Managed Test/Dev Environment Services
Application server and middleware platform development environments have grown increasingly complex and resource-intensive. Many of our clients have tremendous difficulty managing the developer workstations and test environments that host middleware and Integrated Design Environments (IDEs) for today's service-oriented infrastructure platforms:
- Developer workstations are often resource-constrained for a given IDE (e.g., not enough processing power, memory, etc.).
- Rolling out patches to development environments is extremely complex and error prone.
- Many development environments are under-utilized or sit idle, consuming license entitlements and resources.
- Complexity and expense of environment set-up often leads to cutting corners in integration testing. This is particularly challenging in multi-product upgrade or migration projects.
Cloud delivery completely changes the economics of managing test and development environments. Increasingly, our customers cannot justify on-premise operational expense, given the tremendous economy of scale from utility-style consumption of compute resources during early stages of SDLC.
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise is an agile, cloud-computing, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), designed to provide rapid access to security-rich, enterprise-class virtual server environments. It is well-suited for development and test activities and other dynamic workloads. Using the IBM SmartCloud, Haddon Hill Group has marshaled years of operational excellence in data center optimization and virtualization to offer test and development environments for application and middleware infrastructure as a utility service.
Our customers use HHG's IBM SmartCloud Managed Test/Dev Environment Services offering to tailor specific images that ensure consistent environments across development and testing, on a "Bring Your Own License" basis. This includes environments like:
- WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit,
- Rational Software Architect / Rational Application Developer,
- IBM Integration Developer,
- IBM Integration Designer,
- WebSphere Transformation Extender Design Studio,
- and others.
Additionally, customers can work with HHG to design enterprise-specific complex server topologies for sophisticated regression testing against fully integrated, multi-product environments that would take months to provision on-premise. All of these environments can be switched on or off as needed, resulting in more cost effective usage and dramatically reduce operational costs.