NS Solutions, a Division of Nippon Steel, Selects Shunra to Strengthen Its Network & Application Performance Optimization Offering for Customers

New York, NY,– Shunra, a leading provider of network and application performance optimization solutions, today announced that it is partnering with NS Solutions Corporation, a division of Nippon Steel of Japan. Through this strategic partnership, NS Solutions will resell Shunra’s solutions to its customers throughout Japan and integrate them into its Benchmark and Consultation Center. The Benchmark and Consultation Center provides development and system consulting and management services, and has undertaken over 500 successful client engagements to date.
“With the rapid expansion of broadband networks and distributed computing, there are ever-increasing risks associated with delivering application performance that is stable, reliable and meets service level objectives. By offering our customers an industry-leading product like the Shunra Virtual Enterprise (Shunra VE), we are now able to provide a critical solution that addresses application and network performance issues up front, before rolling out into production,” said Toru Yoshida, Senior Executive Director, NS Solutions. “The Shunra VE also helps us achieve our own business objective of being a top IT solution company in Japan, by providing high-value IT services and solutions that help drive our customers’ business success.”
Shunra VE solutions create a replica of any production network environment so users can test the functionality, robustness, performance and scalability of applications and services - before rollout. Used by network and performance managers, software developers, QA professionals, and operations, Shunra VE solutions are ideal for testing any distributed IT application or service, such as data center relocations or server consolidations, pre-deployment testing of networked applications, network simulation, application-centric network capacity planning, and VoIP implementations.
“Japan is a major business center and at the cutting edge of technology innovation. We are therefore delighted to partner with NS Solutions, one of the leading resellers and systems integrators with wide market coverage in Japan, to deliver Shunra VE to its customers in the financial services, manufacturing and retail markets, and government,” said Boaz Grinvald, CEO, Shunra. “Shunra VE helps companies ensure a successful rollout of their business-critical applications and services over the network. Using Shunra VE will help NS Solutions and their customers with infrastructure investment decisions, reduce project risk, and ultimately ensure that distributed applications meet service level objectives when deployed into production.”
About NS Solutions Corporation
NS Solutions, as a leading information technology solution provider in Japan, provides integrated solutions which address customers’ needs for both business applications and system platforms. NS Solutions provides end-to-end services, including system consulting, planning, design, development, deployment, operation and maintenance, and total end-to-end outsourcing services. NS Solutions has strategic alliances with Oracle, Sun, Symantec, and Checkpoint.
About Shunra
Shunra’s solutions empower organizations to address service level and performance concerns before rollout. The Shunra VE solution creates an exact replica of the production network environment, enabling IT professionals to safely develop, test and experiment with applications and infrastructure before deployment, and effectively plan for growth and change. Tailored for networking, performance and testing professionals, and software developers, Shunra VE facilitates collaboration across IT disciplines so IT organizations can quickly and more efficiently uncover and resolve problems before they impact the business. Over 1,500 leading enterprises and technology vendors worldwide are using Shunra’s award-winning solutions including 3M, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, EMC, FedEx, General Electric, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly Services, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, Nestle, Pitney Bowes, and Vodafone. Shunra’s headquarters is located in New York City, with a major development center in Israel, and additional worldwide offices in the UK, Sweden and India. Shunra is also supported through a global network of channel partners. For more information, please visit www.shunra.com.