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Virtual lab automation is ... a breakthrough use of technology revolutionizing the computing industry

Theresa Lanowitz and Lisa Dronzek, vokeStream, March 2007

We’ve been using Skytap’s service for several months and have been impressed with its capabilities and the significant productivity gains our team has experienced

Eric Blankenburg, CTO of Resolute
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Skytap is the leading provider of cloud-based virtual lab solutions that enable rapid development, testing, and deployment of applications in a 100% on-demand 'virtual data center'. Cloud computing is poised to become the defining technology of the 21st century and Skytap's goal is to make serving up virtual machines over the internet as ubiquitous as delivering html to a browser. Depending on how you look at us, we're about maximizing efficiencies, minimizing costs, eliminating unnecessary hardware, outsourcing, eco-efficient computing, and doing more with less.

Skytap’s initial product offering, Skytap Virtual Lab, provides the following capabilities:

  • 'Virtual Data Center' On Demand. Virtually unlimited server, software, storage and network bandwidth available from any location and any browser. Skytap Virtual Lab scales up and down with business needs and requires no upfront investment.
  • Automated Set-Up and Tear-Down of Environments. A full-featured, Web-based virtual lab automation application that eliminates manual set-up and tear-down of transient environments and enables the rapid provisioning and replication of multi-machine environments for development and QA, IT ops testing, training and demo labs.
  • Skytap LibraryTM. A pre-populated software library that includes major operating systems, databases and applications in multiple languages that dramatically reduces media installation tasks and enables construction of lab environments by dragging and dropping pre-configured virtual machines.
  • Collaboration in a Virtual Environment. The capability to instantly collaborate on virtual machines over the Web. Entire multi-machine lab environments can be suspended and shared with distributed, global team members to enable scenarios such as distance learning or the reproduction and diagnosis of software bugs and issues.

Skytap is a private venture-backed company based in Seattle’s Pioneer Square. The company has an experienced executive team with veterans from HP, Microsoft, Mercury Interactive, Rational Software, and EMC. The company was founded in 2006 and has received funding from Madrona Venture Group, Ignition Partners, Bezos Expeditions, and Washington Research Foundation Capital.

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