Structure 08
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Skytap, VMware, Virtual Lab | No Comments »A few weeks back the Skytap team went to Structure 08 in San Francisco to hang out with the “who’s who” of cloud computing. We had two full days of meetings and showed off the latest features from Skytap Virtual ...
Skytap on Scobleizer TV
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Skytap, Virtual Lab | No Comments »Robert Scoble was in our offices recently. Check out the two videos he filmed on Skytap here and here: http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/demo-skytap-iphone-virtual-lab-testing-and-qa-enterprise-apps http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/seattles-skytap-lets-enterprises-remotely-manage-your-datacenter -Ian
Behind the buzz – what is cloud computing?
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing, Skytap, Virtual Lab | No Comments »Why the buzz? There is an incredible buzz around cloud computing recently, with major articles in Business Week, InfoWorld, CIO.com and numerous other publications, blogs and analyst reports. Nicholas Carr has written a bestselling book on the topic called “The Big ...
Application Development and Eco-Efficient IT
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Green IT, Virtual Lab | No Comments »There's been a lot of hype around the need for ‘Green IT’ and how computing usage affects the environment. The 451 Group published an excellent report summarizing how IT impacts the environment and actually shows that IT’s greenhouse-gas contributions are ...
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
Virtual Lab - May ‘Limited Availability’ Release Now Live!
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Releases, Virtual Lab | No Comments »Today we upgraded our production environment to the May 'Limited Availability' Release! We have made broad improvements across our product to make it easier, more reliable, more secure and even faster to use. Here's a list of enhancements included in the ...
STAREAST
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Events, Virtual Lab | No Comments »We just got back from STAREAST in Orlando and had a great experience. We met a huge number of experienced QA and IT professionals and got lots of interest in our Virtual Lab service. We spent most of our time ...
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 ...
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 ...