Organizations
have often faced lot of hassles while developing and testing web
applications. It has been seen time and again that traditional
roadblocks like cost, lack of process, scalability and methodology
often hinder the successful deployment of an application. Often done
at a project level, these actions remain underutilized and
under-resourced. There is a huge demand for substantial
infrastructure and flexible management of resources to undertake a
large scale project.
There
are various variables that account for unpredictable operations,
gradual building of capacity and optimal utilization. Although it is
a crucial IT function and many administrators understand the
inability to provide the scale and flexibility for development and
testing teams, it often delays the application development life cycle
and hampers the delivery of an application.
In
order to overcome all these hurdles, a cloud based developmental
model can be undertaken to match the highly dynamic and resource
intensive needs of the application development and testing. The pace
of technology is moving at a rapid pace and developmental teams need
to be flexible and agile in order to incorporate new ideas and
functions in deploying an application.
Cloud-based
development offers immediate deployment of application without
upfront infrastructure cost which can be up-scaled or downsized as
per requirement. Mobile application development can be taken to a
whole new level while incorporating with cloud computing. It changes
the whole scenario and the way an application is developed, tested
and deployed.
One
of the biggest advantages of undertaking cloud-based resources is
that it enhances the competitive edge over the competition of
maintaining their own data center without any additional cost input.
It also provides testing teams with a self service model from a pool
of shared but secure infrastructure resources. By making configurable
templates, they can run them in parallel with the development team
and customize it as per a particular project.
It
is an hybrid solution which gives enhanced ID and access control to
safeguard data. By automating approval work-flows and encapsulating
infrastructure management it reduces the cost as well as time taken
to develop an application.
However
for any enterprise or business to undertake cloud computing
development, there are some consideration that ought to be kept in
mind. Control and Security, Overall performance, Real time monitoring
of development, Operational management should be foreseen in order to
ensure that there are no hindrances. In this competitive environment,
success only embraces those who are able to incorporate new
technology to have an edge over the others.
