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Dev/Test: A 5-Step Process for Tuning out the Cloud Hype

By Alex Burreson    |    May 16, 2013    |    Development and Testing

Over the past few years it would have been hard to miss the slow and systematic outsourcing of certain parts of corporate IT. The primary solution has been cloud computingâ€...

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WEBINAR Cloud-enabled ALM: CI and Automated Testing

By Alison Pinter    |    May 14, 2013    |    Development and Testing

Join us Tuesday, May 28, at 11:00 am PT (2:00 pm ET) for Cloud Enabled ALM: Continuous Integration & Automated Testing. Enterprises today are looking for ways to accelerate their rate of innovation, increase...

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250 Enterprise Customers Deploy More Than 2 Million Virtual Machines

By Julie Riedel    |    May 13, 2013    |    Product Development

Today we are proud to announce that 250 enterprise customers have deployed more than two million virtual machines using Skytap Cloud. Enterprise companies are increasingly deploying a hybrid cloud computing architecture,...

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Skytap Named to OnDemand 100 List for Innovation in Cloud Computing

By Julie Riedel    |    May 10, 2013    |    Product Development

Skytap is proud to announce our inclusion in the AlwaysOn's 2013 OnDemand 100 Top Private Companies list. “Being selected for the OnDemand 100 for the fourth consecutive year is a testament to Skytapâ€...

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Agile Development Teams: An Infrastructure Checklist

By Nate Odell    |    May 07, 2013    |    Development and Testing

The goal of agile development is to shift from a long and inflexible development process to a shorter, more collaborative process that enables the shipping of software more frequently. To...

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Q & A at STAREAST in Florida

By Alison Pinter    |    May 06, 2013    |    Development and Testing

The Skytap team had a great time in Orlando this past week at STAREAST. We had a chance to meet and speak with hundreds of professionals about software testing, tools,...

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Think You Can’t Control the Cloud? Think Again.

By Julie Riedel    |    May 02, 2013    |    Development and Testing, IT Operations

In a recent article for ReadWriteWeb, Matt Asay talks about the very real need for IT to have security and control without becoming a bottleneck. From the article: It's hard...

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User Support Series: Cloudera Hadoop Cluster Public Template

By Dylan Holmes    |    April 30, 2013    |    Development and Testing, Product Development

In this entry of the User Support series, we'll take a look at the Cloudera Hadoop Public Template. You can find information on all Skytap public templates by navigating to...