At Skytap we have learned that companies increasingly need a place for dynamic workloads, such as migration and software evaluations, security testing, pre-production test beds, training sessions and IT labs. And yet, these IT sandbox environments typically aren’t compatible with the capital intensive in-house data center resources we’re accustomed to utilizing. Unlike well-planned data center workloads, sandbox workloads are characterized by fluctuating capacity needs and other rapid changes, and they often require intensive tactical IT support –none of which is well-suited to the traditional data center model.
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Essentially, it boils down to “what we need” vs. “what we have,” a debate that’s now commonplace in IT shops around the globe. How can organizations take advantage of all the benefits IT sandbox environments offer if these dynamic workloads don’t fit conventional IT ecosystems?
We believe we have found an answer to the conundrum. The solution, as we see it, is in the cloud.
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