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Powered by CollabNet CUBiT and the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System, Joint Solution Delivers Cost-Effective Code, Build and Test Provisioning for Distributed Software Development: CollabNet, the primary sponsor of the Subversion open source project and leading provider of collaborative software development solutions, and Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of the world’s first Virtualized Development Platform (VDP) for distributed software development. Powered by CollabNet CUBiT, the ground-breaking virtualization solution for managing and provisioning distributed development, build and test environments, the VDP uses the Sun Blade 6000 modular system to help development organizations centralize their development operations infrastructure, increase build and test quality, and reduce the cost of their infrastructure by up to 50%. This combined solution is available for on-site deployment at a client’s location, or on-demand offered within CollabNet’s world-class SaaS offerings. Today’s development organizations are impacted by conventional code, build and test environments that were not developed for the industry’s increasingly distributed development organizations. As a result, these tools provide limited visibility and operational flexibility to manage geographically dispersed and redundant compute infrastructure, administrative personnel, and the code, build and test processes. In addition, the constant need to reduce the expenses in developer operations is creating new urgency in enterprise development organizations to further optimize their code, build and test environments. The VDP creates a self-service software development environment securely integrated with centralized management, provisioning and optimization capabilities to dynamically reserve system resources on the Sun Blade 6000. These system resources are provisioned on physical blades or can be optionally virtualized while supporting the Solaris operating system (OS), Linux and Windows environments running on SPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors. The VDP empowers test and build engineers with self-service access to a pool of servers that can be quickly configured from a user definable and version-controlled Profile Library. Development teams, regardless of location, can leverage this library to create reusable and traceable machine configurations and deploy them globally through an intuitive user interface. Through CollabNet CUBiT, the VDP provides both hard cost savings by optimizing the usage of capital-intensive hardware assets, and soft ROI by automating the labor-intensive provisioning process of code, build and test servers so that developers can focus on building software rather than managing infrastructure. “We are excited to collaborate with Sun to deliver the first ever Virtualized Development Platform to enterprises around the world,” said Nick Bonfiglio, vice president of Worldwide Operations at CollabNet. “We aren’t just virtualizing test labs. By combining CUBiT with the Sun Blade 6000, we have created a first-of-its-kind solution to manage and govern developer operations infrastructure. CUBiT’s tight integration of the software application lifecycle, development tools, operational management software, and physical server infrastructure will speed up the development process, reduce capital spending and get better products to market faster.” “With this ground-breaking Virtualized Development Platform, Sun and CollabNet are providing customers with an end-to-end development solution that delivers an unprecedented level of efficiency to the distributed enterprise,” said Mike McNerney, Director Blade Server Product Line, Sun Microsystems. “Productivity and efficiencies across the development lifecycle are critical for companies to sustain their competitive advantage and we are proud to partner with the industry leader, CollabNet, to bring this solution to market.” The Virtualized Development Platform is the first virtualized infrastructure management system that tightly integrates the development lifecycle environment with build and test tools and provisions them dynamically to physical or virtual server blades. Other benefits include: * Increased productivity and standardization of development, build, and test best practices codified as a profile in the Component Library. * Faster implementation for new projects without increasing the site administrative workload. * Out-of-the-box interoperability across the development infrastructure to retain the value of existing investments in tools, training, and methodologies. * Simplified approach to application lifecycle management (ALM) that makes the platform configurable for any project. * Improved governance through secure roles-based access, audit-ability, and historical archiving of all server provisioning and access. Included in the Virtualized Development Platform is a free 15-user version of CollabNet Enterprise Edition, CollabNet’s web based collaborative software development tool suite for distributed teams, and Subversion, the fastest growing software configuration management system in the market today. CollabNet CUBiT can be purchased separately by calling (888) 778-9793 or visit its Web site.