OMEN Game Stream allows gamers to play top AAA games anytime and anywhere by leveraging the power and performance of their OMEN PC on any Windows 10 device with a high-speed internet connection.

Specific details include:

• Connected cloud gaming experience: Offered within the OMEN Command Center, gamers can now take their OMEN gaming experience with them on-the-go with their OMEN gaming PC doing all the heavy lifting by acting as a cloud gaming server
• Push gaming boundaries: Using any Windows 10 device, gamers can connect to their OMEN PC and play games that are well beyond the hardware specifications of the connecting device for an incredible cloud gaming experience

According to CNet, the serving system should be physically connected to the network, and the connection between it and the client system is stable, with a bandwidth of at least 25 megabits per second, making a performance of 1080p/60fps.

Written by Leah Alger

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New research from analyst firm Research and Markets shows that DevOps is shifting from being an emerging trend in the IT market to one that is gaining popularity at a rapid pace.

Why is DevOps platform market seeing such growth?

Thanks to providing a holistic IT environment for the automation of software development processes, DevOps tools are becoming much more popular within the IT industry, in turn increasing the need for a standardised platform.

The need for a standardised platform

According to the report, software development processes are now requiring standardised platforms in order to bridge the gap between software developers and operational teams.

Commenting on the report, an analyst from the research team said: “PaaS is built where the entire IT environment is designed to support test and development processes. Instances of PaaS on public cloud include IBM Bluemix, CloudFoundry from Pivotal, and the Google App Engine whereas for PaaS on private cloud include hosted CloudFoundry. Cloud platform vendors usually offer automation and management tools to consolidate and integrate applications directly into their cloud platforms. As a result, IT organisations get better automation features in the same turnkey cloud platform. This has made PaaS essential for those organisations who approached DevOps and want to automate, test, and develop services.”

Key DevOps players

The report recognises firms such as CA Technologies, IBM Corp., Puppet Inc., Rackspace Inc., and Red Hat Inc., as key players in the global DevOps platform market.
Other prominent vendors in the market are: CFEngine, Chef, Cisco, Clarive, CollabNet, DBmaestro, Dell, Docker, HP, Inedo, Infosys, Microsoft, SaltStack, VersionOne, and VMware.

Edited from press release by Jordan Platt

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Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC)’s ‘Digital Testing in Europe – Strategies, Challenges & Measuring Success,’ research looks at how organisations are ensuring that the testing and quality assurance (QA) function is able to support the digital agenda of the business.

This is often led by departments such as sales and marketing, who circumvent the CIO and undertake their own development projects, while using emerging tools and platforms.

Developing and implementing digital testing strategies

The study, supported by Accenture, HP, TestPlant, Applause and Worksoft, found that 26% of organisations in the region have formulated a digital testing strategy but have not yet implemented it. A further 35% plan to develop a digital testing strategy in the next year.

The study found that the biggest obstacle in implementing digital testing strategies is in taking a consistent approach to testing across multiple channels of engagement, an issue cited by almost half of all participants. The second biggest issue is that of integrating digital into legacy systems, which was regarded as a ‘primary’ challenge by 39% of participants.

Other key findings

More than 60% of businesses use the same team to test both digital projects and existing applications.

Nearly 23% of companies currently allocate more than 60% of their testing budgets to new development in 2015, but this will increase to a level of 27% in 2017. The majority of companies use an array of tools (in-house, packaged, open source) and approaches (virtualisation, in-production testing) as part of their digital testing strategies.

Major Challenges for Digital Testing

There is growing interest in crowd sourced testing models. 25% of European businesses already use them, with an additional 20% planning to use them in the next two years.

European organisations need to rethink their approach to testing

Nick Mayes, Principal Analyst at PAC, said: “The digital agenda is having a profound impact on the testing strategies of many European organisations. It is moving testing closer to the business, driving them to leverage different tools, methodologies and external partners, and it is forcing businesses to change at greater speed.”

