Ravello Systems Tames Public Cloud, Makes It Friendly Place For App Testing

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Ravello Systems, a startup whose founders created the KVM open source hypervisor, launched a SaaS offering Wednesday that lets enterprises tap into the virtually unlimited capacity of the public cloud to test their on-premise apps. This is important because enterprises are under pressure to build apps faster to keep pace with business needs. Many are using Agile development methods, and they need to test their apps in a replica of their own environment to make sure bugs aren’t getting through to the final product.

But, testing apps requires a lot of free capacity, more than most enterprises have available in their data centers. Public clouds from Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Web Services, Rackspace, HP (NYSE:HPQ) and others have plenty of capacity, but the public cloud is very different from the enterprise data center, which means apps have to undergo major changes in order to run on it…

Ravello Systems’ new service makes the public cloud look and feel like an enterprise data center from a testing standpoint, Navin Thadani, senior vice president of products At Ravello Systems, told CRN. With Ravello’s service, "You can take your virtual machine apps, exactly as they’re running in your data center, and put them in the public cloud to test them," Thadani said in an interview. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company launched a beta of the service in February and has been fine tuning it since then, he said…

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