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LabManager Cloud Edition Use Cases

VMLogix LabManager-Cloud Edition (LabManagerCE) is a virtual lab management solution tailored for Amazon Web Services (AWS). LabManagerCE combines all of the benefits of our award winning on-premise solution with the flexibility of cloud computing resulting in a pay-as-you-go virtual lab solution.

Users no longer have to wait for access to lab infrastructure or for the implementation of a virtual lab solution on-premise but can instead tap into the secure solution available on demand over the Internet. LabManagerCE is ideal for spiky virtual lab requirements (e.g., training classes, or periodic software builds with automated testing) where planning and investing in an on-premise infrastructure is impractical or economically unviable.

Software Test And Development

As organizations grow globally and new hardware and software technologies emerge, enterprises, ISVs and SMBs find it increasingly difficult to keep the lab up to date, efficient, and effective. To improve processes in the test lab and to reduce the total cost of ownership, many organizations have turned to virtualization to create test labs that can maximize the use of limited physical resources and provide an environment that can be flexible enough to setup up and tear down test environments.

Virtual lab automation is a management system for automating the recurrent and labor-intensive manual tasks necessary in software testing, allowing processes and infrastructure to be streamlined and centrally managed. VLA ensures rapid, highly repeatable, resource-optimized deployments of complex, multi-machine build, test, and pre-production environments across virtual machines.

Software Support And Help Desk Services

Organizations are quickly realizing strategic benefits through a shared resource pool that is consumed across the organization, including the software support division (Help Desk). With its low cost of ownership and high level of efficiency, virtualization reduces the capital costs required to build out test labs and shortens support resolution cycle times while maintaining SLA integrity.

Whether employing best practices or developing a support strategy from the ground-up, organizations need a strategy and design that employs virtualization to take advantage of the cost savings, flexibility, and agility through the ability to easily and quickly replicate customer environments to reproduce and resolve defects within specified SLA timeframes.

Training And Education

The effective delivery of training and education requires a significant up-front investment from technicians and instructors to configure the training environment so that it mirrors that of the customer. Aside from the common benefits of virtualization such as saving on costs and on deployment operations, companies are quickly realizing that automation and management tools on top of the virtualization piece are driving even more savings. Since most training labs require that each student have access to a computer (either remotely or locally) the saving are in automating the time for each setup and deployment.

Delivering Software Sales Demonstrations

With the increased popularity of remote demos, and with the perceived ease of delivery, they have become an important tool for showcasing products and services to qualified buyers. However, the effective delivery of remote demos requires a significant up-front investment from sales engineers and product specialists to accurately configure the demonstration environment to make it relevant to the qualified audience.

Delivering effective demos extends beyond sales and touches many other parts of the business. Product managers and tradeshow booth staff also need to be able to provide demos to prospective customers, analysts, and the editorial community. By enabling on-demand and self-serve demo environments, users will be able to access corporate IT resources without the involvement of overworked and understaffed IT departments, and without requiring the help of the sales engineers who are working to help generate revenue. All they need is a laptop and secure connection to the corporate network.