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When I was a pre-sales engineer at Mercury (before the HP acquisition), we had coined an acronym called BTO, or Business Technology Optimization. BTO essentially defined a new category of products and services that helped align IT and IT Operations with the needs of the business. Mercury got acquired by HP soon after, which caused …
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Today’s IT managers are facing a classic conundrum. On the one hand, we all recognize that IT sandbox environments are an emerging necessity. Companies increasingly need a place for dynamic workloads, such as migration and software evaluations, security testing, pre-production test beds, training sessions and IT labs. And yet, these IT sandbox environments typically aren’t …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/07/here%e2%80%99s-why-you-need-to-transition-your-it-sandbox-environments-to-the-cloud/
The Cloud Strategist is a relatively new role with many companies that I have seen act as a pivotal piece in contemporary IT departments. This position will continue to play significant roles in mid to large IT Organizations in the years to come as more companies adopt the cloud for various areas of their business. …
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There are many use cases for the cloud and often times starting small is the best way to ensure success when transitioning projects to the cloud. Over the past several months, I have seen the cloud used to address some interesting IT and business challenges. The use cases below are small in comparison to the …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/06/3-cool-uses-cases-for-the-cloud/
Development and test teams are crunched for time just as much as they are crunched for resources. According to a recent survey, ‘developing applications faster’ is a top application delivery priority. The need for speed is amplified when employing an Agile development methodology, as the approach calls for shorter release cycles focused on specific customer …
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It’s no surprise that enterprises are continuing to increase their reliance on cloud computing. Users are ripe to take advantage of the cloud’s undeniable benefits including self-service freedom, flexibility, availability, scalability, and the simple joy of not having challenges related to hardware and software deployments. However, many business leaders have expressed concern about the security …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/06/keeping-the-cloud-under-control/
Are you attending HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas? If so, be sure to swing by the Skytap booth (#531) and learn how companies like HP, Google, Ellie Mae, Double-Take, LANDesk, Calypso, and hundreds more are using Skytap to move development and test projects to the cloud. With Skytap you can provide cloud testing capabilities that …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/06/skytap-to-deliver-cloud-enabled-application-lifecycle-management-with-hp/
Original Post Can be found on ReadWriteWeb.Com here. Night and day. Science and art. 1s and 0s. For years now, software development teams and operations/system administrators have maintained this kind of yin and yang duality, pushing each other in opposing, but complementary, directions. We’re all familiar with the dynamic of the IT department. Typically, the …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/05/three-reasons-why-devops-and-the-cloud-are-perfect-for-business-success/
There are some new and exciting things coming to Skytap Cloud. We are constantly gathering feedback from our customers to help drive our innovation at Skytap. In our upcoming May Release new features targeted include: Large Sized Virtual Machines Users will now have the ability to run applications that have either heavy computational requirements, extremely large …
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EarthSoft uses Skytap cloud computing for Training and Help Desk support. In this Office Hour, EarthSoft CTO Dr. Mat Weaver demonstrates how Skytap helps EarthSoft and our clients. Skytap provides cloud environments from the ground up, so users can start immediately, scale as required, and de-provision resources that are no longer required.
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/04/earthsoft-uses-skytap-cloud-for-training-and-help-desk-support/
