Labs On Demand
Customer and prospect-facing programs, such as proof-of-concept testing, free trial downloads and training, are critical to your business. But these resource-intensive initiatives can generate spikes in traffic that are hard to predict as you plan your resource requirements. Additionally, various groups within the company are clamoring for resources that are just not available or within budget. You want to be responsive to your sales, marketing and developer teams, but don’t have the resources to allocate in your data centers or colos.
By using the cloud to create “labs on demand” you can solve some major challenges:
- Empower internal groups to respond quickly and cost-effectively to market demands for test, trial and POC environments
- Support remote offices that need to turn on computing resources easily and inexpensively, without loss of productivity
- Maintain control and security policies over cloud usage while enabling self-service agility
With CloudSwitch, you have a flexible, low-cost option to provision on-demand sandboxes where various groups within the organization can conduct the short-term projects they need, and then turn off cloud resources as soon as a project is done, paying only for what they use.
A fast-growing ISV needed to build customer environments on the fly for POCs and testing of new features before rolling these out in customers’ live production sites. The company’s data center resources were fully provisioned and they were having trouble responding quickly to this often ever-growing demand. Using the cloud and CloudSwitch to “spin up” labs on demand now makes it easy for this ISV to test new features fully without impacting their customers’ businesses.
