VMware Studio, the industry's leading virtual appliance authoring tool, is an integrated development system that packages software applications into virtual appliances and vApps that are ready to run and optimized for VMware product platforms and the cloud. vApps are software solutions optimized for the cloud, consisting of multiple virtual machines, packaged and maintained as a single entity in industry standard Open Virtualization Format (OVF).
Reduce Development Costs by Building Virtual Applications
VMware Studio 2.0 helps ISVs, developers and IT professionals to author, configure, deploy and customize virtual appliances and vApps. It is a free product and is available as a virtual appliance.
Support distributed, global teams: At each stage of the application lifecycle. ISVs and developers can code, build, and test applications with CollabNet TeamForge, deliver them as virtual appliances
Maintain quality in a virtual world: Periodically publish critical updates directly to deployed virtual appliances. Build update repositories in your virtual appliance that are made externally visible to end customers
Deliver your applications as cloud ready virtual appliances: Distribute through the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.
Why VMware Studio and CollabNet?
The on-ramp to public and private cloud production
This unified development environment, which provides the developer the ability to incorporate VMware Studio in CollabNet TeamForge, is among the first to support distributed teams of application developers.
VMware and CollabNet jointly provide an end-to-end development environment that allows developers to not only code, build, and test software applications but also
package them as cloud-ready virtual appliances. The complete environment makes it easier and faster for developers to create virtual appliances and deploy them in public or private clouds. With applications packaged as virtual appliances, the combined solution becomes an on ramp to production environments and public and private cloud deployment. It solves that application creation-to-production handoff dilemma.
Released this summer, VMware Studio 2.0 also provides the unique capability of not requiring developers to start building a virtual machine from scratch each time. An existing virtual machine built with VMware Studio 2.0 can serve as input for the next build, saving time when only the contents (or application mix) of a virtual machine are changing.
