Green Data Centers and Test Labs

Reducing energy demands by virtualizing test environments

New innovations are needed to make our IT infrastructure more efficient for both the environment and for our business. This extends to IT data centers and test labs with the objective to reduce their energy demand and environmental impact.

LISA's virtual test environments provide an innovative solution that can significantly reduce energy consumption and related costs for IT organizations by minimizing the use of on-premise servers, related hardware and related facilities for software testing purposes.

Data center and test lab challenges include:

• Reduce energy demands and carbon footprint
• Lower capital expenditures for new hardware
• Minimize software licensing costs
• Reduce support and maintenance costs for hardware environments
• Reduce facility costs and need for hardware and personnel to be accommodated on-premise

The Solution

LISA's virtualization capabilities simulate complete test environments so that they react and respond very realistically, just like the hardware-based production systems would. By using software-based virtual test environments, you can avoid accessing production system and also eliminate the expenses associated with responders, mockups or stubs. Those responder and mockup expenses include the hardware and power requirements to host them, along with the development costs and maintenance support to operate them.

LISA Virtualize benefits include:

• Substantial reduction in hardware needs and an associated drop in data center or test lab energy demands.
• Virtualization of mainframes and third-party services that have proven resistant to other hardware virtualization approaches.
• Reduced or eliminated software licenses and configuration costs associated with responders and mock-ups.
• Customize multiple virtual test environments to provide productivity and time-to-market gains by enabling more parallel development across interdependent teams.
• Simplified test data management by automating the time it takes to manually set up and extract test data for target systems
• Reduce the need to be in person or physically co-located with the target test systems thanks to reusable cloud-based or private cloud-based Virtual Services of live, constrained systems
• Saves facility costs for both hardware and employees, and remote operation of virtual environments better enables remote work, reducing employee travel costs and time, as well as emissions related to travel.

LISA's virtual test environments, combined with the high automation capabilities of LISA Test and LISA Validate products, are delivering a wide range of benefits to enterprise customers across multiple industries. To learn more about how LISA incorporates the 4 C's and can address critical development constraints and software reliability challenges in your organization, please contact us, or read more about LISA Virtualize, LISA Validate, LISA Test, and LISA Pathfinder.