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Development and testing for today’s enterprises is a complex undertaking, and companies are under constant pressure to deliver high-quality applications faster and at lower cost.
The process is further complicated by modern multi-tier architectures and multiple versions of operating systems, browsers, and firewalls, geographically distributed teams, and resource conflicts.
Challenges of Developing, Testing and Deploying Applications
One of the biggest challenges for today's development and testing is high hardware resource requirements. Development engineers now typically need up to four physical systems for application development and functional testing.
Developers also have to validate applications on multiple versions and service packs of operating systems, where each OS is installed on a separate physical machine.
Developers also have to validate applications on multiple versions and service packs of operating systems, where each OS is installed on a separate physical machine.
The situation is also challenging in testing centers, as test server resource conflicts may result in projects being stalled for weeks at a time. The number of servers in the test labs is limited by budgets and by space and power constraints.
These issues lead to long testing cycles, contention for QA hardware resources by different applications, idle period during setup time, and the inability to temporarily switch to QA of a different application if a high priority defect surfaces.
VMware Virtualisation technology changes the game for development and testing. Development and testing environments are abstracted from the physical systems that execute workloads.
VMware Virtualisation technology allows multiple operating systems and software applications to run concurrently in virtual machines on a single computer. This technology also supports the creation of a library of encapsulated development or testing environments that can be instantly deployed to any physical machine with spare hardware capacity.
These issues lead to long testing cycles, contention for QA hardware resources by different applications, idle period during setup time, and the inability to temporarily switch to QA of a different application if a high priority defect surfaces.
VMware Virtualisation technology changes the game for development and testing. Development and testing environments are abstracted from the physical systems that execute workloads.
VMware Virtualisation technology allows multiple operating systems and software applications to run concurrently in virtual machines on a single computer. This technology also supports the creation of a library of encapsulated development or testing environments that can be instantly deployed to any physical machine with spare hardware capacity.
Using VMware virtualisation solutions from LinuxIT for development and testing results in immediate improvement in time to market, costs, and quality. With VMware software, enterprise development organisations can:
- Enable faster provisioning of test builds
- Consolidate servers and desktops used in test and development
- Copy exact multi-module production environment into virtual machines for testing
- Share complete environments among different teams
- Eliminate repetitive configuration tasks from development and testing cycles
- Simulate complex multi-tier applications on a single physical platform
Our technical team has developed "off the shelf" appliances to host multiple virtual servers allowing you to only purchase standard editions of the software licenses you use today.
We kept it simple. Our appliances allow you to do what you do today, adding consolidation benefits, load balancing and high availability.
Cost savings of around 30% year on year are achieved on licensing, hardware and support.
