Start-up aims to simplify virtualized testing

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09/28/05

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Today's focus:

Start-up aims to simplify virtualized testing

By Jennifer Mears

Start-up Akimbi Systems says it has the answer for IT shops
looking to reduce the headaches involved with setting up
multiple test environments for complex software development
efforts.

The company, founded in 2004 by executives from Ensim, a
virtualization and Web hosting firm, last week introduced its
capture-and-restore system. Slingshot is built on virtualization
technology from VMware and Microsoft. It is aimed at letting end
users quickly set up, tear down and store distributed software
configurations for test and development and quality assurance.

* Cutting costs

As software development becomes more complex companies are
turning to virtualization technology to reduce hardware costs
associated with setting up physical environments for each test
scenario.

But the number of virtualized test environments has become
difficult to manage with today's test and development tools from
vendors such as IBM and Mercury Interactive, Akimbi executives
say.

"The problem is because of the increasingly complex nature of
software, gaps have opened up," says James Phillips, Akimbi's
co-founder and CEO.

For example, in many cases IT has to manually set up multiple
system configurations for testers, which can take hours or even
days. And when a tester finds a bug, it's nearly impossible for
developers to recreate the identical software environment to fix
it.

To find out more about the Slingshot software, see:
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Network World. She can be reached at: jmears@nww.com
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