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Webmetrics conducts informative web seminars on an ongoing basis.  See our latest topics below and view today:

• Load Testing Best Practices and Tools for Site Performance
• A Few Tips for Managing Mobile Performance from Industry Experts
• Load Testing: Best Practices to Ensure Holiday Success
• How to Trust the Cloud
• Are You Losing Control of Your Web Ecosystem?
• Get your Website and Applications Ready for the Holidays – Best Practices
• 7 Ways to Improve Your Web Application Performance – On a Budget!
• Reducing Web Infrastructure Outsourcing Risks
• Load Testing Best Practices

Load Testing Best Practices and Tools for Site Performance

Performance and uptime are no longer “nice to haves” that can be put on the backburner until there’s spare time, or worse, an emergency. To attract and retain customers in today's competitive marketplace, your site has to be up and be fast – which means performance management needs to be built into your website, launch processes, and major promotions from the ground up. 
Join Neustar Webmetrics to learn the latest and most effective techniques for load testing and managing the performance of your site to maximize your returns. You will learn:

• How to effectively plan, execute and analyze load tests
• The latest testing techniques that can simplify your life and make your tests more effective
• Innovative (and free!) tools that can help you speed up your site, quickly and cost-effectively

A Few Tips for Managing Mobile Performance from Industry Experts  

In this virtual roundtable, web performance experts discuss the opportunities and challenges of managing mobile performance. They highlight the top 5 key performance indicators for launching, maintaining and preparing for traffic growth with mobile websites and mobile applications.  The panel includes:

• Patrick Lightbody, moderator, sr. director of product management, Neustar
• Joshua Bixby, president, Strangeloop
• Patrick Meenan, technical staff, Google, and founder of Webpagetest.org
• Michael Sheehan, technical evangelist, GoGrid, and well-known technology blogger
• Steve Souders, head performance engineer, Google

Load Testing: Best Practices to Ensure Holiday Success

The holidays drive more traffic to your website and have great revenue potential, but have you done everything you can to make the most of the season?

Making sure your site is ready requires planning and testing - starting now. Load Testing tests your applications in a structured manner, providing real world validation that your sites and applications are ready to go. Webmetrics has been helping companies successfully load test for over 10 years and we’re looking forward to sharing some of our experiences with you.

Join us to learn about:

• Managing capacity and scalability during high traffic times
• Increasing reliability
• Protecting brand and revenues
• Effectively benchmarking performance

How to Trust the Cloud

The idea of moving key parts of your business into the cloud is scary. You lose control, visibility, and a neck to wring when something goes wrong. What does it take to make the leap? More important than the ROI and the many other benefits is the ability to trust the cloud. This presentation focuses on why that is, how to build that trust, and what to look for when moving to the cloud.

Join Neustar Webmetrics expert Lenny Rachitsky, Head of R&D, as he covers:

• The primary challenges in trusting the cloud
• The benefits companies are seeing from the cloud
• A four-step approach to building trust on top of the cloud

Are You Losing Control of Your Web Ecosystem?

Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Automation and other IT trends are enabling new ways of doing business and creating new process-related interdependencies – i.e. business ecosystems. For you and many of your peers, these ecosystems pose challenges around lack of visibility and control.
 
Join experts from Enterprise Management Associates and Neustar to learn the key takeaways from our extensive research study: “Thriving in the Ecosystem: How Web Application Interdependencies are Transforming the Business of IT”. We will discuss:

• What are web ecosystems
• Who is affected by them and what are the trends
• How to make Cloud computing more effective
• Why information sharing and collaboration are critical to ecosystem success

Get Your Website & Applications Ready for the Holidays – Best Practices

The holidays are right around the corner. If your company is dependent on its online operations for revenue generation or critical business processes, you have to make sure you’re ready to handle the seasonal rush. Downtime and poor performance are not options.

Join industry experts from Neustar as they share best practices for testing your site and applications and preparing your business for the all-important holiday season. Ian McPherson, Senior Product Manager, and Tyler Fullerton, Senior Sales Engineer, will discuss:

• Load Testing for the holidays: When, how and what to test
• Plus, collecting, analyzing and acting on test results to make sure your sites and applications are ready to go
• Monitoring for the holidays: When, how and what to monitor
• Plus, collecting, analyzing and acting on monitoring information to make sure you are prepared for the holiday rush

7 Ways to Improve Your Web Application Performance - On a Budget! 

Budgets are tight, yet your customers’ demands for high performance from your online service are growing.  The good news is that you don’t need to spend a lot of money to make your web applications faster…if you know where to look!

Join industry experts from Neustar as they show you seven great tools, techniques and tips that you need to know for any effective performance improvement plan.  Lenny Rachitsky, Neustar Senior Manager of Engineering, will discuss:

• Free tools you can use today to diagnose and optimize performance
• Simple techniques that will help you build faster web pages
• Freely available online services you need to know about when fine-tuning applications
• How to make the most of your existing monitoring tool

Reducing Web Infrastructure Outsourcing Risks

You’re only as reliable as the weakest link in your delivery chain. Join us to learn how to benefit from the advantages of outsourcing, without suffering from lost revenues and customer dissatisfaction due to deteriorated performance.

Peter Kirwan, Vice President of Strategy at Neustar, will discuss:

• Effectively identifying your partner "ecosystem"
• Assessing the risks associated with your ecosystem
• Evaluating options for mitigating your risks
• Identifying the right solution for you
• Ecosystem Management: monitoring, collaboration and security

Load Testing Best Practices 

Website downtime is not an option. Load Testing helps prevent disasters but figuring out what and how to test is not simple. Join industry experts from Neustar to learn best practices for load testing.

Joel Weierman, Neustar Senior Manager of Professional Services, will discuss:

• Sizing and determining what to test
• Identifying and analyzing performance indicators
• Key success factors for load testing
• Benefits of a managed solution