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Apica & op5 Partner to Help Monitor Internal IT Performance
PALO ALTO, Calif.–March. 19, 2013—Apica, a leading performance testing and monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, has partnered with open source management company, op5 to enhance the monitoring and testing of internal IT network
Manchester United wins Premier League – on the web
Manchester United has the fastest responding web site in the Premier League, according to extensive tests performed by Apica, an IT company specialised in web performance and testing. Everton has the slowest web site. Surprisingly,
Apica supports your Mobile Application Management
In 2013, mobile devices will pass PCs to be the most common Web access tools. By 2015 media tablet shipments will reach around 50 percent of laptop shipments and over 80 percent of the handsets
Online Black Friday Spending: Best & Worst Web Performance
Thanksgiving weekend: the truest test of website preparation and performance an online retailer can expect to encounter. It is the culmination of months of strategizing and testing, of not only determining the most jaw-dropping deals,
Online Black Friday Spending: Best & Worst Web Performance
Thanksgiving weekend: the truest test of website preparation and performance an online retailer can expect to encounter. It is the culmination of months of strategizing and testing, of not only determining the most jaw-dropping deals,
Online Black Friday Spending: Best & Worst Web Performance
Thanksgiving weekend: the truest test of website preparation and performance an online retailer can expect to encounter. It is the culmination of months of strategizing and testing, of not only determining the most jaw-dropping deals,
5 Reasons Why Your Web Performance May be Slow
The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that this year’s holiday sales will increase 4.1 percent to $586.1 billion. But here’s a wrinkle in the data that nobody really records: The companies that are making money
Lessons learned from the AWS Outage
On Monday, Amazon Web Services — the leading provider of cloud services — suffered an outage, and as a result, a long list of well-known and popular websites went dark. According to Amazon’s Service Health
2013 web app predictions from Akamai Edge
Last week a few of my colleagues and I flew out to Las Vegas to attend Akamai Edge 2012, Akamai’s annual customer conference. The event is a great opportunity to see the latest advancements in
Load testing to detect Advanced Persistent Threats
I’ve written before about how Apica’s capacity planning and load testing tools can help companies prepare for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, but we’ve begun to see a new class of attacks emerge,
Web performance of music streaming sites
For our latest web performance benchmark we decided to take a look at some popular music streaming sites. There are obviously dozens of websites and applications that allow you to listen to your favorite tunes
Test scalability now to ensure a successful holiday season
With just under four months to go until the holiday season, it’s time for IT development departments to get ahead and ensure a successful and scalable season come November and December. Why prepare now? More
