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Skytap Joins Forces with HP and Orasi to Power New CloudPerform Solution

Nate Odell — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:12 +0000

Our customers repeatedly echoed the same challenge: how can we enable our dev/test teams to deliver high quality software on time and on budget? With the increasing adoption of the cloud, many enterprises are starting to realize how this new computing paradigm can effectively support this effort. In fact, according to Alexandra Weber Morales, a …

Skytap Cloud Recognized as 2011 Products of the Year Winner

apinter — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:00:38 +0000

SEATTLE, Wash. – January 16, 2012 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that the Skytap Cloud was named a 2011 Product of the Year winner by TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com in the Virtualization Management category. For the second consecutive year, Skytap was recognized for its self-service simplicity, as well as …

Skytap Announces Compliance with SSAE (SOC 1) Standards

apinter — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:56 +0000

SEATTLE, Wash. – January 9, 2012 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that it has completed an examination in conformity with the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16, Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization. The SSAE 16 audit effectively replaces SAS 70 as the …

Skytap Announces Over One Million Virtual Machines Launched

apinter — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:38 +0000

SEATTLE, Wash. – January 9, 2011 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that over one million virtual machines (VMs) have been launched by customers using its leading Skytap Cloud service. This represents a major milestone for Skytap, which provides businesses with an easy and secure way to create …

Cushman & Wakefield Selects Skytap to Build Development and Test Environments in the Cloud

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:00:14 +0000

Seattle, Wash. – December 12, 2011 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that Cushman & Wakefield, the world’s largest privately held real estate services firm operating in 230 global locations across 60 countries, has chosen to move its application development and test environments to the Skytap Cloud. Cushman …

5 Tips For Adopting Agile IT Methodologies

Nate Odell — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:17:17 +0000

The cloud model provides convenient, affordable, and on-demand computing resources tailored for software development teams as well as augmenting in-house IT environments. Today’s leading companies use the cloud to change IT to be more agile and power their agile software development teams. Below are five tips that enable them to deliver agile IT. 1. Don’t …

Inter-Configuration Network Routing in the Skytap Cloud

admin — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:39:53 +0000

Recently Skytap announced the release of a new feature, termed Inter-Configuration Network Routing or ICNR for short. We have seen broad adoption of this feature so far, and I thought for today’s topic we look to a couple of fantastic use-cases for this new capability within the Skytap cloud. Just a brief re-cap. ICNR allows …

As Lab Manager Goes Away….

admin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:59:20 +0000

The big VMWorld 2011 event in Las Vegas is over – fortunately, my hotel room was not left with a goat, Mike Tyson, a lion sleeping on the bed or anything of the sort. Or, at least, that I’m aware of. While it was a fantastic event, filled with a ton of excitement, the message …

Wrangling an out of control cloud with notification and usage limits

admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:43:02 +0000

Now that I’ve shifted the majority of my day-to-day workflow to the cloud it’s easier than ever to have custom environments for each project I’m working on. I still use Google Docs for most document creation and project tracking (lesson learned from an earlier hard drive failure) but for my demo environments, which involve complicated …

7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects – Part Three

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:00:32 +0000

Lat week we posted part two of our series: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects. This week we will cover habits 6 and 7. Habit #6: Let your users share IT environments; be sure to manage user roles A big part of being agile in software development is the ability for developers, test engineers and support …