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Like many organizations, you may have a test environment encompassing multiple, diverse IT assets that require significant staff and budget to configure and manage them. This complexity can result in long test cycles that delay the timing of your product launches. IBM Infrastructure Optimization Services - IBM Smart Business Test Cloud helps you save capital and operating costs, reduce test cycle times, and minimize complexity and risks with a simple-to-use, self-service test platform that combines service request management, automated provisioning and configuration management. On demand provisioning of physical and virtualized test resources—including IBM and non-IBM components such as operating systems, middleware, storage, network, images and data—in a security-rich, private cloud environment helps you reduce capital expenses while gaining a dynamically scalable test environment to meet changing business needs.
Highlights
 |  | | Assists in reducing capital and licensing expenses as much as 50 to 75 percent1 by on demand provisioning of virtualized test resources |
| | | Helps decrease operating and labor costs as much as 30 to 50 percent1 by automated provisioning and configuration of test environments |
| | | Facilitates innovation and speedy time to market by improving test provisioning from weeks to minutes and reducing test cycle time |
| | | Improves quality by helping to reduce defects that result from faulty configurations and poor modeling as much as 15 to 30 percent1 |
| | | Enabled for IBM Cloudburst including the Global Technology Services QuickStart services for rapid implementation of hardware and software |
Offering a self-service, automated platform that virtualizes test resources, helping reduce cost and improve service
In these times of shrinking IT budgets, your test environment presents a unique opportunity to cut costs without impacting your mission-critical production applications. Test environments can be complex, yet critical to offering innovative solutions and meeting changing market demands. Driven by numerous, heterogeneous IT assets, traditional testing requires many manual steps and processes to configure and set up, as well as significant resource coordination and synchronization. As a result, configuration errors and inefficient testing can be problematic. Additionally, spikes in workload can result in additional capital investments.
IBM Infrastructure Optimization Services – IBM Smart Business Test Cloud offers on demand provisioning of dynamically scalable, virtualized test server resources in a security-rich, private cloud environment. A cloud model enables your users to access consumer IT resources in a test center in ways not previously available. Unlike traditional testing methods, this model dramatically decreases the many manual steps and traditional processes of setting up a test environment. With on demand provisioning of virtualized resources, we can help you reduce capital investments while offering the elastic scalability to handle fluctuating business needs. Automated provisioning and configuration help you reduce test cycle times, reduce IT labor costs, minimize configuration errors, streamline the environment and improve solution quality. And, with quick return on investment, our private test cloud provides an excellent opportunity to start transitioning your enterprise IT to a flexible new sourcing model based on cloud computing, without placing your mission-critical applications at risk.
1 Based on results from IBM's Technology Adoption Program, in which an internal "Collaboration Innovation" cloud was developed using IBM technology. The solution has more than 100,000 participants. Results vary depending on the customer's existing environment. Final results can only be ascertained after a return on investment analysis.
