5 Points To Make When Your CEO Cries Cloud
Monday, January 11th, 2010 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »I saw an interesting article today in Information Week (click here to view) discussing how to respond to execs when they ask what your cloud strategy is. We're seeing many companies come to us after a CEO and/or CIO has ...
Skytap Brings Real-Time Team Collaboration and Role-Based Security Policies to the Cloud
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »Today we announced the release of innovative new capabilities that enable users to collaborate over the Web using cloud-based virtual data centers (VDCs). In the same way solutions such as SharePoint and WebEx enable teams to collaborate on documents, Skytap ...
Skytap vs. Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »We often get the question about how Skytap stacks up against 'Infrastructure-as-a-Service' vendors. We've put together a quick summary of Skytap vs. Amazon EC2 vs. Azure vs. Rackspace so you can see how different we are, esp. for dynamic IT ...
Skytap’s ISV Customers Reach 100,000 Software Demo Milestone
Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »Today we announced that numerous software vendors, including Acresso, HP, OpenText, and SchemaLogic, have collectively delivered over 100,000 software demos and proof of concepts (POCs) to their customers using Skytap’s cloud platform. Similar to hosting an online meeting, Skytap allows ...
Lab Management: In-House or Cloud?
Friday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »Over the last couple of years, we've spent lots of time working with prospects as they make the decision whether to build their own lab infrastructure (using vendors such as VMware lab manager, VMlogix, Surgient or the upcoming Microsoft Test ...
SCREENCAST: Developer Multi-Tasking in the Cloud
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »Ever been in the situation where you're in the middle of developing some code, a new high priority work item / bug arrives you need to deal with, but you don't want to switch out your dev stack and ...
Participate in voke’s Virtual Lab Management Survey
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »Theresa Lanowitz of voke, inc., is conducting research on usage and best practices of virtual lab technologies. If you want to share your experiences, click on this link to participate. The best part is everyone that participates receives a copy ...
Skytap Collaborates with HP to Provide Enterprise Testing Capabilities in the Cloud
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »Skytap, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based IT labs, announced collaboration with HP to provide cloud testing capabilities that leverage HP’s Business Technology Optimization (BTO) solutions. Skytap also announced integration with HP Quality Center and HP LoadRunner software to enable ...
Skytap Named To the First Annual InformationWeek Startup 50
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »Skytap has been named to the first annual listing of the InformationWeek Startup 50, revealed in the April 20th edition of InformationWeek Magazine and on InformationWeek.com. Skytap was one of only a handful of cloud computing vendors named to this ...
Surgient Exiting Its Hosting Business?
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »Articles today in the Austin Business Journal and virtualization.info seem to indicate Surgient is exiting its hosted service business. Trying to compete in both a packaged software and a 'SaaS' type business is rarely a great business strategy - each ...
