As pundits debate about the pros and cons of cloud computing, pragmatists  (aka software developers) are busy experimenting and trying to find out what more can be harnessed from cloud use.  As heard through the Amazon Web-vine, the majority of cloud use cases right now are folks in software development and testing which is quite surprising given that Web 2.0 type applications seem to be lording it out  as the obvious crowd pleaser.

Upon closer inspection, however, it's all a matter of what the cloud can efficiently enable - saving resources.  The same arguments for which the cloud computing movement precisely hypes on but this time without the security threat.  Quite simply, if you can run software production, as well as run build and test cycles much faster then you can save on developer's time.  It's this type of productivity improvement that eventually gets products to market much faster.

There is one such tool that would help reduce costs via cloud-enabling the testing.  At it's core is the MaestroS+, an innovative open-source solution to automate the time and resource consuming tasks of building and testing software. 

So free up your enterprise resources and developers from inefficient, traditional approaches.  Enable more builds, more often using the cloud model. Give Maestro S+ a try now.  It's not just being ahead of the cloud adoption curve just a natural progression of what technology brings.

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