Load Testing and Capacity Planning from Rackspace Professional Services

Wouldn't it be great to see the future and ensure your mission critical applications will succeed when you need them most? How valuable would it be to know ahead of time where you'll need to upgrade first?

With Rackspace's load testing you can! Our Professional Services department provides a comprehensive load testing service for your hosted solution.

The key benefits of Rackspace's load testing service:

• Protect your reputation and revenue streams by identifying and resolving issues before they occur in production - Load testing provides the opportunity to see how your application copes with future demand now, so you can address any issues before they affect you in production.
• Comprehensive analysis - Our analysis includes all aspects of your hosted solution including network devices, server hardware and the application infrastructure (web & database applications).
• Results interpretation - We analyse and interpret the data collected during testing in order to provide results that are relevant and easy to understand.
• Receive recommendations to increase performance - Often slow performance is not caused by hardware resource starvation, it's the symptom. We analyse all aspects of your solution, hardware and software, and provide recommendations to you on areas where performance can be improved.
• Receive concrete data on current capacity and future scalability - Load testing will provide you with accurate information on the current capacity of your hosted solution, specific to your application. To aid you in your future scaling strategy, the testing will also show you when and where the solution will require increased capacity first.
• Reports are tailored to your requirements - We'll tailor your reports to suit your needs. We can create reports for a technical or business audience.

During and after the testing we'll provide you with a number of different levels of information and reports, all tailored to your specific requirements.

As you'd expect, our approach to load testing is totally consultative. The key to a successful load test is not only understanding how to generate high load but understanding what the resultant reports actually mean. And not just in CPU cycles and disk I/O, but in a language that your business can understand. The majority of the time we'll spend working with you will be focused at interpreting the results in a way that helps you understand.

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