The evolution of IBM Jazz® offerings in the cloud
The greatest challenges in development and test environments are acquiring, configuring, and managing environments quickly and cost effectively for development, testing, piloting, and deployment of software applications.
You can use cloud computing to create and host these environments. Cloud computing helps eliminate administrative overload, reduce costs and time, and free development and test teams to make them more efficient.
IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing (SDS) provide an on-demand, easy to use software delivery model for the cloud with significant cost savings, flexibility, speed, agility, and improved governance. With application lifecyle management tools from IBM Rational®, SDS enables real-time provisioning of key preconfigured IBM software products.
In a matter of minutes, you can provision and manage images to support the development, test, and delivery of software applications. These services are optimized for deployment in a private cloud infrastructure hosted by the customer and are also available on the IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud.
SDS features a select set of services optimized and ready to deploy for enterprise software delivery:
IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing
- Agile Development Services to enable collaborative development and test
- An integrated set of services for Test Management, Test Planning, Test lab management
- Tools to help develop for the cloud
IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing include best practices and processes for successful adoption of private clouds, leveraging the best practices of IBM Global Technology Services, Global Business Services, and Rational Lab Services with a full suite of service capabilities to adopt a cloud delivery model and to identify greatest areas for return on investment in cloud adoption.
Rational helps you harness the agility and flexibility of the cloud, helping development and delivery teams more quickly develop, test, and deploy new technology-based business initiatives. Teams of all sizes, configurations, and budgets can leverage the advantages of a collaborative ALM platform.
Through first-class development architecture with options that you can use to scale up or scale down based on the needs of your business, you can lower capital and technology costs for maximum return on investment.
Whether you are planning to leverage the resources of IBM's Public Cloud or deploying your own private cloud, use IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing to lower your total cost of ownership, minimize risks, reduce resource requirements and management overhead costs, and free up your team to focus on driving revenue building initiatives.
