VMware prepares to enter the cloud computing market
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in News, VMware, Virtual Lab | No Comments »Virtualization.info posted an article today showing the 5 stages of virtualization adoption predicted by VMware. They call out Skytap and Desktone as two leading companies that are already delivering stage 5 capabilities -Ian
On-Site vs. Cloud Blog Discussion
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing, News | No Comments »Dan Kusnetzky from ZDNet recently posted an article on his blog listing various vendors that provide test lab and IT prototyping functionality. It's an interesting debate and we're obviously big advocates of using a cloud-based service for a number of ...
Skytap Virtual Lab Nominated for “Best Virtual Lab Automation”
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in News, Virtual Lab | No Comments »We just got nominated for 'Best Virtual Lab Automation' solution for the SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry" has been one of the most prestigious industry ...
Tips for Renaming a Company
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »Today we renamed the company from illumita to Skytap. We made the decision in December to rename the company because customers couldn’t pronounce or remember illumita. They’d also often get it confused with illuminati (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati) – not exactly what we were after. So ...
Skytap Announcement
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in News, Virtual Lab | No Comments »April 10th is an exciting day for the Skytap team. Today, we’ve done 3 things: We’ve officially launched and rebranded the company, coming out of “stealth” as a cloud-based virtualization solution provider; We’ve announced availability for our first product – Skytap ...