http://www.bladewatch.com/2008/02/06/who-deploys-the-application-production-support-or-development/ Tracking Blades, virtualization and grid Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:52:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.bladewatch.com/2008/02/06/who-deploys-the-application-production-support-or-development/comment-page-1/#comment-42987 IT’s About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog » Hitting a Wall: Testing Environments for Application Development and IT Operations Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:09:32 +0000 http://www.bladewatch.com/2008/02/06/who-deploys-the-application-production-support-or-development/#comment-42987 [...] This wall occurs because of the difference in point of view between development/QA and operations. But in a business environment where the expectation for uptime levels for all applications are nearing 100%, IT Operations teams are beginning to place more emphasis on improving their own testing capabilities – to better understand the impact of changes to the production environment prior to release. Slowly, IT Operations is beginning to break down the wall between application development teams and IT operations groups. [...] [...] This wall occurs because of the difference in point of view between development/QA and operations. But in a business environment where the expectation for uptime levels for all applications are nearing 100%, IT Operations teams are beginning to place more emphasis on improving their own testing capabilities – to better understand the impact of changes to the production environment prior to release. Slowly, IT Operations is beginning to break down the wall between application development teams and IT operations groups. [...]

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