Actionable Benefits Across the Entire Enterprise
StackSafe™ Test Center imports live software infrastructure stacks into a safe, protected and automated testing platform. This provides IT Operations teams with rapid insight into the potential impact that configuration changes, performance tuning, compliance efforts and security controls could have on critical business processes. Test Center delivers unique and measurable product and stakeholder benefits in the following areas:
Product Benefits
- Reduces the uncertainty and downtime associated with IT changes, thus avoiding costly application and system failure
- Allows pre-production changes to be made safely before they are implemented into the live environment
- Helps IT Operations teams to understand the potential impacts that changes could have on their environment—before they impact production systems
- Enables IT Operations to be more responsive to dynamic and changing business process requirements
- Improves IT confidence in changes, while reducing the percentage of IT time spent on testing and staging—which can significantly lower IT operating costs
Stakeholder and Partner Benefits
- CIOs benefit from the knowledge that IT can respond to changes and services without causing unplanned downtime
- IT Operations managers can make informed and confident decisions about implementing changes to production applications
- IT architects and enterprise architects can test ”what-if” scenarios against production systems
- Application support specialists and database administrators (DBAs) can learn the effect that changes will have on applications before they touch a production server
- Release/change managers can use Test Center to understand the impacts of the implemenation of proposed changes
- CxOs and LBOs can implement routine software patches and configuration changes without disrupting their business processes and workflows
- Security managers can analyze the causes of security incidents without impeding the efforts to get systems back up and running
- Compliance/audit/risk managers can ensure responsible and effective IT practices that will not endanger stakeholders and customers
- Outsourcers/managed service providers can achieve maximum uptime by creating accurate impact analyses for a wide range of data center operations
- ISVs and toolmakers can bundle Test Center into their demo software kits and allow prospective customers to test software in a virtualized evaluation environment
