Used by 80 percent of the Global 100 companies' IT organizations, VMware virtual infrastructure software simplifies test con-figuration management and eliminates the need for a physical machine for each configuration to be tested. Virtualization technology can dramatically reduce software development and testing cycles by shortening the time needed to provision, install, build, test and restore a new machine from days to minutes. Development teams can leverage the portability of VMware ESX Server™, VMware GSX Server™ and VMware Workstation virtual machines to easily share development environments and pre-packaged operating system (OS)/application testing configurations without risk.

This white paper explains how VMware software improves testing productivity and eliminates hardware bottlenecks for testing and deployment.