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Surgient's Lab Management Platform 5.4 broadens interoperability

By David Worthington

March 28, 2008 — With the latest release of its virtual lab management software, Surgient has expanded its platform’s ability to work with third-party application life-cycle management tools and prevailing virtualization infrastructures.

Surgient’s Lab Management Platform 5.4 became generally available on March 17. The platform is designed to eliminate manual provisioning by making virtual software environments available through a managed service. These environments can be configured to utilize “bare metal” hardware in a flexible, virtualized arrangement.

The new version adds a Web services API for integration with ALM tools and has an updated add-on for HP Quality Center that improves support for complex network configurations and integrates with Quality Center’s testing tool hosts.

Erik Josowitz, vice president of product strategy at Surgient, said that the integration does not affect any significant change to the Quality Center user experience. People use Quality Center as they would for any testing—defining configurations and scheduling tests, he explained. Quality Center creates a reservation—covering hardware resources as well as mere scheduling—in the Surgient platform, which the platform uses to create virtual environments at the appropriate time to begin testing.

Surgient follows Quality Center’s rules for defect discovery by taking configuration snapshots and sends a unique URL back to developers to reconstitute a particular snapshot, which Josowitz noted could also be used for compliance purposes.

Other notable improvements are support for VMware ESX 3.5 and storage that uses VMware’s VMFS (Virtual Machine File System).

Josowitz said that Surgient is committed to offering a heterogeneous lab solution that blends Microsoft and VMware’s virtualization offerings. The next update to the lab management platform will allow use with Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor-based virtualization software when it becomes available later this year; the platform already supports Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.

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