Testing Environment on Private Cloud

Every enterprise keeps a test environment to test its IT applications. IT team always tries to keep Test and Production environment similar if not identical for the obvious reasons. But to keep the cost under control Business team wants to keep testing environment to minimum. This is an ongoing challenge. Every side has its own argument.

IT team wants to minimize the risk by testing the application in environment similar to production while business team has an argument of low utilization of test environment.

Cloud computing provide very elegant solution of the challenge. If test environment is deployed on Private Cloud, conflicting arguments from both IT and Business teams can be handled in one go.