Hybrid Cloud For Development And Testing With VMware vCloud Air

Organizations struggle to meet the demand for scalable and resilient infrastructure to develop and test applications. Developers feel the pain of waiting for infrastructure and of not having an exact replica of the production environment. IT is challenged with providing capacity on demand and with recreating complex multi-tier application environments for development and testing (dev/test).

A growing number of organizations are consuming or considering cloud services to accelerate software dev/testcycles. Cloud services enable them to take advantage of on-demand capacity to deal with these key challenges:
• Limited IT resources force trade-off in prioritizing projects.
• Unpredictable requirements for dev/test result in overpurchasing and underutilization.
• Lengthy purchasing and provisioning cycles for new infrastructure add time and cost to projects.
• Incompatible dev/test and production environments require workarounds that draw out timelines and raise the risk of errors.