Virtualization and Cloud Automation

Many development organizations are migrating from physical to virtual and cloud based infrastructure. ElectricCommander® integrates with both virtual infrastructure and cloud solutions in the same way that it leverages physical hardware. ElectricCommander provides additional benefits for these development organizations by dynamically provisioning virtual and cloud resources for build, test and deployment processes. Among other advantages, this allows businesses to take full advantage of the virtual and cloud resources while avoiding wasted CPU cycles and extra costs due to VM sprawl. ElectricCommander features out-of-the-box integration with many of the leading virtualization and cloud providers including VMware®, Microsoft®, Amazon and Eucalyptus.

This solution creates a "self-service" environment where build, test, and deploy processes can be run without manual provisioning of the virtual or cloud resources by the developer or IT. Specific benefits include:

• Dramatic reduction of wasted CPU cycles and maintenance costs for the virtual and cloud resources
• Reduction of effort required to configure and use development, QA and production environments
• Improved quality through early, frequent testing on all target environments and configurations
• Reduced dependence by development on IT

Challenge				Impact				Electric Cloud Solution
Maintaining infrastructure that is costly and underutilized				Organizations losing money by purchasing and maintaining underutilized hardware				When used in conjunction with virtualization and cloud systems, ElectricCommander can dynamically provision either physical or virtual resources without manual intervention from IT operations
Time-consuming and labor-intensive for IT to provision development with all required environments				Developers either can't validate on all target environments prior to integration builds, or they must wait for IT operations to provide new configurations				Allows end-users to easily configure, run and re-use processes and scripts the same way they configure, run and re-use virtual machines
Processes and tools not automated or optimized for virtual lab environment				Development teams cannot take full advantage of flexible, self-service virtualized environment				Unified process automation across the entire build/test/deploy lifecycle and across both physical and virtual machines
Difficult to reproduce environments after the fact				Difficult to effectively diagnose problems				Virtual build or test environments that can be versioned and recreated for troubleshooting or auditing

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