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SOASTA Extends Leadership in Web Testing with Expansion of SOASTA CloudTest™ Appliance Offering


New SOASTA CloudTest Appliances Offer a Range of Affordable, Turnkey Web Testing Solutions with Seamless Upgrade to Cloud Computing Environments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—August 6, 2008—SOASTA, the leading provider of cloud-based testing solutions, today announced three new SOASTA CloudTest Appliances, an easy to use, affordable line of turnkey appliances for day-to-day functional and load testing of web applications and services inside the firewall. Designed to accommodate the fast growing SMB marketplace, as well as provide a new production-level testing capability, they also enable easy access for all SOASTA CloudTest Appliance customers to SOASTA CloudTest Lab™ for more comprehensive and affordable large-scale load testing in cloud computing environments.

"Expanding our appliance line to meet the needs of our growing customer base enables them to affordably test their web applications," said Tom Lounibos, CEO, SOASTA. "The additional CloudTest Appliances offer a variety of testing types, virtual user parameters, and cost structures to accommodate organizations of all sizes."

SOASTA CloudTest Appliances is a secure, robust line of appliances that provide an affordable, turnkey web application testing environment inside the firewall. The combination of a scalable hardware architecture with leading-edge web testing software enables the testing of every layer of a web application or service. It delivers immediate value, offers options that scale seamlessly up or down with testing needs, and does not require investment in a cost-prohibitive testing infrastructure. SOASTA CloudTest Appliances natively support Web UI/Ajax and Load testing.

The SOASTA CloudTest Appliance is available in the following models:

  • UI Test Appliance: for functional testing and light load testing of up to 100 virtual users of Web UIs
  • Load Test Appliance: for AJAX UI testing and load testing of up to 2,500 virtual users
  • Power User Test Appliance: for load testing of up to 5,000 virtual users
  • Production Test Appliance: for 7X24 load testing of production-ready web applications and services.

The combination of a SOASTA CloudTest Appliance and SOASTA CloudTest Lab provides customers with the best of both worlds in testing today’s dynamic web applications. SOASTA CloudTest Appliances offer a leading-edge test environment located inside the firewall for day-to-day testing. A seamless and direct path to SOASTA CloudTest Lab provides customers a virtual test lab in cloud computing environments for unlimited, on-demand, and highly scalable load and stress testing for major releases or marketing campaigns.

Pricing and Availability

The new SOASTA CloudTest Appliances are commercially available now as both physical and virtual appliances. Pricing starts at $1000 per month. For more information, please visit www.soasta.com, or contact sales@soasta.com for a Webex demonstration.

About SOASTA

SOASTA, Inc. (pronounced sō'-sta), is the leading provider of cloud-based testing solutions. SOASTA’s mission is to ensure that today’s Web applications and services perform in a high quality, scalable, and predictable manner. The company’s product, SOASTA CloudTest™, is available as an on demand service in the cloud or as a hardware appliance, and enables developers to test and monitor their Web applications and services at an affordable price. SOASTA CloudTest supports Load, Performance, Functional, and Web UI/Ajax testing. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information about SOASTA, please visit www.soasta.com.

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Editorial Contact:
Lisa Bergamo
SOASTA, Inc.
650.380.9250
lbergamo@soasta.com


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