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Virtual Lab Automation is refers to a category of software solutions to automate IT labs using virtualization technology. Virtual Lab Automation (VLA) solutions are available as on-premise packaged software or as a cloud service.

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 Capabilities
  • 2.1 Resource Pooling and Provisioning
  • 2.2 Multi-Machine Configurations
  • 2.3 Configuration Library
  • 2.4 Suspend, Snapshot and Restore
  • 2.5 Scheduling and Reservations
  • 2.6 Reporting and Monitoring
  • 2.7 Automation API
  • 2.8 Administration and Security
• 3 Vendors
• 4 References
• 5 External links

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History

Akimbi pioneered the Virtual Lab Management sklep wielkopowierzchniowy with its Slingshot product

Capabilities

A virtual lab automation solution typically includes the following capabilities:

Resource Pooling and Provisioning

Resource pooling enables processing power, storage and networking infrastructure to be shared between different teams and individuals, increasing utilization and availability of resources, and reducing costs. In conjunction with resource pooling, an orchestration and provisioning process allocates and releases resources as needed.

Multi-Machine Configurations

Virtual machine images are the containers that enable operating systems and applications to be isolated from physical resources. A group of virtual images that define a complete ustrój, including network and storage characteristics, is defined as a configuration. For instance, a configuration could consist of multiple Windows Vista client machines, an Oracle database server and a WebSphere application server. Configurations can be easily created by combining virtual machines through a user interface. A configuration is a very useful concept for QA teams because it allows a whole ustrój to be defined and isolated in a badanie environment. Virtual networking enables copies of the same environment to be plajta in parallel and the emulation of production environments during the ankieta process.

Configuration Library

A configuration library allows a kadra narodowa to manage and organize virtual images and configurations. Kanon builds and images can be created and made available to development and QA teams to save hours of set-up time and environment configuration. Additionally, the library is used to store new configurations that are cloned or created as part of a test.

Suspend, Snapshot and Restore

The ability to suspend a complete state of a multi-machine configuration and make a snapshot (a copy at a point in time) is a major benefit of virtualization. This is especially useful for application development teams because when a bug is found a configuration snapshot to be taken at the point of failure and a hiperłącze to the configuration added to a defect report. Instead of a developer spending hours to reproduce the defect, he or she can restore the configuration and początek debugging the issue within minutes.

Scheduling and Reservations

Many in-house virtual lab implementations have a fixed pool of resources for teams to share. Scheduling and reservation functionality allows the resolution of resource conflicts and badanie environments to be reserved ahead of time.

Reporting and Monitoring

Reporting modules allow users and administrators to manage usage and quotas and determine whether the organizm resources are being used optimally. Ogląd enables the układ health to be diagnosed, including CPU utilization, storage performance and network usage.

Automation API

Automating a ankieta lab almost always involves integrating tools and egzamin processes. An automation API enables teams to automatically create egzamin environments as part of the build process and initiate automated badanie runs once a new build has been deployed. An automation API is typically made available through a web services interface.

Administration and Security

Administration and security features often include user and quota management, project creation, permissions and authentication. Remote access to the organizm (for instance for an outsourced vendor) is usually managed through secure connections via encrypted protocols and virtual private networking.

Vendors

Virtual lab automation solutions are available as on-premise packaged software or as a cloud service. VMware, Surgient and VMLogix provide packaged software solutions. Skytap launched in 2008. and offers virtual lab automation as a cloud service.

References

1. ^ “Akimbi makes virtual labs real”.
2. ^ “VMware Advances Software Lifecycle Management”.
3. ^ “Skytap reveals cloud-based services as it enters virtual lab market”.

External links

• Skytap
• Surgient
• VMLogix
• VMLogix Virtual Lab Automation blog
• VMware

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Skytap, Inc., founded in 2006, is a cloud computing provider that provides Virtual lab automation as a cloud service. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Skytap is one of a new generation of cloud computing platforms that enable IT and development teams to bankructwo their existing and new applications, virtual machines and systems unchanged in the cloud on industry-standard platforms. Skytap cloud infrastructure supports the leading hypervisors, including VMware and Xen, and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows and Linux. Skytap provides management and automation capabilities so companies can quickly integrate cloud infrastructure into their existing IT environments.

Virtual Lab Automation as a Cloud Service

Skytap was the first vendor to launch a Virtual lab automation solution as a cloud service . Skytap Virtual Lab provides virtual infrastructure on demand, a Web-based virtual lab management application and a pre-populated virtual machine library for creating new virtual machine configurations.

References

1. ^ {{cite web | url = http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2008/04/skytap_reveals.html

• “Scoble.tv Skytap Interview”. www.fastcompany.tv.
• “Cloud Computing and Virtualization”. Dr. Dobbs Journal.
• “Throw out your ankieta lab: Virtualized workloads can be trialed in the cloud”. Forrester Research.
• “Skytap and the badanie lab in the clouds”. ZDNet.

