Skytap Integration with Visual Studio Team System
October 27th, 2008 Posted in Skytap | No Comments »Here’s a 2 min screencast to show the Visual Studio Team System integration we are demoing at Microsoft’s PDC today.
VSTS Integation Screencast
What is Infrastructure-as-a-Service?
October 13th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Wikipedia defines Infrastructure-as-a-Service as ‘the delivery of computer infrastructure (typically a platform virtualization environment) as a service’.
I believe we’ll see an evolution of offerings that build on the IaaS category. The two leading use cases right now are app/web site hosting and testing/training/demo. For app/web site hosting, a service provider should support standard operating system [...]
Skytap Announces ISV Alliance Program for Cloud Computing
October 1st, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »Skytap today announced its Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Alliance program to enable on-demand distribution of commercial software solutions through its Virtual Lab platform. Skytap’s initial ISV partners, including Appistry, AutomatedQA, Borland, iTKO LISA, SmarteSoft and SOASTA, will make available their solutions as for-fee titles in the Skytap Library. Skytap’s Virtual Lab automation platform, combined with [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Skytap at VMworld
September 29th, 2008 Posted in Events | No Comments »We had an incredible show at VMworld and a huge amount of interest given the vCloud announcement. I included a couple of pictures below from the show. You can read our vCloud press release here.
Congratulations to Tim Suttle from TechSoup who won the Nintendo Wii drawing!
Skytap Announces Worldwide Resell Agreement with SAVVIS
September 28th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based infrastructure solutions, today announced a strategic alliance with SAVVIS Inc., a global leader in IT infrastructure services for business applications, to resell Skytap’s Virtual Lab service. The alliance enables SAVVIS customers to quickly and cost effectively conduct software development and testing in the cloud using Skytap’s Virtual Lab [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Skytap Showcases ‘Hybrid’ Cloud Service and Joins VMware vCloud Initiative
September 15th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »Today at VMworld in Las Vegas, Skytap, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based virtual infrastructure solutions announced it has joined the VMware vCloud Initiative to participate in developing an integrated set of services via standard APIs to allow the seamless extension of traditional IT into the cloud. Skytap’s existing cloud-based Virtual Lab platform enables organizations [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Virtual Lab – September Release Now Live!
September 10th, 2008 Posted in Releases | No Comments »The September 2008 release of Skytap Virtual Lab went live today! A list of feature enhancements present in the September release is provided below – thanks for your continued input on the product!
- Publish VM URLs
Create universally accessible desktops on demand by publishing access URLs for virtual machines you choose, while securing the VMs with [...]
API and ‘One-Click’ VPN Screencasts
September 10th, 2008 Posted in Releases, Skytap | No Comments »We launched our REST-based Web services API and one-click VPN functionality today which gives organizations a way to use cloud resources as as an extension of existing onsite IT environments.
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