Whether creating in-house applications or commercial products, NetApp® solutions help software development organizations accelerate time to market, improve product quality, and dramatically reduce cost.
Performing adequate testing to ensure product
quality, while meeting time-to-market requirements and controlling
the cost of the testing infrastructure, is a significant challenge.
NetApp solutions reduce the storage needed for test environments
while cutting the time needed to set up new tests. More efficient
testing results in higher quality and faster time to market.
The traditional approach to test
configuration requires time-consuming physical copies of software
and test data and is not suitable for the virtual server
environments that are now common in test environments.
NetApp FlexClone®, by comparison, is
nearly instantaneous, simple to configure, and ideal for virtual
servers. Provisioning typical test lab storage using FlexClone
takes about 3 seconds versus 27 minutes using the traditional
approach.
If you use virtual servers in your test
environment, FlexClone provides an easy and efficient means of
replicating VMs, dramatically reducing the storage needed to
support your virtual environment while accelerating VM
provisioning. Your virtualization environment may also benefit from
NetApp deduplication for further reductions in storage acquisition
costs.
NetApp provides a complete suite of hardware
and software solutions that address the biggest storage challenges
developers face throughout the software development lifecycle. Find
out how you can optimize your entire software
development storage environment with NetApp.