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Automate your Failure Process
“The end result is a … new system that, if actually deployed, will leave our country more vulnerable than the existing yet flawed system in operation today” Dept. Homeland Security, August 2008 Project name: Railhead…
What Happens when the Internet has more than Doubled?
Cloud service providers are notoriously cautious when discussing outages, service levels, and SLAs. While many trumpet “strength” the perceived risk remains. And it is only reinforced by the massive scale and duration of recent service…
How to Bulk Provision Active Directory Users in a CloudShare Sharepoint Environment
A CloudShare hosted environment is a great way to quickly and easily provision virtual machines for demo and testing. In order to present realistic demo and test scenarios you will want a variety of Active…
Templates are on the menu! (where they always were)
Today we made a simple change – public availability of environment templates. This means you can search and access all of our environment templates directly from the Showcase. If you already have a Team or…
Test Full Production Systems without Touching Production Data!
Where to Begin, How to Begin? When developers need to start playing with new technologies, or testing against requirements, they can’t just begin. Setting up in preparation for a new deployment requires both time and…
How CloudShare’s Virtual IT Labs Helps the Sharepoint Community
(Last updated in 2018) Business groups across the enterprise are competing for, or lack access to, IT resources customized for their specific objectives. With CloudShare’s virtual IT labs, users get immediate access to infrastructure resources…
Introducing More Powerful, Flexible CloudShare!
Dear CloudSharers! We are happy to announce a significant service enhancement to all CloudShare customers. Our goal is to provide developers, testers and managers with a cloud platform that is easy to operate, transparently priced…
CloudShare Automation: Quality Testing Simplified
As software continues to “eat the world”, everything in the development and deployment process is scrutinized and subjected to automation. Whether you find this revolutionary or business as usual, it’s worth considering: What can be…
Cloud Comparison: Cost of CloudShare vs Azure Dev/Test VMs
(Last updated in 2018) Last week we began comparing CloudShare’s virtual labs to general purpose systems like Azure IaaS, pointing out the key features of a virtual lab: automated provisioning, saving, clone, suspension and sharing…
Cloud Comparison: CloudShare Labs vs. Azure Dev/Test VMs
Over the next few weeks, we will discuss CloudShare’s place in the cloud. Our goal is to sharpen the contradictions among these platforms, explain the benefits of virtual labs and highlight CloudShare’s unique features. First,…
Creating a CloudShare Team Labs Environment with SAP HANA, SAP Data Services and Hortonworks Hadoop
BIG DATA AND IN-MEMORY DATABASE Nowadays when you are looking for Big Data techniques you get in touch with Hadoop. If you are googling for an In-Memory Database you will find SAP HANA. These are…
The Road to Continuous Integration and Deployment!
The Road to Continuous Integration and Deployment! Don’t stay behind, your #Dev / #Test team could be much better! Hear all about it from our VP R&D: http://techblog.cld.sr/?p=88 [ Promo Code – CI/CD ]