This slideshare presentation highlights three reasons why using vCloud Air for development and testing speeds the software develoment life cycle by providing consistent, properly configured infrastructure, eliminating inconsistencies between dev/test and production, and enabling self-service to improve developer productivity.

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3 Ways To Speed
Your Software
Development Life Cycle
How Efficient Is Your Production Line?

2. When launching applications for your business,
you want to get them through development and
testing and into production as quickly as possible.
Because you know the speed of rollout can
impact your business dramatically—affecting your
time-to-market, revenue, and bottom line.

3. Using cloud services is becoming an enabler for
faster application development. But there are
all-too-common obstacles on the way to production:
• Lengthy IT provisioning cycles combined with budget and
resource constraints
• Inconsistencies between dev/test and production environments
• Time lost to rewriting and reconfiguring code when moving apps
from development to test to production

4. VMware vCloud®
Air™
gets you past those
obstacles—and speeds your way toward
production—with an on-demand
infrastructure-as-a-service cloud that’s
100% compatible with your existing
VMware vSphere®
environment.

5. ACCELERATORS
How does vCloud Air get you past the barriers
to speed your dev/test cycle?
With 3 powerful accelerators:
Get consistent,
reliable resources
when you
need them
Eliminate
inconsistencies
to improve
testing accuracy
Deliver self-service
access and
improve developer
productivity

6. Get consistent, reliable resources
when you need them.
• Get instant access to consistent, properly
configured environments for dev/test built on
a vSphere foundation
• Spin up new virtual machines of any size without
worrying about predetermined instance capacity
• Dynamically scale up or down, avoiding
over-purchasing and underutilization
“When Biomni needs
additional resources to
develop a client solution,
or to test a change
requested by a client,
we can create a new
environment in the hybrid
cloud in just minutes.”
—Angus Gregory, CEO at Biomni
ACCELERATOR #1

7. APP INSPECTOR
Eliminate inconsistencies to improve
testing accuracy.
• Re-create your exact same application
environment synchronized to production standards
• Accelerate time-to-production by migrating
existing virtual machines and vApp templates
without conversions
• Create network topologies that mirror your
production workloads
“With VMware vCloud Air,
we’re able to migrate
workloads and data sets
seamlessly from our
vSphere®
-based private
cloud environment to the
public cloud with very
minimal engineering and
administration from our
IT team.”
—Coby Holloway, Vice President,
Cloud and Business
Transformation Services, Science
Applications International
Corporation (SAIC)
ACCELERATOR #2

8. Deliver self-service access and improve
developer productivity.
• Get the same results testing in vCloud Air that
you’d get with your onsite vSphere environment
• Automate development, delivery, and management
of applications with familiar VMware tools and
processes or third-party tools of choice
• Easily transition applications from development
to test to production with no coding changes
or reconfigurations required
“vCloud Air has allowed us to rapidly increase our capacity for
application testing and deployment and empower our users
to provision their own resources, all while allowing us to
leverage the VMware platform that we already know and trust.”
—Daniel Maxwell, Senior Systems Engineer, Custom Window Systems
ACCELERATOR #3

9. vCloud Air delivers a truly hybrid “write once,
deliver anywhere” platform, providing seamless
portability of applications across development,
testing, and production.
Learn more.
Visit www.vmware.com/go/startingpoints