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Eating Our Own Dogfood: The Skytap Development Environment
If you're a developer working on a scalable web application, you've had your share of frustrations maintaining a development stack. In a simple LAMP shop, you can get away with...
Demystifying SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
As individuals, many of us use simple cloud services on a daily basis without even realizing it. If you use web-based services that provide email and storage, you're using the...
Cloud Freedom or Cloud Control? Why Not Both?
Let’s face it. As users, we all love the cloud model. Cloud enables us with self-service freedom, on-demand resources and pay-as-you go flexibility. In a matter of minutes...
Skytap Sponsors CloudCamp Seattle
Skytap is sponsoring CloudCamp Seattle on December 1, 2010 along with other Cloud industry leaders Microsoft, Amazon, Hubspan, IBM, and others. CloudCamp is an "unconference" where attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and...
Domain Based Development and Test Projects in Skytap is Heaven!
A lot of Skytap customers ask about running Windows domains in Skytap. Running domain controllers with test domains in Skytap Cloud can make a lot of sense. With the...
Skytap vs. Infrastructure-as-a-Service
We often get the question about how Skytap stacks up against ‘Infrastructure-as-a-Service’ vendors. We’ve put together a quick summary of Skytap vs. Amazon EC2 vs. Azure vs. Rackspace...
The Cloud Wars: Who Will Win?
Today, Microsoft announced its Windows Azure cloud computing offering, further validating the market for cloud-based platforms. Given the multitude of major players in this market, including Amazon and Google, and...