What is your typical practice for licensing in Dev and Test environments? Offline copies of Production licenses? Seperate licensing with low end/no support? Trial Licenses and things like MSDN ...

Operations doesn't want dev/test to affect production systems: Putting development and test into the production infrastructure, even if quarantined via VLANs, holds the potential of affecting ...

If you’re going to convince Oracle CEO Mark Hurd of anything, you better bring some supporting data. Here are a few data points that have convinced Hurd that 100% of enterprise development and testing ...

Even very sophisticated software companies with very smart people working in them have experienced breaches. When attackers get as far as software development systems, they could - theoretically - use ...

You are creating a database from scratch for an application This application will have multiple siloed environments (PROD, TST, INT, DEV) Data from PROD will nightly be moved to the other environments ...

Agile development and the cloud have brought a new set of expectations, and a new horizon of possibilities. The days of long waiting until servers are provisioned and configured have been replaced ...

These virtual times, they are a-changin’. The writing has been on the wall for VMware Lab Manager for quite some time, and now the official word has come down from VMware that it will discontinue ...