DETROIT, Aug. 10, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gomez, the web performance division of Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), today announced that the Gomez global performance network has been expanded by 50 percent, exceeding 150,000 global Last Mile locations and 150 commercial-grade Internet backbone nodes.
The Gomez global performance network is the world's most comprehensive web application performance testing and monitoring network, comprising more than 150,000 Last Mile desktop computers, more than 150 commercial-grade Internet backbone nodes, a virtual test bed of over 500 browsers and operating systems combinations, and support for more than 5,000 mobile devices. Organizations use the network to test and monitor their web and mobile applications from the "outside in" to identify performance issues and their root causes in areas such as data centers, the internet, browsers or third-party providers.
The Gomez Last Mile provides businesses with the broadest geographic insight into how their web applications perform at the "edge" of the Internet on real, consumer-grade desktop computers connected through dial-up, DSL, cable, and low and high broadband. The Gomez Last Mile provides on-demand active monitoring from more than 150,000 consumer-grade desktops connected to 2,500+ local ISPs and wireless carriers in 168+ countries around the globe. Web performance testing from the Last Mile provides object-level detail about the speed and availability of web applications as experienced by real consumer-grade computers -- information that cannot be obtained by just testing web performance from computers located in enterprise-grade data centers.
Gomez's Internet backbone testing provides operational web performance monitoring 24x7x365 from finely-calibrated commercial-grade servers running in over 150 locations in world-class, high-bandwidth data centers around the globe. Organizations use this network to ensure their web and mobile applications are running at top speed and availability across top browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox.
"With the world's largest and most distributed testing and monitoring network, organizations can target in on localized performance issues and their root causes -- information that cannot be obtained by testing web performance from computers located in data centers," said Imad Mouline, Gomez's CTO. "The Gomez network provides organizations with the broadest geographic insight into how their web applications are performing across the entire web application delivery chain, from the browser to the data center."
To build its Last Mile network, Gomez recruits the computers of "peers," including consumer-grade computers from everyday people in homes, small business and other organizations across the globe connected to the web. Gomez customers can instruct these computers to execute web performance tests by leveraging unused processing cycles on the "peers." The growth of the Gomez Last Mile happens organically and virally. To become a compensated peer, please visit: http://www.gomezpeerzone.com/.
About Compuware Gomez
Gomez, the web performance division of Compuware, provides the industry's leading solutions for optimizing the performance, availability, and quality of web and mobile applications. The on-demand Gomez platform integrates solutions for web load testing, web performance management, web cross-browser testing, and web performance business analysis that test and measure web and mobile applications from the "outside-in" – across all users, browsers, devices, and geographies – using a global network of over 100,000 locations. When combined with Compuware Vantage, Gomez offers the industry's only solution for optimizing application performance across the Enterprise and the Internet. Over 3,000 customers worldwide, ranging from small companies to large enterprises – including 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. websites – use Gomez solutions to increase revenue, build brand loyalty and decrease costs.
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Compuware Corporation
Founded in 1973, Compuware provides software, experts and best practices to ensure applications work well and deliver business value. Compuware solutions optimize application performance across the Enterprise and the Internet for leading organizations around the world, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com.
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