FAST! Continuous Integration for Android using the Android Emulator on Amazon...
In just a few years, Continuous Integration has become a standard practice for software development teams around the world. CI promises, and delivers, significant benefits in code quality and agility....
View ArticleAutomatic VM export from vCenter and import to AWS/ Ravello; 25TB disk size –...
Over the last one month, we have been focused on several core features and enhancements to the Ravello service. Here are a couple of highlights. 1. New VM import system Our existing upload tool relied...
View ArticleWhy the Android emulator runs very slowly on AWS & Google cloud – and how you...
If you have ever tried running the Android emulator on AWS, you have probably seen that it is really slow. In fact, its so slow that its practically not usable. The reason for this is that the Android...
View ArticleSoftware Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)...
In this blog post, we will be talking about how NFV & SDN vendors, network operators, and dev/test organizations can validate and test SDN & NFV in the cloud and leverage the unlimited...
View ArticleContinuous Integration with AWS, Jenkins and Ravello Systems
Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are being adopted using tools such as Jenkins. We recently published a detailed blog on continuous integration and deployment using Jenkins in a...
View ArticleRunning Android emulator up to 16x faster on AWS or Google Cloud: performance...
In our earlier blogs we have shown you how to setup an android emulator in a cloud VM using AWS or Google Cloud and why Ravello HVX can significantly boost the speed of an android emulator in a cloud...
View ArticleBuid your Openstack Environment in Less than 5 minutes
In this blog, I will cover the steps to deploy an Openstack Icehouse environment in less than 5 minutes for your lab environments. This procedure is applicable to Single-node and Multinode type of...
View ArticleRunning Openstack lab on AWS for rapid development
Ravello really saved my project. Being able to replicate a production OpenStack environment in the cloud for rapid application development is a game changer... Ravello Systems just changed the DevOps...
View ArticleRunning KVM hypervisors in AWS – Product Update
Until today, it was not possible to run hypervisors (such as KVM, ESXi etc.) in cloud environments, as cloud providers do not expose the instruction set needed for hypervisors to run (see here)....
View ArticleHow to create SharePoint test environments on AWS without migration
You have built your critical business applications like your Intranet, collaboration, business process and workflow management on top of Sharepoint. You have one or more pre-production/test...
View ArticleRed Hat accelerates OpenStack/KVM partner knowledge by using Ravello for...
Red Hat Global Partner Enablement Delivers Cutting-Edge Software Training Courses Red Hat is at the forefront of open source software development for enterprise IT, with a broad portfolio of products...
View ArticleBeginner’s Guide: Android Continuous Integration and Development using...
As a new member of the Ravello team and an avid tinker of everything Android, I have been investigating how to utilize the AWS or Google cloud to create a continuous integration environment for...
View ArticleHosting Your Virtual or Self-Paced Trainings and Hands-on-Labs in the Cloud:...
If your software training lab requires a custom multi-VM environment with networking elements, you already know that moving to a cloud based model will give you a lot more flexibility. We are seeing a...
View ArticleThe curious case of cloud-based development and testing for VMware...
Most enterprises have teams of developers and test engineers working on building new applications and adding features to existing applications that run in the enterprise data center or a dedicated...
View ArticleBuilding Continuous Integration for Testing and Validation on Openstack Using...
If you are a software ISV who has to port your products to run on Openstack, then you are probably living through the challenges of not having enough Openstack test environments for your development...
View ArticleStep by Step Guide to Setting Up OpenStack Juno Lab on AWS Using Ravello
In my previous blog, I talked about how one can bring up OpenStack Icehouse in less than 5 minutes. Here comes OpenStack Juno, the tenth release - and you can try it out immediately by having your own...
View ArticleRun Apache Cassandra Datastax sandbox VM on AWS for rapid prototyping
Apache Cassandra is a free, open source NoSQL database designed to manage very large data sets (think petabytes) across large clusters of commodity servers. Companies like Netflix, ebay are using...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of Cloud-Based Virtual Training – Increasing Utilization and...
Most major independent software vendors (ISVs) and other enterprises that develop and produce software, security appliances, networking appliances etc. provide their corporate customers trainings on...
View ArticleOpenStack Lab for Learning – Ravello LabCloud
As part of Ravello’s Learning Tracks, this guide provides resources with step by step instructions for learning OpenStack in your own time, but without requiring any hardware. We will achieve this by...
View ArticleSharePoint Lab for Learning – Ravello LabCloud
As part of Ravello’s Learning Tracks, this guide provides step by step instructions for learning SharePoint 2013 by using a cloud-based lab running on Ravello. If you don’t already have a Ravello...
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