Automated Software Quality Vendor Profile: Targeting Service Virtualization, Skytap Evolves Quality Strategy

Published by: IDC

Published: Dec. 2, 2012 - 6 Pages

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Abstract

This IDC Vendor Profile is one in a series of IDC documents that examine automated software quality (ASQ) solutions and provide both vendor analysis and customer reference context for technology adoption. This Vendor Profile assesses the ASQ strategy and position of Skytap, a vendor targeting the application performance management, load testing, analytics, and mainframe testing arenas. Here, we discuss Skytap's Skytap Cloud service virtualization cloud testing product. Skytap's targeted product capability positions the company well in the cloud testing area for IDC's ASQ analysis. We position Skytap within this product category and relative to trends in user adoption for the provisioning testing for ASQ SaaS and cloud and for the enterprise ASQ markets (given demand for cloud testing on the part of enterprises). We do so in the context of an overall economy that remains volatile and demands efficient access to software quality and deployment. We also include summaries of two Skytap user reference case study summaries: a space management firm and a disaster recovery company. These companies need to scale and manage infrastructure in the cloud without having to invest capital to enable the ability to maintain consistency between development and test environments and to easily clone environments and cycle through to testing. Use of Skytap's products enabled these references to help solve the problem of independent developers and testers working on separate workstations to help enable collaboration via shared infrastructure as a service to increase efficient resource allocation as part of the testing and deployment process. Also, the ability to maintain snapshots of environments at a relatively low storage cost once development was complete was also a driver for these references. These reference examples demonstrate Skytap's focus and relevance for testing and service virtualization.

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