Virtual operating system technology products are very mature and provide fantastic development environments for software engineering. Products such as VMWare and Hyper-V can provide outstanding performance and value for money, when targeted to appropriate hardware for a given application and purpose. Virtualisation is rapidly, for economic reasons also becoming a key part of many IT infrastructures.

AGSS have experience of using virtual environments for testing and development of projects prior to the company's inception. While this gives rapid progress through co-existence of multiple test and development environments careful consideration is necessary when working out the best cost-licensing options. For the engineer, during the development lifecycle, virtualisation environments provide a convenient research, test and evaluation facility, especially useful during due diligence and alternative product investigation. All AGSS development is performed in virtual environments linked to a central source code management system.