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Skytap Cloud Recognized as 2011 Products of the Year Winner

apinter — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:00:38 +0000

SEATTLE, Wash. – January 16, 2012 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that the Skytap Cloud was named a 2011 Product of the Year winner by TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com in the Virtualization Management category. For the second consecutive year, Skytap was recognized for its self-service simplicity, as well as …

As Lab Manager Goes Away….

admin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:59:20 +0000

The big VMWorld 2011 event in Las Vegas is over – fortunately, my hotel room was not left with a goat, Mike Tyson, a lion sleeping on the bed or anything of the sort. Or, at least, that I’m aware of. While it was a fantastic event, filled with a ton of excitement, the message …

7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects – Part Three

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:00:32 +0000

Lat week we posted part two of our series: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects. This week we will cover habits 6 and 7. Habit #6: Let your users share IT environments; be sure to manage user roles A big part of being agile in software development is the ability for developers, test engineers and support …

7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects – Part Two

Nate Odell — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:00:42 +0000

Lat week we posted part one of our series: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects. This week we will cover habits 3 through 5. Habit #3: Empower your users with self-service & create internal evangelists As an IT architect, teams count on you to drive rapid innovation within your organization. Cloud computing promises to …

Why You Need to Transition Your IT Sandbox Environments to the Cloud

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:45:08 +0000

Today’s IT managers are facing a classic conundrum. On the one hand, we all recognize that IT sandbox environments are an emerging necessity. Companies increasingly need a place for dynamic workloads, such as migration and software evaluations, security testing, pre-production test beds, training sessions and IT labs. And yet, these IT sandbox environments typically aren’t …

Keeping the Cloud Under Control

admin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:10:18 +0000

It’s no surprise that enterprises are continuing to increase their reliance on cloud computing. Users are ripe to take advantage of the cloud’s undeniable benefits including self-service freedom, flexibility, availability, scalability, and the simple joy of not having challenges related to hardware and software deployments. However, many business leaders have expressed concern about the security …

Three Reasons Why DevOps and the Cloud are Perfect for Business Success

admin — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:58:38 +0000

Original Post Can be found on ReadWriteWeb.Com here. Night and day. Science and art. 1s and 0s. For years now, software development teams and operations/system administrators have maintained this kind of yin and yang duality, pushing each other in opposing, but complementary, directions. We’re all familiar with the dynamic of the IT department. Typically, the …

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 …

EarthSoft Uses Skytap Cloud For Training and Help Desk Support

admin — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:36:07 +0000

EarthSoft uses Skytap cloud computing for Training and Help Desk support. In this Office Hour, EarthSoft CTO Dr. Mat Weaver demonstrates how Skytap helps EarthSoft and our clients. Skytap provides cloud environments from the ground up, so users can start immediately, scale as required, and de-provision resources that are no longer required.

5 Mistakes SMB’s Can Avoid When Moving to the Cloud

admin — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:07:31 +0000

As Featured On ReadWriteWeb.Com 1. Loving a Cloud before determining the problem you are trying to solve. Just move to the cloud. It’s easy right? As they say on TV…”To the Cloud!”. The fact is, moving to the cloud as an SMB can be both advantageous and overwhelming. Adopting cloud computing technology within your organization …