Published : Mar 16, 2012
NOT ON THE CURRENT EDITION
This blip is not on the current edition of the Radar. If it was on one of the last few editions, it is likely that it is still relevant. If the blip is older, it might no longer be relevant and our assessment might be different today. Unfortunately, we simply don't have the bandwidth to continuously review blips from previous editions of the Radar.
Understand more
Mar 2012
Hold
Many teams encounter problems that are caused by their test environment missing an expensive hardware component that is only present in production. While a pre-production environment in many cases cannot approach the scale of a production environment, all of its components should be present. We recommend not buying solutions you can only afford one of, such as SAN, firewalls or load balancers, as this prevents realistic testing anywhere but in production.
