Monthly Archive for: ‘July, 2012’
Website performance strong during opening weekend of 2012 Olympic Games
The London 2012 Olympics started off strong on Friday night as the host country treated sports fans and patriots across the globe to a memorable opening ceremony: a look at country history during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions, a parachute arrival by the Queen and James Bond, and an emotional performance by Sir Paul McCartney. The ceremony attracted a record …
Read MoreIs Twitter down?
Apica’s checks* confirm that Twitter.com experienced an outage beginning at 11:23 a.m. EDT. It remained completely down until 12:04 p.m., recovered briefly, and then became unavailable again at approximately 12:15 p.m. At 12:58 p.m. Twitter started delivering server-side error codes — or a “Twitter is currently down” message to some users. Twitter doesn’t appear to be completely out of the woods just …
Read MoreWhat’s next for cloud application optimization?
You’ve depended on load testing and web monitoring to optimize cloud applications for years. But what if a technology came along that rivaled everything you thought you knew? Let us tell you what’s next for cloud application optimization in our webinar, “A Fresh Approach to Cloud Application Optimization: What’s Now, What’s New, and What’s Coming.” Join EMA Research Director Julie …
Read MoreApica and Kaazing: Why it works
In the past few weeks, I’ve had several conversations about the announcement that Kaazing and Apica are teaming up to deliver performance monitoring for HTML5 WebSocket. I’ve found that many people are still largely unfamiliar with the HTML5 WebSocket standard, so I want to offer a clear explanation of how powerful the technology is, why it will quickly become the …
Read MoreApica hires Palak Patel to grow U.S. footprint
I’m pleased today to introduce you to Palak Patel, the newest member of Apica. Palak joins Apica as the Vice President of U.S. Sales and will be leading the company’s U.S. expansion efforts. Before joining Apica, Palak held various technical and sales-related positions at Akamai. Check out the press release we issued to read more about Apica’s newest team member. …
Read MoreApica announces successful Series C financing
We are excited to share with you that we have raised $5 million in new financing from SEB Venture Capital along with our existing Swedish investors, Industrifonden, ALMI Invest, and KTH Chalmers Capital. We will be putting this funding to use for product development, marketing support, and expanding server and testing capacity for our cloud and mobile testing and monitoring …
Read MoreHow much have cloud failures cost us?
Last week, the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR) released a study that calculated the impact of cloud outages on the economy. The research, which tracked downtime in the market since 2007, had some startling results: In the past five years, we’ve seen 568 hours of downtime at 13 well-known cloud services, which had an economic impact of …
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