This document discusses Kubisys, a platform that provides production-based test environments on demand for development, QA, and other purposes. It highlights several awards and recognition Kubisys has received. It then provides details on how the Kubisys platform works, capturing production environments to create accurate test copies in a cost-effective automated way. Examples are given of customers in different industries using Kubisys to address challenges around building and maintaining realistic test environments. The document outlines key benefits like reduced risk, improved time-to-market, and cost savings.

1. The Power to Create the Most Accurate
and Complete Environments –
Production Based Labs
KUBISYS

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The Kubisys Platform

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2011 – 01 CRN:
10 HOT EMERGING VENDORS
2011 - 09 MES – West:
BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY VENDOR
2011 - 11 MM CIO Forum 2011:
BEST MIDMARKET SOLUTION
2012 - 04 MM CIO Forum 2012:
MOST INNOVATIVE MIDMARKET
SOLUTION
2012 - 05 MES – West:
MOST INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY
VENDOR
2013 - 04
2013 - 04 MM CIO Forum 2013:
BEST EMERGING MIDMARKET SOLUTION
2015 - 04 MM CIO Forum 2015:
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE (PARTNER
VENDOR)
2015 - 10 MM CIO Forum 2015:
BEST MIDMARKET SOLUTION
(HARDWARE)

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Provision Environments On-Demand
Accurate – environments
created from live Production
snapshot assuring relevance
and accuracy
Cost Effective – fully
automated and leverages thin
provisioning for storage savings
Production Servers
Staging
Quality Assurance
Development Sandbox

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How does it work?
http://portal.sliderocket.com/Kubi
sys/How-does-it-work-

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Application Interface
Environment Overview
Discovered Servers
Selected Environment

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End User Interface
RDP info link

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Accessing Servers in the Capture – Port
Forward
Typical protocols forwarded are:
• RDP (port 3389)
• HTTP (port 80)
Captured destination be:
• Server
• Workstation
• Terminal Server

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Production Servers
port
port

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Two Primary Capture Modes
QA/DevStaging
Thin Capture
Thick Capture
“save shadow”

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Architecture/ Engineering Firm
SharePoint Development
Customer SharePoint
Farm:
• 800+ knowledge
workers
• 20 sites across the
US
Challenge:
• Difficult to setup
staging with multi-
application
dependencies
• Large production
databases needed
for realistic testing
• Network isolation
• Replicating
production
configuration
• Refreshes

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Kubisys at High Level
Cloud
Ext. Solutions
Dev, Ops, QAProduction Servers
Kubisys Platform is a fully
orchestrated Production Based
Lab solution – purpose-built to
create and host various Test
environments (STAGE, QA, DEV)
from Production Snapshots in a
fully automated manner

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3 Major Pain Points
1. Current Test
Environment is not
close enough to
production
2. Build/ Refresh of Test
Environment takes too
much time/ effort/ cost
3. Not enough Test
Environments for QA/
Dev

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3 Major Pain Points
1. Current Test
Environment is not
close enough to
production
2. Build/ Refresh of Test
Environment takes too
much time/ effort/ cost
3. Not enough Test
Environments for QA/
Dev
• Not enough scope (e.g.,
DMS w/o Exchange.)
• The data set is not
current.
• Configurations are very
different (e.g., different
domain, different
hostnames.)

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3 Major Pain Points
1. Current Test
Environment is not
close enough to
production
2. Build/ Refresh of Test
Environment takes too
much time/ effort/ cost
3. Not enough Test
Environments for QA/
Dev
• Cross-functional effort to
building out an
environment.
• Various manual steps
involved.
• After each test, the
environments need to be
refreshed again.

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3 Major Pain Points
1. Current Test
Environment is not
close enough to
production
2. Build/ Refresh of Test
Environment takes too
much time/ effort/ cost
3. Not enough Test
Environments for QA/
Dev
• Developers often step on
each other when forced
to share Test
Environments.
• Lack of Test
Environments forces
serialization of work, and
creates a bottleneck.

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Primary Use Cases
» Application Support
• Development
• QA/UAT
• Application Patches and Upgrades
• Training
» Infrastructure Support
• Server Patch/Update Validation (Compliance)
• Validate Configuration Changes (e.g. Active
Directory)
• DR Planning, Testing & Tuning

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Multi-National Law Firm
SharePoint Staging
SharePoint Portal:
• Supports 1000+ lawyers
• Major cities across the
world
Challenge:
• Deploy complex vendor plug-in into production
• Continuous SP Integration
• Traditional staging slow and inaccurate
• Self Service – reduce dependence on Ops to deliver staging

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Business Values
Reduce Risk (More than 60% of downtimes are
software change related)
• Highly accurate and complete Staging
Environments reduce incidents by 50% or more
Improve time-to-value/time-to-market
• Enable Complex Changes
• 25% to 50% reduction in time to delivery
Cost Reduction
• Save across all resource categories