Citrix OpenCloud Dev and Test solution is a turnkey, cost-effective solution for development and test workloads. Organizations are constantly challenged with balancing budgets for testing and development processes, managing the turnaround times required for IT teams to set up and allocate new infrastructure, and dealing with reduced overall utilization levels of these workloads because of their bursty nature. Virtualization and on-demand provisioning of these workloads, either within the organization’s own virtual private cloud or a via a public cloud infrastructure, provide an effective means of addressing the challenges.
Solution offering
Citrix OpenCloud solutions bring together the right components to address the overall development and test workloads, in a turnkey manner, and facilitate the overall application lifecycle. As an integral part of the solution, Citrix® XenServer® and Citrix® NetScaler® VPX provide the foundational elements for server and network infrastructure virtualization, respectively. Additional technologies include:
Citrix CloudBridge and secure Citrix CloudAccess support hybrid computing models in which on and off cloud components interact with one another.
Solution components support authoring of various development and test topologies as a library of templates.
Advanced capabilities support automation within typical workflows, tooling support, and out-of-the-box availability of typical development and test environments, while providing the flexibility to accommodate an enterprise’s unique needs.
Enterprise benefits
The Citrix OpenCloud Dev and Test solution provides many benefits to enterprises, including:
Better cost control with no compromise in meeting variable capacity requirements.
Rapid turnaround and reduced IT project lead times via on-demand, self-provisioning development and test environments.
Improved application performance and reduced deployment times by identifying application-network interoperability issues earlier in the application lifecycle.
