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A client we work with recently had an incident, where one of their systems slowed to a crawl, and their CPU usage shot up to 100%.

"But how can this be?" asked the client. "We quadrupled the number of CPUs in that box last time this happened!".

How indeed? What was it doing with all that CPU?

Over recent months the Internet has been awash with reports of corporate data loss. Test data (especially if it is based on a cut from production) is just as valuable to potential thieves or wrongdoers as production data. In this article we describe how data obfuscation can remove the risk of sensitive data falling into the wrong hands.

Last month Richard compared the website performance of Manchester City and Manchester United. In a similar fashion to their early season win over their rivals, City romped to victory with their homepage rendering nearly three times faster than United’s.  David Moyes thankfully wasn’t at fault, and Richard suggested that third party content was a major reason for United’s shortfall.

The roadmap for LoadRunner 12 was presented at HP Discover Barcelona in December last year. Since that time, I've been lucky enough to have a beta copy of LR12 for evaluation purposes. Now that the product has been released, I'm able to share some of the new features that I've found to a wider audience.