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DynamicOps Lab Management Solution

DynamicOps provides a unique platform for lab management while opening the gateway for a single, unified cloud solution across your entire organization.

Virtualization is a natural fit for the dynamic nature of development and test labs. However, because enterprise developers can quickly deploy complex testing and development virtual environments, significant challenges arise when managing these highly transient environments. DynamicOps helps IT rapidly respond to the ever-changing needs of lab environments through a self-service capability that automates VM creation, ensuring that VMs are provisioned according to IT policy, and that tracks the entire VM lifecycle so unused VMs are reclaimed—guaranteeing that your resources are never wasted.

“In the case where self-provisioning for virtualized servers has been deployed, DynamicOps enabled us to reduce our provisioning lead times from weeks to minutes. This has resulted in more efficient server utilization and lower capital costs.”

-Stephen Hilton, Managing Director, Enterprise Servers and Storage, Credit Suisse

DynamicOps helps lab environments by:

Quickly providing developers with the resources they need without burdening IT

  • The DynamicOps platform provides end-to-end automated management and self-service of virtual environments for developers and QA.
  • IT maintains administrative control of fast-changing environments while developers have on-demand access through a self-service portal to rapidly provision test environments, enabling them to get software products to market faster.
  • With on-demand management, virtual machines can be easily reconfigured, restored to their original “clean” configurations, or decommissioned
  • Reserve resources for development and production, but dynamically reallocate to meet peak demands.
  • Monitor and enforce compliance for costs and usage in development and test environments.
  • Ensure strict authentication, role-based access control, and comprehensive audit trails.

Creating a best-of-breed technology solution today while future-proofing your lab environment.

  • DynamicOps unifies disparate technologies into a best-of-breed solution so all aspects of developer requirements are met, including automation and orchestration of VM and non-VM related resources, such as databases.
  • DynamicOps Operations Virtualization™ ensures abstraction from the technologies below it so they can easily be switched out as more optimal solutions come to market, without disrupting the development and QA process.

Enabling the foundation for a single cloud solution across the entire enterprise and beyond

  • The DynamicOps platform is a unified solution for both development and production environments, ensuring you can maximize the platform’s value and ROI across your organization.
  • DynamicOps easily extends your options for lab capacity to private public and hybrid clouds, ensuring the needed compute power and capacity are always available.