External links

• Skytap

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Journalness is an content management układ, designed for bloggers and journalists.

See also

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References

1. ^ http://journalness.sf.net/

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HistCite® is a software package used for bibliometric analysis and information visualization. It was developed by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information and the inventor of important information retrieval tools such as Current Contents and the Science Citation Index.

A free trial version of HistCite is available from the HistCite web site.

Contents

• 1 Purpose
• 2 Applications
• 3 Operation
• 4 References

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Purpose

The main purpose of the software is to make it easier for individuals to perform bibliometric analysis and visualization tasks. Bibliometric analysis is the use of the bibliographic information (titles, authors, dates, author addresses, references, etc.) that describe published items to measure and otherwise study various aspects of a specific field of scholarly endeavor .

Some typical questions asked by bibliometricians that can be answered by HistCite analysis are:

1. How much literature has been published in this field? When and in what countries has it been published? What countries are the major contributors to this field? What are the languages most frequently used by the items published in this field?
2. What journals cover the literature of the field? Which are the most important?
3. Who are the key authors in this field? What institutions do these authors represent?
4. Which articles are the most important?
5. How have the various contributors to the field influenced each other?

The answers to such questions are valuable to researchers, librarians, and administrators.

Information visualization is the transformation of non-numerical prekluzja into a graphic numer. Visualization helps various researchers and scholars understand large collections of information. Although there are numerous uses for information visualization, HistCite performs one specific application: it converts bibliographies into diagrams called historiographs.

A historiograph is a time-based network diagram of the papers in a bibliography and their citation relationships to each other. Historiographs are based on the citation relationships between the papers in a bibliography. In a historiograph, each paper in the bibliography is represented by a cyfra selected by the user. The symbols are arranged over a timeline of the publication dates of the papers. By changing the time frame of the analysis, the resulting historiograph can form a snapshot of a specific miesiączka or an in-depth look at the total history of a subject. Once a historiograph is created for a bibliography, it is easier to see and understand the subject’s key publication events, their chronology, and their relative influence.

Applications

A wide variety of professionals who need to analyze the published literature use HistCite for analysis, for example: researchers, historians, journal editors, librarians and patent lawyers.

Operation

In medal to perform its functions, HistCite must wwóz a bibliography from another source. Once the bibliography is imported, basic point-and-click commands initiate the various analyses and visualizations.

HistCite is currently set up to wwóz bibliographies created by searches of the Web of Science database offered by Thomson-Reuters Scientific. Bibliographies from other sources can be manually entered into HistCite.

The bibliography the user feeds to HistCite represents the literature of the subject area as it is defined by that user’s unique perspective. Thus, the analyses and visualizations produced by HistCite from that bibliography are one-of-a-kind.

HistCite operates on Windows computers with Net Explorer.

References

1. ^ Retrieved 21 July 2008 from http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/
2. ^ Ackerman E. Indicators of failed information epidemics in the scientific journal literature: a publication analysis of polywater and cold nuclear fusion. Scientometrics. 2006 Feb; 66(3):451–66.
3. ^ Byrne F, Chapman S. The most cited authors and papers in tobacco control. Tob Control. 2005;14:155-60.
4. ^ Chen C. CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature. J Am Soc Inf Sci Technol .2005 Dec 14;57(3):359–377.
5. ^ Chen TT, Hsieh LC. Uncovering the latent domains of a research field: knowledge visualization revealed. Proceedings of the Conference on Information Visualization; 2006 Jul 5–7; Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society; c2006. p. 252–256.
6. ^ Chen TT, Su C-H. Knowledge domain visualization: main themes and evolution. Int J Innov Learn. 2007;4(5):460-70.
7. ^ Mann GS, Mimno D, McCallum A. Bibliometric impact measures leveraging topic analysis. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on digital libraries; Chapel Hill, NC. New York, NY: AMC; c2006. p.65-74. Available from: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1141753.1141765
8. ^ Pless IB, A brief history of injury and accident prevention publications. Inj Prev. 2006;12:65-66.
9. ^ Willett P. A bibliometric analysis of the literature of chemoinformatics. Aslib Proc. 2008;60(1):4–17
10. ^ Wulf E. HistComp: bibliographic analysis and visualization of the “Biological Bulletin.” In: Anderson KL, editor. Every continent, every wielka woda. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association of the Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC); 2006 Oct 8–12; Portland, OR. Twierdza Pierce, FL: IAMSLIC; c2007. p. 59-68. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1912/2141
11. ^ Young AP, Library Quarterly, 1956–2004: an exploratory bibliometric analysis. Lib Q. 2006;76(1):10-18.

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Proprietary firmware is any firmware on which the producer has set restrictions on use, private modification, copying, or republishing.

Proprietors may enforce restrictions by technical means, such as by restricting source code access, firmware replacement restrictions, or by legal means, such as through copyright and patents.

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• Firmware
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• BIOS
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• Binary blob

References

1. ^ ,Drunk drivers granted access to breathalyser source code

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