The European Picture

“The proliferation of digital technologies in today’s high-velocity, software-driven business world is pushing every company to rethink and reinvent its approach to testing,” said Matthias Rasking, Europe, Africa and Latin America Testing Lead for Accenture. “We collaborated with PAC on this study to highlight the need for companies to develop a comprehensive digital testing strategy in support of their business strategy. The ability to roll out business capabilities continuously, create a seamless customer experience and protect the brand will be the difference between companies that can evolve and ones that stagnate.”

Methodology

PAC interviewed senior IT and testing executives at 200 large businesses in Europe, as part of the study.

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In an attempt to gain control over the influx of new applications, the report found a 9% y-o-y increase in IT spending budgets directed towards testing and quality assurance. Of this budget, almost half (49%) is dedicated to maintenance work, focused on trying to ensure applications are suitable for business use. Relatedly, budget spent on new transformational work has decreased by 1% as companies begin to reign in their spending to focus on coping with the continuous transformation of applications.

A seamless customer experience is a key driver for QA testing

This year’s World Quality Report found that companies are continuing to invest in securing the integrity of their systems, with more than four out of five (81%) citing security as the main purpose for testing. This heightened awareness of security is driven by digital transformation and security testing has become critical to business assurance for many organisations. However, the role of the customer experience is now almost as important to companies with 79% identifying this as a key consideration for their quality assurance testing. This marks a notable shift for organisations who have come to realise the growing importance of providing customers with a smooth, seamless experience whenever they come into contact with the company’s properties.

Acknowledging the renewed intent on IT investment, Govind Muthukrishnan, Senior Vice President and Testing Global Service Line Leader observes: “This year’s World Quality Report shows that we live in a fast moving world where customer experience and flexibility are as important as keeping pace with digital transformation using agile QA and DevOps. Today, we see that organisations are making significant investments in test environments and test data – test ecosystems – and are focussing on end to end automation of not only testing but also the test ecosystems. however, organisations must move beyond automation of testing and test ecosystems to an integrated and intelligent QA lifecycle that can deliver synergy in business assurance.”

Shorter lifecycles demand greater agility

This year’s report also revealed that with spend on quality testing and assurance increasing, a higher proportion of that budget is now dedicated to DevOps and agile principles, with more than half (59%) of respondents saying at least half of projects within the organisation use DevOps principles and 47% use virtual test environments. While organisations attempt to modernise their testing practices and procedures, they also have to deal with the increasingly shorter life cycles of programs and applications, which is forcing an increase in demand for testing hardware and infrastructure: an increase of 5% from 2014 to 38%. However, despite the decrease in spending on new transformational work (down 1%), almost one in three (29%) are intent on developing Testing Centers of Excellence (TCoE) within the next two years.

New roles being created to meet testing demand

The maturity of the quality assurance market has seen the function become a critical business operation. With an increasing number of organisations now adopting DevOps and agile, there are a number of new roles being created to match the growing importance and size of the market. Roles that never previously existed, such as software development test engineers, are now appearing and the demand for these positions is only likely to increase as quality assurance becomes more central to the operation of organisations.

“Technology disruptions such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and mobility are leading to faster business transformations than ever before. Companies have to pivot quickly in order to stay ahead of the curve, compete and conform to the new style of business,” said Raffi Margaliot, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Application Delivery Management, HP Software. “This year’s World Quality Report highlights how quickly IT leaders are responding to these mega trends that are rapidly changing our industry and the steps they are taking to keep pace with the demands of their users without compromising application quality and user experience.”

Research methodology

The World Quality Report, which this year interviewed 1560 respondents from 32 countries, is the only global report for application quality. It has been produced annually since 2009. Now in its 7^th edition, the 2015 report adopted a hybrid methodology of data collection using both computer aided telephone interviews and computer aided web interviews. Based on analysis of five respondent groups: CIO, VP Application, IT Director, QA/Testing Manager and CDO/CMO, the report surveyed respondents from across the globe through quantitative interviews followed by qualitative deep-dive discussions.

A full copy of the World Quality Report 2015 can be downloaded here.

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