Dr. Neelesh Kumbhojkar, Principal Architect for Performance Engineering Competency, TechMahindra
Introduction
The ever-increasing pressures on cost reduction, innovation, shorter product cycles and meeting the demands of high quality of the customer are pushing all enterprises to rapidly embrace cloud technologies but application performance is a huge barrier in cloud adaption. Application performance management which comprises of performance testing, monitoring, diagnosis and tuning has emerged as a key contributor to the customer’s Quality of Experience (QoE). The application response time, availability, and scalability improves the QoE, and also helps the cloud service providers to plan for judicious investment in infrastructure. At each layer of SaaS-Paas-IaaS (SPI) model, Performance management plays a crucial role. Performance management is important at SaaS level due to development of a myriad of cloud applications and services, At IaaS level, the testing and monitoring component of APM are immensely helpful from a capacity planning perspective. Performance testing and platform monitoring at PaaS level will help cloud service providers to zero down on the platform they want. Therefore Cloud APM is a huge opportunity as well as a menacing threat today for cloud environments.
Enterprise players can immensely leverage the APM benefits and turn themselves into experience providers (and not just service providers). This tutorial intends to describe the current trends in cloud, cloud performance testing and its need at each level of SPIL Model in detail. The APM players have a critical role to play by developing robust and proven methods, frameworks and processes that can help meet cloud performance challenges. They are the true ‘enablers’ to provide end-to-end visibility as to what is happening inside the cloud space to protect the cloud revenue and end experience, for service providers and procurer both. The performance management should help enterprises achieve short deployment cycles, ‘right-first-time’, improve cloud performance, ensure security. Thus enterprises can respond faster to customer needs, listen to them better, and increase the business volume throughput.
Intended Audience
Business Analysts, Performance Test Analysts, Technology associates, Delivery and Deployment managers, Other who are interested in Cloud Technology and Application Management
Key takeaways
- Performance Testing and QoE relationship
- Relevance of Performance testing in SPI model
- Performance testing methodology and Framework for cloud
Content Flow
- Introduction
- What is performance engineering?
- What is QoE?
- Why QoE and not QoS?
- Business impact & APM need,
- What are tools?
- What are different approaches for APM?
- Introduction to cloud performance engineering
- Introduction to cloud,
- Performance challenges
- Remedial approaches
- 2 Case Studies: 1 off cloud and 1 cloud
- Group Case studies to understand better
- Cloud or off-cloud environment
- Tools
- Test Planning
- Discussion on approaches
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Speaker's Profile
Dr. Neelesh Kumbhojkar, Principal Architect for Performance Engineering Competency, TechMahindra
 An accomplished program manager with total 18+ years of experience, Dr. Kumbhojkar has over 10+ years of IT experience in various fields of IT program / project management and 6 years of R &D experience. He has Delivery/ Program management experience for Performance and Architecture team for CRM implementations Tier 1 TSP. He has successfully delivered multi - vendor, streams and location Projects during the period 2004 -2010.
He is well versed with project life cycle, risks, quality, scope and escalation, change management, and project transitions. He is a PMP and Prince 2 Practitioner and is Siebel 7ccc certified. Well versed with agile implementation he has performed various roles such as Senior technical Associate(2001 -2004), Siebel Application Support Consultant (2004 – 2006) , Project Manager (2006 – 2008) and Senior Project Manager (2008 – Till date). Dr. Kumbhojkar has also published numerous white and research papers in renowned journals and conferences, symposiums. |