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Let Your Geek Flag Fly!

By Julie Riedel    |    May 23, 2013    |   

As die-hard fans of cloud computing and everything technology-related, we felt like Geek Pride Day was an appropriate time to wave our geek flag all across the interwebs. ​Celebrated on...

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PMTUD Black Holes: Causing a Subtle Set of Issues in Hybrid Clouds

By Pete Holland    |    May 23, 2013    |    Development and Testing, IT Operations

​I recently had a piece published in the Cloud Computing Journal. In it, I talked about how a PMTUD black hole can cause a particularly subtle set of issues in...

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SharePoint in the Cloud: Environment Management and Complex Application Integration

By Julie Riedel    |    May 21, 2013    |    Development and Testing, IT Operations

While many of the development challenges faced early in a SharePoint project are not unique to SharePoint, they can be exacerbated due to the breadth, number of options, and interaction...

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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...