TCS CDMI Conformance Assurance Solution
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Organizations as well as individual consumers are increasingly adopting cloud solutions, even as cloud
storage companies are expanding their product portfolio of backup and recovery, storage and archival
solutions to address this growing demand. However, the lack of interoperability across products leads to
vendor lock-in, and entails significant costs and operational inefficiencies in managing multiple cloud
storage providers. To drive product standardization, companies are therefore developing products that
comply with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)
specification. This objective underlines the need for comprehensive testing solutions that detect defects
early on, ensure CDMI compliance, and facilitate SNIA certification of products.
TCS’ CDMI Conformance Assurance solution tests cloud storage products for conformance to SNIA CDMI
standards and reports issues to be fixed. With SNIA appointing TCS as an authorized certified services and
test provider for offering support throughout the testing process, our solution empowers companies to
deliver superior quality, CDMI conformant products, faster to the market.
Overview
Benefits
With the growing demand for cloud storage solutions comes the
need for standardization across products from different cloud
storage providers. SNIA’s CDMI specification addresses this need,
but demonstrating conformance with this specification is a key
challenge for cloud storage companies. Also affecting time to
market is the late identification of issues and defects in the product
development lifecycle (PDLC). To establish product credibility and
quality requires rigorous testing by skilled staff, which in turn
escalates product development costs and delays launches. Building
these capabilities in-house adds to the organization’s operational
overheads and directs focus away from core product development
initiatives.
TCS’ CDMI Conformance Assurance solution offers you the following
benefits:
TCS’ CDMI Conformance Assurance solution enables efficient
product testing and provides reports detailing the results for
conformance to the CDMI specification. The solution follows TCS’
mature four step framework comprising Strategize, Plan,
Automate and Test. Our testing solution for cloud storage vendors
encompasses test plan creation, test case design, test case
automation and test execution and reporting. With reports
identifying the precise defects, you address issues early in the PDLC,
realizing more mature and stable products. The efficient defect
correction reduces the overall cost of defect fixing, improves
product quality, ensures compliance with CDMI specifications
and enables faster Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies.
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Ensured CDMI compliance: Leverage our pre-conformance
testing service to eliminate internal investments for developing
the CDMI conformance test suite. Reduce test cycle-time by up to
70-80% while adhering to CDMI conformance specifications
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Increased market share: Deliver an interoperable solution based
on industry standardization specifications. Certify your products
for greater credibility, and capture larger market share
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Reduced cost of testing: Reduce testing costs through our fixed
price engagement model that utilizes TCS’ mature solution, rather
than undertaking the task of building these capabilities in-house.
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Quicker time-to-market: Accelerate product launch with our
automated testing process based on a mature test framework
that offers optimal test coverage. Reduce test cycle time and fix
defects early on to achieve improved product quality and faster
time to market.
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An overview of TCS CDMI Conformance Assurance Solution
The TCS Advantage
TCS’ CDMI Conformance Assurance solution offers complete testing
support and equips you to verify your product’s conformance with
CDMI specification. Backed by TCS’ dedicated testing infrastructure,
the solution’s testing roadmap accounts for your business’ specific
requirements. Easy to deploy, the offering can be configured
immediately, and provides reports that identify product quality
concerns early on. We add value to your experience through:
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Accreditation from SNIA: The only solution of its kind to offer
conformance testing for CDMI specifications, it simplifies the
process of certification. Our agreement with SNIA to offer CDMI
testing ensures conformance to the defined testing process and
accelerates the certification process.
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Comprehensive test reports: Our exhaustive test reports detail
the product testing outcome, with clear identification of noncompliant instances, defects and issues. Server details, test case
summaries and object summaries pinpoint the exact cause
of issues, and enable defect correction early in the PDLC.
Contact
To know more about TCS CDMI Conformance Assurance Solution send
us an email to Storage.coe@tcs.com
About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)
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solutions organization that delivers real results to global business,
ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a
consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled
infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered
through its unique Global Network Delivery ModelTM, recognized as
the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the
Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has a global
footprint and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay
Stock Exchange in India.
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consultants enrich each engagement with technological
advancements, industry best practices, process improvements,
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