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Top 5 Reasons to Have a Cloud Strategist on Staff

admin — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:56:49 +0000

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. …

Five Steps to Agile Development in the Cloud

admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:30:12 +0000

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 …

New Features Coming to Skytap Cloud

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 12:16:37 +0000

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 …

Skytap Sponsors CloudCamp Seattle

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:09:55 +0000

Skytap is sponsoring CloudCamp Seattle on December 1, 2010 along with other Cloud industry leaders Microsoft, Amazon, Hubspan, IBM, and others. CloudCamp is an “unconference” where attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies. Skytap representatives John Janakiraman, CTO and …

2011 Predictions for Cloud Automation Market

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:01:00 +0000

1. Usability and collaboration will become a central theme for cloud automation Business users who are planning for growth and productivity gains in 2011 will look at cloud automation as a way to quickly share and iterate new ideas and initiatives. They will prioritize cloud automation solutions that deliver business agility. In addition to development …

The Skytap VMWorld 2010 iPad Winner is…

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:29:06 +0000

The Skytap VMWorld 2010 iPad Winner is… Over 1000+ visitors stopped by the Skytap Booth at VMWorld 2010 to see what the excitement was all about and to learn why Skytap earned a Best of VMWorld Finalist Award. As you know each person that stopped by was automatically entered in to win an Apple iPad …

Skytap To Discuss Cloud Economics & Licensing At Burton Group Catalyst Conference

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:36:22 +0000

Today we proudly announced that Deanne Harper, senior manager of Speech University at Nuance Communications, and our very own Sundar Raghavan, chief product and marketing officer at Skytap, will present at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference on July 28, 2010 in San Diego, CA. Both Harper and Raghavan will discuss real world applications for the cloud …

CloudCamp Brings Together Seattle’s Cloud Innovators

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:52:26 +0000

We attended CloudCamp Seattle on Saturday and participated in the first CloudCamp unconference to visit the emerald city. Seattle is home to an impressive list of cloud computing companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google’s seattle campus), as well as a growing list of emerging startups (Decho, Skytap, and a plethora of SaaS companies). This makes Seattle …

Recasting Virtualization Initiatives as Cloud Initiatives

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:50:08 +0000

According to Forrester and Gartner, consolidating servers through virtualization can result in up to 50% savings on hardware costs¹ and a 15-20% reduction in total cost of ownership² once a project is complete and project costs have been included. I’d wager most IT managers would agree that virtualization has been a cost saving strategy for …

Better Software with Crowdsourcing and Cloud Computing

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:47:12 +0000

Crowdsourcing and cloud computing are two exciting trends in the tech industry. We’ve teamed up with our friends at uTest to show how you can combine online communities and cloud-based infrastructure to build better software. Join our 30 minute live Webcast tomorrow to learn: • How crowdsourcing and cloud computing can be used together to improve …