CloudSigma aides Workspace testing availability

In order to ensure that its applications development and testing capabilities do not impede its ability to service the changing needs of its marketplace, enterprise collaboration specialist, Workshare, has signed up with CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, to host its application testing and development environment.

By leveraging CloudSigma’s high-availability, scalable and energy-efficient public cloud environment Workshare can benchmark the customer experience for new services or features before they’re officially rolled out to customers, in the most sustainable way possible.

Workshare’s secure enterprise file sharing and collaboration applications allow individuals to create, share, and manage high-value content anywhere, on any device. It also allows content owners to accurately track and compare changes from contributors simultaneously.

“The bottom line is that Workshare’s infrastructure and services have to be available 24x7 and regular testing and development is what guarantees this”

To ensure innovation is a core part of Workshare’s product development, the company needed a cloud provider with a scalable, elastic environment. With this, new applications and functionality can be quickly developed and brought to market, ensuring Workshare is constantly meeting customers’ changing business collaboration needs.

Additionally, with the ability to reserve fixed capacity and burst as needed, CloudSigma allows Workshare to test the performance of its applications in the most scalable, cost effective way possible without risking costly Virtual Machine overprovisioning from pre-defined bundles, as required by some other providers.

“CloudSigma is highly elastic, allowing us to easily scale up and down as needed so we can provision the exact capacity required of our testing environment,” said Ali Moinuddin, CMO, Workshare. “CloudSigma enables us to process data quickly, while saving money on resources we aren’t using.”

Workshare is leveraging CloudSigma’s state-of-the-art infrastructure for testing and development, combined with its resource provisioning on a pay-as-you-go basis. As a result of these continued cost savings, Workshare has migrated some of its own internal IT systems into CloudSigma’s environment, reaping the benefits of its price/performance and resource utilisation.

“The bottom line is that Workshare’s infrastructure and services have to be available 24x7 and regular testing and development is what guarantees this,” said Robert Jenkins, CEO, CloudSigma. “We are able to provide an unmatched level of service, along with a neutral platform that is very open, allowing Workshare to test their software stack unmodified within our cloud. As a result, Workshare can continue to deliver its enterprise customers with secure collaboration options that meet their stringent business regulations.”

CloudSigma’s Swiss datacentre location with Equinix relies on clean power, as more than 90 percent of the Swiss electricity grid’s generation capacity depends upon renewable energy. Equinix’s efficient delivery of power from the grid to the rack minimises loss and overhead, and meets CloudSigma’s track record of using datacentre facilities that show consistent performance improvements in Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE).