Sun Cloud Partner Lightning Talk

VMLogix just announced its first Cloud offering: LabManager Cloud Edition. It's now open to a limited beta where we will be collecting feedback before an open beta in a few months.

In preparation for this launch, our partners at Sun Microsystems granted me a 5 minute speaking spot during the Cloud Lightening talks during Community One West.

I had a lot to cover in a few minutes, but the main points were:

1. Cloud solutions will be adopted by developers first because they are by nature the people that like to tinker with new technology (and use it to tackle old problems)
2. The development and test lab is a natural, low risk area to start experimenting with the cloud. Especially compared to production or even UAT/Staging systems.
3. Cloud computing solves real problems in dev/test - such as faster provisioning of complex environments, better test matrix coverage and better issue reproduction.

I close it off explaining that the pay as you go model is especially attractive in the dev/test lab because demand is often spiky.

Sun posted the entire talk over at Sun Channel. You'll find plenty of other speakers and coverage there too.



Sun Cloud partner Jim Singh, Director of Technology at VMLogix, delivers a five-minute lightning talk on using the Sun Cloud for Virtual Lab Automation solutions.