Accelerated Application Deployment

You Want It When?

CIO's and engineers are under constant pressure to deliver high-quality enterprise applications more quickly at a lower cost. While delivering quality software on-time and on-budget has never been easy, the task is further complicated by modern multi-tier architectures and multiple versions of operating systems, browsers, and firewalls.

Disparate applications. Discouraging results

Today's applications span a wide variety of architectures and infrastructure configurations-including complex, multi-tier configurations. Developing and testing these applications requires complex environments consisting of multiple physical systems and network connections. These requirements result in significant costs and configuration effort.

For example:

• Applications overwrite common settings in the Windows® Registry, install different versions of components and utilize common resources, de-stabilizing the functionality of other installed applications.
• Different versions of the same application often cannot run simultaneously on a single computer. One version may overwrite the settings or contents of the other.

Because you never know which applications will conflict, IT must spend hours, days and even weeks regression testing them on staging machines and then on production systems before deployment.

Time is on your side

Using today's leading Virtualisation products for development and testing results in immediate improvement in time to market, costs, and quality. With Virtual Infrastructure software, enterprise development organizations can:

• Consolidate servers and desktops used in testing and development.
• Copy exact multi-module production environments 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.

Virtualisation Technology makes it possible to create environments for development and testing that can run entirely on a single physical system. Each system required for a configuration can be created as a virtual machine that runs on a common physical system. Using virtual network segments and virtual switches, these virtual machines can be networked in the configuration required for an application. These capabilities make it possible for application-development and testing to be done more cost-effectively and more efficiently.