NeoLoad 3.2 has just been released offering better support for Web technologies and enabling cloud-based load generation.

NeoLoad V3.2 now supports:

• Silverlight
• Siebel
• VMware monitoring
• SOAP web services

NeoLoad continues to be one of the most productive and cost-effective load test tools on the market and is used where web performance is critical in areas such as retail, online gaming and independent software providers.

8th February 2011 - CIO magazine reports that Nationwide Building Society’s web homepage went offline this morning for 2 hours, apparently after its servers couldn't cope with the volume of data.

Customers attempting to access Nationwide.co.uk were greeted with the message “Server is too busy”.

Such problems can usually be overcome using Load Testing tools to identify performance bottlenecks in the system.

Salesforce.com have announced that they have entered into an agreement to acquire Heroku, the fastest growing cloud platform for writing Ruby-based applications.

2nd November 2010

Neotys have announced the release of NeoLoad-CA APM Integration Module, which was developed under a recently signed technology partnership agreement with CA Technologies.

A recent study by Accenture entitled "The Environmental Benefits of Moving to the Cloud" concludes that large organisations can reduce carbon emissions by 30% and smaller companies can achieve reductions of up to 90% by migrating to cloud services.

Fujitsu and Microsoft finalise their agreement on cloud computing services with initial rollout in 2011.

The plan is that Fujitsu will create cloud services for customers in the UK using Microsoft's Azure platform.

NeoLoad 3.1 has been released as the first load test tool on the market to incorporate support for new push technologies such as Adobe RTMP, Ajax Push and Java Serialisation.

NeoLoad 3.1 also offers new features to improve the design, execution and analysis of load test campaigns.

See NeoLoad Load Testing Tool for more information

Dell has announced a deal to buy cloud-computing company Boomi after recently losing out to Hewlett-Packard for cloud firm 3Par.

Story: Dell reaches for the clouds with Boomi deal

Not mentioned in the Chancellor's spending review (but revealed in Treasury documents) was an anouncement of changes to the way the Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme will be aministered.

Originally businesses would receive a rebate based on the reduction in their carbon emmissions from a baseline, worst performers would pay in full.

Authored by Amazon's Senior Manager of Cloud Computing Solutions and released in September 2010.

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