Skytap + Google = No App Left Behind
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing, Releases, Skytap | No Comments »Skytap Inc., today announced it has added the Skytap Cloud™ to the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. Skytap enables organizations to deploy enterprise applications unchanged in the cloud and collaborate securely ...
Network Automation Annoucement
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing, Releases, Skytap | No Comments »Today Skytap announced breakthrough network automation capabilities that simplify and accelerate the creation, migration and deployment of multi-tier enterprise applications in the cloud. These features empower IT organizations to create virtual data centers with advanced network topologies and enable functional ...
Repost: Private Clouds Are A Fix, Not The Future
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »An excellent post from Alistair Croll today 'Private Clouds Are A Fix, Not The Future'. Today we see companies moving low risk, dynamic workloads to the cloud, but as Alistair points out, in the not-so-distant-future, we'll see a large chunk ...
2010 Cloud Computing Predictions: The Year of Realism
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »2010 Cloud Computing Predictions: The Year of Realism The buzz around cloud computing reached fever pitch this year, culminating in Gartner placing cloud computing at the peak of its hype cycle in July. We saw controversy around the Open Cloud Manifesto, ...
Are All Clouds Equal and Ready for Enterprise IT Workloads?
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Lots of enterprises are evaluating external clouds, such as Skytap and Amazon EC2, to off-load their dynamic IT workloads. Top candidates include dev/test, IT prototyping and application migration environments. These can account for 35% or more of IT infrastructure and ...
Is Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Now a Commodity?
Monday, October 5th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »During VMworld in Sep we saw the launch of several ‘vCloud Express’ partners that aim to provide some more competition for Amazon EC2. It’s getting to be a crowded market place with players such as Rackspace and GoGrid also providing ...
Skytap announces Windows 7 testing in the cloud
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing, Skytap | No Comments »Today we announced support for application compatibility testing on Windows 7, Microsoft’s highly anticipated follow up to Vista. Using Skytap, customers can quickly and cost-effectively spin up a virtual sandbox in the cloud to ensure applications run correctly on the ...
Cloud Adoption: Who to Believe?
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »There have been a slew of articles in the last few months attempting to shed light on the state of 'cloud adoption'. Here are a few recent headlines: 'Survey: Fear Slows Cloud Computing Adoption', Information Week, February 2009 "Major shift to cloud ...
Skytap / Rightscale Interop Cloud Mixer Photos
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Here are some shots from the Skytap / RightScale cocktail mixer tonight at Interop on the 64th floor of Mandalay Bay in the Mix Lounge. If you are at Interop, join our CTO, John Janakirman, on the panel session tomorrow May ...
Skytap Takes the Stage with Amazon, Google and Rightscale in Live Cloud Demo at Interop
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Skytap presented on stage today along with Amazon, Google, RightScale for live demos of ‘real world’ cloud computing scenarios and interoperability. Along with the team from BitCurrent and Syntenic, we demo'ed agile software development and testing in the cloud using ...
