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TRENDING “ A NETWORK FAILURE COULD MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND AN UNPLANNED SHUTDOWN. Many performance issues can be attributed to flawed network architecture but identifying and fixing such a problem is often costly and time-consuming. A network failure could mean the difference between Business Continuity and an unplanned shutdown. With this twin problem of shrinking budgets and growing network loads, savvy businesses are turning to the cloud to address both issues. Cloud-based load testing creates real-world scenarios by generating loads from global cloud regions to emulate real networks during load tests. Experts agree that businesses need to remain agile to scale up productivity and efficiency. According to Gartner’s latest performance testing report: ‘Application leaders must reduce technical debt and mitigate application performance risks. They should adopt a combined ‘shift left’ and ‘shift right’ performance engineering approach to build a highly productive software development organisation.’ At the end of last year, Micro Focus released a cloud-based load testing service, LoadRunner Cloud. LoadRunner Cloud enables businesses to plan easily, run and scale testing in the cloud, without adding undue stress to existing architectures. LoadRunner Cloud can scale load testing to more than five million virtual user tests and create hundreds of load generators on-demand in over 20 cloud regions around the world. As more and more employees and customers are working remotely due to the spread of COVID-19, ensuring the scalability of your internal and external apps is critical to handle the unprecedented influx of online traffic. Micro Focus is here to help by making it easier for you to identify any performance issues that may arise and ultimately ensure continuity of service. To enable you to find defects and pinpoint root-cause in real-time quickly, we will immediately provide you free-of-charge LoadRunner Family product licenses until July 31, 2020. As businesses push to survive and even expand and thrive during these times, we want to ensure that everyone has access to the tools they need for Business Continuity. Micro Focus is committed to supporting businesses during this incredibly difficult period. Cloud-based hosting saves both time and money, allowing businesses to continue scaling up without the money drain of expanding their architecture. Moving load testing to the cloud simplifies infrastructure management, installation and configuration, and removes the need for the management 26 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com