The cloud services market is now directly addressing the needs of application developers, with an emerging class of services that provides fast, on-demand provisioning; instant scale up and down capabilities, and support for multi-tier application architectures, as well as workload migration capabilities and a pay-as-you go model.
Accelerating Time to Market:
Application Development and Test in the Cloud
Paul Speciale, Savvis Symphony Product Marketing
June 2010
HOS-20100608-GL-Accelerating-Time-to-Market-Dev-Test-Cloud 1 Software Development and Time to Market
Software development has become a business critical, yet Cloud Benefits for highly resource and budget intensive endeavor for Application Development corporations in a wide range of industries. For many . Agile, on-demand corporations, software is a key enabler of their business provisioning of all data processes, and the availability and stability of that center resources in software has direct impact on corporate revenues and under an hour, through customer satisfaction. A major transition is also occurring self-service access in the world of software development, as traditional Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) transform . Multiple service levels to themselves into Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors to address the wide ranging deliver applications in the new streamlined world of cloud requirements of the computing. For example, the delivery of consumer oriented application lifecycle financial, tax and investment software has become an . extremely prevalent SaaS solution, as applications that Fast scale-up or scale-
were previously only available as host or desktop based down of resources, with
software, are now delivered as secure online application usage-based billing
services to thousands of concurrent users. For SaaS . Support for virtual vendors, a major driver of their business success hinges on environments and multi-speeding time to market for these key applications, as any tier application additional months and quarters of providing online services architectures directly accelerates revenue, and therefore impacts their . financial bottom line. In addition, the SaaS delivery model Migrate existing virtual itself aids companies in accelerating their time-to-market, server images and as the vehicle for application delivery is directly over the workloads into the cloud Internet, rather than traditional style packaged distribution, or downloadable modules.
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SaaS Application Delivery Model
In many vertical industries, delivering in-house applications in a timely manner can also impact the business dramatically. For manufacturing companies, new software development can involve the delivery of a critical design or simulations application for new products that need to be brought to market. In media and entertainment companies, creating a new brand or event specific web site can accelerate end-user traffic, thereby driving advertising
HOS-20100608-GL-Accelerating-Time-to-Market-Dev-Test-Cloud 2 which can have material impact on revenues. In the financial services industry, the need to provide new online capabilities for trading, portfolio and wealth management impacts customer attraction and retention. Clearly, the speed at which software applications can be developed, tested and brought into production is a critical factor for thousands of corporations worldwide. For many such corporations, any solution that accelerates the time to market for key software applications will have an immediate and measurable return on investment.
An emerging class of cloud services delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) stands to become a critical enabler of rapid application development, as many SaaS vendors and in-house development organizations will choose to employ them for application development and test, as well as production deployments.
Bottlenecks in Software Development
Application developers work in highly dynamic environments, whereas IT administrators prefer to create development environments that are more static development static in nature, to provide much needed stability. These opposing requirements have been at odds for years, and provide a key insight into the lack of software development productivity.
For application developers, there is a regular need to build up new environments to design, write or debug code and compile software. This requires specific environments consisting of the proper libraries and tools. In many cases, these environments ar... [download for more]
