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VMLogix transforms Amazon EC2 into a dev test lab

By David Worthington

June 22, 2009 — Development and QA professionals have a new option for managing virtual labs off premises by leveraging the elasticity and billing capabilities of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

VMLogix today delivered a beta of LabManager Cloud Edition, and the company is slated to release a hybrid solution for virtual machine management—in and out of the cloud—before the end of the year.

LabManager CE's management console has an agent for AWS that enables users to load AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) into the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, explained CEO Sameer Dholakia. Agents will be added to support cloud providers over time.

"We are having active conversations with Sun Microsystems' and IBM's cloud development teams," he said. From the user's perspective, the management tool will be the single interface point for managing images, whether they reside in a cloud or corporate data center, he added.

VMLogix will ship another product called LabManager Hybrid Cloud Edition before the end of this year, for customers that prefer to stage their own testing environments. "A hybrid product is the holy grail for pre-production labs," Dholakia said.

Smaller shops and startups without an investment in lab infrastructure might prefer an all-cloud offering, but many enterprises believe that they can manage baseline workloads more cost-effectively than renting capacity, he explained. "That is not true for steady state up to peak demand."

LabManager CE beta customers are charged per virtual machine hour of use at Amazon's pricing. Amazon's billing reports detail QA usage patterns.

Development and testing is a safe place for enterprises to get their feet wet with cloud computing, Dholakia said. "You won't see mission-critical applications in the cloud anytime soon, but you will see dev and test out there. No one will get fired if dev test goes down for 30 minutes, and there is less risk associated with this use case."

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