Wednesday, 25. June 2008
CohesiveFT’s Elastic Servers Gets Distributed to Skytap's Virtual Lab Platform
CohesiveFT and Skytap have jointly announced a technology partnership to distribute CohesiveFT’s Elastic Servers to Skytap’s Virtual Lab platform. CohesiveFT is a provider of Elastic Server Platform, an on-demand service for dynamic assembly and deployment of virtual machines, whereas Skytap provides cloud-based virtualization solutions.
Under the terms of this partnership, Elastic Server-branded virtual machines will be available as templates in the Skytap Library for deployment to Skytap's Virtual Lab environment. The Skytap Library includes pre-built virtual machine images of common operating systems, servers and applications. With the addition of virtual machine images generated by Elastic Server, Skytap Virtual Lab users have access to these custom images on demand, eliminating the assembly of application stacks by hand, claimed Skytap.
As a result of this partnership, CohesiveFT and Skytap’s joint solution enables:
· Publishing virtual machine images created by CohesiveFT’s Elastic Server On Demand to the Skytap Library
· Browsing and searching of CohesiveFT’s virtual machines through Skytap Virtual Lab’s user interface
· One-click deployment of CohesiveFT’s virtual machines into Skytap Virtual Lab
The combined solution will provide application development and test teams the capability to dynamically assemble and deploy custom application stacks to a virtual test cloud, freeing them from time-consuming build and set-up tasks and the constraints of traditional test lab environments, claimed CohesiveFT.