Quoting from IT Jungle:

Akimbi Systems, a developer of software that takes advantage of virtualization to help quality assurance (QA) teams manage hundreds or thousands of test cases, unveiled a new reseller channel program this week that will give its software much more visibility. By partnering with some of the biggest resellers of virtualization software, Akimbi's product, called Slingshot, will be included in the deal when people buy VMWare or Microsoft virtualization software from those resellers.

Slingshot is a Windows Server 2003-based product that uses virtualization software to reduce the time and complexity involved in setting up QA tests for applications that run on Windows, Unix, Linux, NetWare, FreeBSD, and MS-DOS platforms. Instead of keeping a room full of physical servers configured with the entire spectrum of old and new operating systems, databases, middleware, and other programs--or requiring testers to manually provision these setups each time they're needed--Slingshot enables users to store the various configurations and possible permutations in virtual iron, using either VMWare or Microsoft's Virtual Server (the open-source Xen virtualization software is not supported--yet.) Testers can then pull up the required configuration as needed from a Web interface, resulting in faster and more accurate QA testing, and quicker time-to-market with the final product.

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