The Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) SLA – An Oxymoron
One of the interesting cloud computing topics is the SLA. In my many discussions with most cloud IaaS providers, I have heard them describe the merits of their SLAs. But, in reality, cloud SLA is an...
View ArticleApache POI for Data-driven Tests
Apache POI is the most commonly used API for Selenium data driven tests. POI is a set of library files that gives an API to manipulate Microsoft documents like .xls and .xlsx. It lets you create,...
View ArticleThe Perfect Dev/Test Lab: 10 Principles that make it Possible
In a world where competitive advantage is synonymous with business agility, the reality is that the very software that drives the business typically takes inordinate amounts of time to develop and...
View ArticleJXL API For Data-Driven Tests
JExcel or JXL API is a set of java library files for read, write, create and modify excel worksheets at runtime. It is widely used API for Selenium Data-driven tests. Currently, it supports only Excel...
View ArticleHow to create a CloudFormation stack
The first article introduced AWS CloudFormation as an application management tool, which provides application modeling, deployment, configuration, management and other related activities. The biggest...
View ArticleUsing Jenkins-cli as Job Gen
Well a common use case for doing stuff with Jenkins jobs / configuration [ for example: enabling jobs, disabling jobs, executing jobs etc] is to use Jenkins-cli.jar which is included in your jenkins...
View ArticleAll you need to know to configure SSL offloading – Part 1 – single web server
So you built your application. It is working, running smoothly and most important, you are extremely happy with it. However, at some point two realizations dawn on you: The traffic to and from your...
View ArticleVMware Lab Manager End of Life: what are You going to do?
Ravello’s application editor: your VMware lab manager replacement VMware Lab Manager is a virtual lab management and automation tool. It was first released in December 2006, after a VMware’s...
View ArticleManaging database changes – about flyway, H2 and more
In this post I’ll describe how we at Ravello (www.ravellosystems.com) sync our DB schema and data when refactoring our JPA/Hibernate-managed entities. First, a few words about our software environment....
View ArticleRavello General Availability
Ravello Cloud Application Hypervisor After ~2 years of hard work since Ravello was founded, and 6 months since we announced our public beta, we are now extremely pleased to be transitioning, effective...
View ArticleConsistency of Performance Between Different Clouds
In this blog post, we will look at the consistency of performance of the different clouds that Ravello supports. Getting consistent performance is important. If two identical instances in the same...
View ArticleIs Ravello the Expedia for Public Clouds?
If Expedia not just found you the lowest flight/hotel prices but also made your trip possible in the first place, made the actual travel more fun and reduced the cost of your entire trip… yes it would...
View ArticleSoftware is not quite ready to eat the world: State of dev/test...
Lets take a closer look at what the survey has revealed: As software development becomes more important than ever before, enterprises are forced to look for ways to shorten and streamline development...
View ArticleThe Future of Virtualization
At Ravello Systems, we spend most of our time working on the future of virtualization. This post is the preamble to a series of blogs where we will show you some of the results we’ve achieved over the...
View ArticleProviding Over-the-top Value Services for Enterprise Applications that...
Most cloud providers have their own datacenters and own IT infrastructure. Ravello systems does not have its own infrastructure. Instead, Ravello’s platform runs on top of the existing cloud providers’...
View ArticleCloud-Based Rapid SAP Prototyping & Testing
Enterprise SAP systems are often the backbone of the business. However the complexity of SAP deployments combined with limited internal infrastructure capacity typically makes it difficult to innovate...
View ArticleStart From Scratch? Enterprise DevOps Without Rip-n-Replace
Hyper-agility in software development requires infrastructure and automation that not only keeps pace with development processes but actually helps accelerate cycles and improve overall the online...
View ArticleOne Click Provisioning of Test/Dev Replica in The Cloud
We at Ravello Systems are dog fooding our own technology by using the Ravello platform to develop and test our platform. The build and deploy process of the application is initiated by Jenkins, which...
View ArticleSetting Up Your Modern Cloud Test Lab – Part 1, The Dilemma
This is the first in a series of articles focusing on setting up a cloud-based test lab. This article addresses the rationale for moving your testing operations to the cloud and provides some very...
View ArticleInception: Nested Virtualization, Nested Again
At Ravello we pride ourselves on being experts in nested virtualization. I’ve written about this in our Virtualization 2.0 series. In short, nested virtualization allows us to make the cloud look more...
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