As we discussed in my previous blog post, the whole agile development process depends on testing – it has to be good, obviously, and it also has to be fast – we don’t have the luxury of taking months to test our flagship product. Nope, we get two weeks and two weeks only. Read the rest of this entry »
People have a difficult time grasping the concept of the cloud. As many ways as I’ve tried to explain where I work to friends and family, I am often asked, “Can you please explain what ‘the cloud’ even is?” Read the rest of this entry »
Last week both Dan and I spoke at the AIIM 2012 Conference. Dan told the audience that paper is silly, and I spoke about how the Cloud is dead.
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Agile, agile, agile. As a software as a service company, our customers expect us to be agile. Agile in responding to customer support. Agile in responding to feature requests. Agile in adding functionality to the base product.
You won’t have to try too hard to imagine this scenario: you installed an application for a specific department to solve a certain task — let’s call it marketing automation and team sites in SharePoint. A few months later you come back to find that it has spiraled into dozens of other departments and the system is growing like an insatiable IT monster, set to consume all of your time and resources. And now the fun part: your executive team wants to know how people are using it and why your million dollar projects look and feel a lot like unmanaged shared drives. What do you do?
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Good thing I love my CloudShare team, as I have to drive an hour and 15 minutes every day to reach them. To make this drive tolerable, I use radio. When I started I was listening to a syndicated radio station that kept me laughing the whole way into San Mateo. But recently the station was cancelled. Trembling in road rage fear, I quickly switched to a NPR station via Bay Areas KQED. What does that have to do with this post? I will tell you.
There are several instances you may need to access your CloudShare server from an external browser, without having to remotely log into your machine using RDP or Console access. This is especially useful if you’re showing customers a demo of your Web-based application or the QA team needs to test the Web interface. Well, we’ve had a feature called Web Access, which provides any-time Web access to your machines via a persistent Web address (URL).
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Are you testing or developing a web application? Do you want to share the web application with others, like you would with any web application? We have an awesome new feature in CloudShare ProPlus to do just that. The Web Access feature is an efficient way to test, share, and work on your web application as you would any web application, via a URL. For every environment, you create in CloudShare, we allow you to enable the “Web Access” feature. When you enable this feature, you get a static URL that will not change while the environment exists or the feature enabled. Read the rest of this entry »