SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/01/12 -- BlazeMeter, the load testing JMeter cloud, today announced the first JMeter Meetup for QA professionals and web developers looking to learn more about JMeter load and performance testing.

WHAT:
Attendees will learn about load testing with JMeter, how to easily run a load test in the cloud, best practices, and other issues of interest like regular expression extraction and use cases. Learn from and meet with other developers and QA professionals that use JMeter to test web apps.

WHO:
Developers and Quality Assurance (QA) professionals

WHEN:
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 from 6:30 - 9:00pm PDT

WHERE:
Ground Floor Silicon Valley
2030 Duane Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95054

HOW:
It's free to attend. RSVP to reserve your spot here or at http://www.meetup.com/JMeter/

About JMeter
JMeter from the Apache Jakarta project is a free, open source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of web pages, web applications and other static and dynamic resources. JMeter is an easy-to-use Java desktop application and has been downloaded more than one million times in 2011. Learn more at http://jmeter.apache.org/.

About BlazeMeter
BlazeMeter is a self-service, load testing cloud, 100% compatible with open source Apache JMeter, the popular performance testing framework. An optimal solution for developers and Quality Assurance (QA) professionals, BlazeMeter provides an enterprise grade, out-of-the-box JMeter environment with unlimited testing capacity, comprehensive, interactive real-time reporting and sophisticated result analysis and recommendations. Build your virtual load testing lab in the cloud in a matter of minutes, requiring only a browser with a choice of 7 multi-geo locations, including California, Virginia, Oregon, Tokyo, Ireland, Singapore and Sao Paulo.

Since its launch in December 2011, Blazemeter has accumulated over 2,500 users that have run over 8,000 tests. Among BlazeMeter's customers are first tier enterprises including banks, government agencies, gaming and more. BlazeMeter is funded by YL Ventures.

For more information please visit www.blazemeter.com and follow the company on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BlazeMeter.

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