Zettaset Selects Skytap Cloud
Zettaset today announced that the company has selected Skytap to deploy large Hadoop environments in Skytap Cloud for accelerated product development and testing. Specifically, Skytap empowers Zettaset with on-demand Hadoop cluster infrastructure, enabling the elastic scalability required to develop and test its Orchestrator software solutions across large, multi-node Hadoop clusters.
Before Skytap, Zettaset originally deployed its own on-premises VMware infrastructure. However, with rapid company growth it became clear that continuing to build out more capacity was not sustainable or cost-effective. As a result, Zettaset turned to Skytap Cloud to provide scalable, on-demand infrastructure for collaborative development and test environments, and to support a geographically dispersed sales team with product demonstration infrastructure. Zettaset also utilized Skytap Cloud support templates, which did not require engineering support to integrate existing VMware assets and workflows into Skytap Cloud.
Zettaset has achieved numerous benefits since moving development, test workloads, and demo environments to Skytap Cloud, including:
- Utilized the Skytap Cloud API to automate testing processes, eliminated 90 percent of the manual steps previously required, and accelerated the software test cycle by 200 percent
- Scalability of Skytap Cloud allowed Zettaset to quickly expand test environments from three- or four-node clusters, to 50-node clusters and higher
- Network Address Translation enabled Zettaset to easily create multiple parallel development and testing environments without dealing with the networking issues that commonly occur in shared networks across hybrid cloud architectures
