IBM Smart Business Test Cloud
Like many organizations, you may have a test environment encompassing multiple, diverse IT assets that require significant staff and budget to configure and manage them. This complexity can result in long test cycles that delay the timing of your product launches. IBM Infrastructure Optimization Services - IBM Smart Business Test Cloud helps you save capital and operating costs, reduce test cycle times, and minimize complexity and risks with a simple-to-use, self-service test platform that combines service request management, automated provisioning and configuration management. On demand provisioning of physical and virtualized test resources—including IBM and non-IBM components such as operating systems, middleware, storage, network, images and data—in a security-rich, private cloud environment helps you reduce capital expenses while gaining a dynamically scalable test environment to meet changing business needs.
Highlights
- Assists in reducing capital and licensing expenses as much as 50 to 75 percent1 by on demand provisioning of virtualized test resources
- Helps decrease operating and labor costs as much as 30 to 50 percent1 by automated provisioning and configuration of test environments
- Facilitates innovation and speedy time to market by improving test provisioning from weeks to minutes and reducing test cycle time
- Improves quality by helping to reduce defects that result from faulty configurations and poor modeling as much as 15 to 30 percent1
- Enabled for IBM Cloudburst including the Global Technology Services QuickStart services for rapid implementation of hardware and software
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