IBM acquires Green Hat

A message from Kristof Kloeckner:

I am pleased to announce that IBM has acquired Green Hat. Green Hat offers capabilities that use virtualization to create cost effective 24x7 test environments, enabling clients to test earlier and more frequently throughout the development lifecycle.

Innovation is increasingly being driven by software, but the rapidly changing software development landscape means that any changes an organization makes to its software environment need to happen smoothly and without disruption to the creation and delivery of products and services. IBM’s leading software development and delivery platform and solutions help organizations remove the complexities that can often stall software driven innovation.

Acquiring Green Hat builds upon IBM’s quality management strategy. With Green Hat’s quality assurance solutions, IBM will help clients gain greater business agility and quality within their software environments by:

• Driving down organizational costs associated with the hardware, software and labor required to create and maintain complex test environments;

• Reducing cycle time and accelerating delivery by removing time wasted setting up test environments and enabling more parallel development;

• Cutting risk by enabling iterative and agile development and reducing late stage integration issues by testing individual application and system components as they become available.

This acquisition extends IBM’s leadership in driving development agility and software quality by changing the way enterprises can manage software development cost, test cycle time and risk.

Together, we offer the most complete solution available today for agile software development and testing. Green Hat’s application virtualization capabilities will help our customers accelerate their delivery of business critical software with improved quality, and at a lower cost and risk to the business.

For more information about this news, please read the press release.