Mu Dynamics Teams With Heroku, AppHarbor, Acquia and CloudFlare to Transparently Integrate Easy, Affordable Testing into the Application Developer Workflow

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mu Dynamics, Inc. (www.mudynamics.com), the leader in validating and testing applications and application-aware networks, today announced the integration of Blitz into multiple platforms – making it easily accessible to virtually all developers in the tools they are already using. This integration seamlessly incorporates Blitz, Mu's unique, cloud-based load and performance testing solution, with major Platform as a Service (PaaS), Content Management System (CMS) and web security and performance offerings in use by app developers and website managers today. This integration enables developers to quickly, easily and affordably test the performance of cloud applications without leaving the workflow of their PaaS, CMS or web management applications. With this announcement, Blitz has now been integrated into the platforms of industry leaders such as Heroku, AppHarbor, Acquia and CloudFlare. For more information on Blitz and how it can be integrated into your platform, click here.

Mu Dynamics created Blitz specifically for the fast-paced application development market.  Blitz is now fully integrated into the PaaS providers most commonly used by application developers.

"Blitz integrates seamlessly into our offering, enabling our developer community to quickly and easily test the performance of their apps before going live. They can do this from within our platform and without the need for any prior testing expertise," said Rune Sorensen, CEO, AppHarbor. "This ensures the apps will be able to withstand heavy usage and also ensure the highest levels of performance. Even as they make changes, developers can easily quantify the impact on performance."

"Website owners choose CloudFlare because we make their sites faster, safer, and smarter: they care about web performance," said John Roberts, Platform lead at CloudFlare. "With Blitz's load and performance testing service integrated as a CloudFlare App, our developer customers can measure the baseline performance of their web applications with quantifiable metrics."

"As our customers build complex and high performance web applications with Drupal, they need to be able to integrate performance testing into the development and deployment workflow to ensure that any code changes do not impact end user performance," said Peter Guagenti, vice president of services at Acquia. "With Blitz, our customers can affordably run load tests in a matter of minutes, ensuring their sites can handle traffic spikes before they ever occur."

About Blitz

Blitz is a performance testing solution specifically designed for mobile, cloud, and web application developers.  Blitz is:

• Cost-Effective – Utility-based, tiered and low-cost pricing makes it accessible for development organizations and platform providers, large and small.
• Fast and Easy – Eliminates the expensive and tedious script creation process. Developers can instantly load test their APIs and cloud apps without creating complex test scripts. With the Google Chrome extension and integration with Google Analytics, Blitz brings load and performance testing into the development cycle, enabling developers to simply launch a load test of their application anytime, anywhere.
• Integrated into the application development workflow – Blitz is integrated into the most popular platforms and development environments, with more signing up every day.

"By integrating Blitz into established development platforms such as Heroku, AppHarbor, Acquia, CloudFlare and many more, we are making it easy and affordable for developers to test their apps for load and performance – something that, in many cases, was not happening before," said Ajit Sancheti, Co-Founder, Mu Dynamics. "Incorporating a performance testing solution into our customer's continuous integration model is helping them ensure they deliver a high quality experience for their end users."

Blitz is available now. For more information, including pricing, visit http://blitz.io.

About Mu Dynamics:

Mu Dynamics is the leading provider of testing solutions ensuring the performance and security of both applications and network infrastructure. Mu's innovative solutions enable customers to confidently meet the challenges posed by today's rapidly changing networks. This includes the ever-growing number of applications and devices on the network, and the swift transition to mobile, virtual and cloud environments.  Hundreds of service providers, enterprises, application developers and network equipment manufacturers count on Mu's purpose-built testing solutions to ensure their applications and networks are scalable and secure. Mu Dynamics is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

SOURCE Mu Dynamics