{"id":11801,"date":"2014-11-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3225959"},"modified":"2014-11-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:00:00","slug":"using-virtual-and-cloud-based-devtest-environments-cloudexpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/using-virtual-and-cloud-based-devtest-environments-cloudexpo\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Virtual and #Cloud-Based Dev\/Test Environments | @CloudExpo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late August, voke, Inc. debuted its \u201cMarket Snapshot Report: Virtual and Cloud-Based Labs,\u201d about how companies of all sizes and levels of testing sophistication view, use and benefit from virtual and cloud-based development and testing technologies. The results were pretty amazing\u2015even we were surprised!<\/p>\n<p>Among the many benefits the 503 participant companies (50% of which were U.S. based) cited, 53% saw reduced CAPEX (capital expenditures) from the use of virtual and cloud-based labs. Thirty-nine percent said they help eliminate defects prior to production, and 33% said they improve audits and compliance. Of course, the biggest benefit (58%) was on-demand access to environments, which we see as a primary reason why many organizations adopt virtual and\/or cloud-based testing, either alone or in combination with on-premise, physical testing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3225959\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late August, voke, Inc. debuted its &ldquo;Market Snapshot Report: Virtual and Cloud-Based Labs,&rdquo; about how companies of all sizes and levels of testing sophistication view, use and benefit from virtual and cloud-based development and testing technologies. The results were pretty amazing&#8213;even we were surprised!<\/p>\n<p>Among the many benefits the 503 participant companies (50% of which were U.S. based) cited, 53% saw reduced CAPEX (capital expenditures) from the use of virtual and cloud-based labs. Thirty-nine percent said they help eliminate defects prior to production, and 33% said they improve audits and compliance. Of course, the biggest benefit (58%) was on-demand access to environments, which we see as a primary reason why many organizations adopt virtual and\/or cloud-based testing, either alone or in combination with on-premise, physical testing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3225959\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}