Test SandBox
The Test SandBox has long been the domain of many of your more technical folks. These are the systems and parts of you infrastructure where new ideas are tried and prototypes are hammered out.
The Sandbox is one of the first things companies move to the Cloud. There is a counter intuitive reason why. Developers in this stage often have to compete with production systems for hardware and related resources. Often, they simply can’t get them or have to wait for as much as months or years to proceed. They know that in the fast moving world of technology, that cannot work.
Many of your most technical people are likely utilizing Cloud resources from unexpected vendors like Amazon already. Why? Because the can get the resources they need, for just as long as they need them for a substantial savings over their own IT departments costs. If you are not using this strategy today for your testing, you are likely missing out on a great opportunity.
