Press Release : SOASTA Partners With DeviceAnywhere to Launch CloudTest Mobile

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VELOCITY 2011, SANTA CLARA, Calif. – June 15, 2011 –SOASTA, the leader in cloud-based performance testing, has partnered with DeviceAnywhere, the industry leader in end-to-end mobile application testing platforms, to launch CloudTest Mobile, the industry’s first complete solution for mobile application performance testing. CloudTest Mobile with DeviceAnywhere allows customers to conduct rigorous performance testing that includes the end user’s experience on real mobile devices to ensure application quality and performance, even under extreme load.

“As a long-standing SOASTA customer, Hallmark is pleased that SOASTA and DeviceAnywhere are aligned to deliver a complete mobile performance testing solution,” said Cheryl Davis, Hallmark Digital Technical Support Manager. “CloudTest Mobile extends SOASTA’s performance and load testing solution to include testing on a wide range of physical mobile devices. With this combined product, we can now validate that our mobile applications will deliver a positive customer experience across a variety of real mobile devices, even at peak traffic times.”

SOASTA CloudTest is the world’s largest platform for testing the performance of consumer-facing Web and mobile applications at scale. With CloudTest, customers have the flexibility to launch internal and external tests on a single platform that seamlessly integrates internal hardware with private and public cloud infrastructure and test community resources. CloudTest’s patented visual test creation, automated test server provisioning, and real-time resolution allow testing teams to execute performance tests with unparalleled speed and agility, whether testing in the lab or from the cloud.

DeviceAnywhere provides tools for customers to test and monitor their mobile Web and native applications on real devices. DeviceAnywhere’s Test Automation for Smart Devices™ offering automates the unit and functional testing of mobile apps and websites. The DeviceAnywhere’s MonitorAnywhere™ monitoring solution enables production support teams to detect problems early and ensure quality of service for any mobile app or website on any device and network.

CloudTest Mobile with DeviceAnywhere combines DeviceAnywhere’s capability of testing and controlling real mobile devices with SOASTA’s CloudTest Platform. CloudTest Mobile with DeviceAnywhere enables customers to:
* Correlate end-user experience on real devices with performance metrics
* Watch tests in real-time on real devices while the system is under load
* Measure realistic and complete user scenarios under extreme conditions
* Test user experience on real devices from distributed locations
* View end-to-end performance metrics combined on a single timeline from a single dashboard

“Fueled by the influx of mobile ‘apps,’ the mobile Internet is growing at a phenomenal rate, and the market is still accelerating – in five years, analysts have predicted that there will be more users on the mobile Internet than on the desktop Internet,” said Tom Lounibos, SOASTA CEO. “In this highly competitive, high growth market, mobile application developers simply cannot afford poor performance or failure of their apps on any device.”

“CloudTest Mobile with DeviceAnywhere is the only solution to enable user experience testing on real devices at peak load,” said Faraz Syed, CEO and co-founder of DeviceAnywhere. “Businesses recognize that mobile is a strategic channel to be maximized and automated performance testing is a critical element of that equation. Our combined solution will enable organizations to conduct testing on any type of device or traffic volume.”

About SOASTA

SOASTA is the leader in cloud testing. The company’s CloudTest products and services leverage the power of cloud computing to quickly and affordably test consumer-facing Web and mobile applications at scale, providing customers with the confidence that their business-critical Web applications will be reliable and scalable, even under extreme loads. SOASTA’s customers include many of today’s most successful brands, including American Girl, Chegg, Gilt Groupe, Hallmark, Intuit, Microsoft and Netflix. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information about SOASTA, please visitwww.soasta.com.

About DeviceAnywhere

DeviceAnywhere delivers a core suite of enabling technologies to help companies of all sizes bring their mobile products and services to market. DeviceAnywhere’s award winning products provide convenient and cost-effective end-to-end solutions for mobile development, testing, monitoring, test automation and deployment – enabling application developers to bring better content to market more efficiently. DeviceAnywhere mobile testing, test automation and monitoring products are available in a dedicated, private cloud environment. To learn more about DeviceAnywhere and to sign up for a free trial, visitwww.deviceanywhere.com.