Supporting workers in branches and other remote locations is a growing challenge for IT. The challenge is to provide personal and corporate applications to remote workers while maintaining data security and holding down costs. This has led an increasing number of IT organizations to implement remote application delivery systems based on Citrix Presentation Server or Microsoft® Terminal Services. And Microsoft’s recent release of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 6.0 and planned enhancements to terminal services in Windows Server 2008 promise to drive application delivery into even smaller enterprises.

This paper explains why performance testing of application delivery systems is so critical, how it is done and why nearly four out of five companies using an automated load testing solution use HP Performance Center software.