pretty cool improvements to our software recently that new (and long-term!) users might be interested in. If you’ve been using Scapa a while, it may be a good opportunity to go over what we have added to our software, as it could simplify your testing cycles. A few of the new […]
Scapa has been a Citrix Partner for almost 20 years, working with their core products from the early days of WinFrame, through MetaFrame, Presentation Server, XenApp, XenDesktop and so on. Through that time, our unique technical approach to testing these platforms has meant that our performance testing methodology has stayed consistent and fully backwards compatible. […]
Disclaimer: the results discussed below were found on a vanilla installation of Remedy 8.1. We deliberately chose an older version of the stack for this exploratory post. Scapa has recently partnered with Appcheck NG, who provide a web vulnerability scanning platform. End user monitoring and load and performance testing have been our core activity for […]
Why run regular security tests? As we probably all know, information security is a broad subject and for many of us understanding the different layers that can help within this spectrum can be at times difficult. In this article, we look at the risk and what your business could do about it! Over the years […]
Remedy upgrade – pre and post upgrade performance compared. We undertook a short exercise for a client recently, putting some monitoring in place on their Remedy 9.1 prior and after a hardware upgrade. We set up end user monitoring of certain response times using the Scapa Test & Performance Platform. A simple transaction was recorded […]
we’re proud to be partnering with Thinscale Technology at their stand at Citrix Synergy 2016 in Las Vegas. We have worked very closely with Thinscale over the last few months to validate the release of Threadlocker 3.0. quite simply, Threadlocker puts manners on misbehaving applications by making sure that there is always CPU resource available […]
Welcome to a special edition of our newsletter, bringing you details of what is effectively “part two” of our investigations into the performance characteristics of BMC’s latest release of its Remedy ITSM system, version 9. Read on to find out more about these tests and about our forthcoming Scapa TPP for Remedy demonstration video. New […]
Remedy ITSM v9 Performance revisited In a previous blog post we reported on some initial findings on the relative end user performance of ITSM v9.0 compared to ITSM v7.6.04 and ITSM v8.1 while under load. Since that report we have been working with our partners Alderstone and the BMC performance testing team to further explore […]
We created a quick demo showing how easily our Capture Process Go method can create complex load and performance tests against BMC Remedy. We’ve recently done some interesting work with Remedy 9.0, please get in touch if you’d like to hear more.
This latest Scapa Technologies News Update will give you an insight into what’s been keeping us busy here at Scapa Technologies since our last news update and what we are looking forward to. We are excited to tell you about the BMC Remedy ITSM benchmarking project we’ve been working on with Alderstone Consulting, a product and […]
