A Cloud for Development Teams

Build, scale and share your dev / test environments

At Skytap we believe cloud computing is about more than just managing virtual machines (VMs). It is about the entire virtual environment and development teams collaborating to produce great software. With Skytap cloud you can get up and running quickly and easily in seconds:

• Run existing apps with little to no changes or create new ones
• Start from 100s of OS templates or import your own
• Scale environments to 10s of networks, 100s of machines, 1000s of GB storage
• Collaborate and share complete environments

Watch a complex IBM Websphere Application Environment deployed in less than 60 seconds in Skytap Cloud.

Skytap is a different class of cloud

Bring your existing applications, tools and processes completely intact to the Skytap cloud.

• Create complex environments with 100s of VMs and multiple networks.
• Desktop access to VMs without exposing them on the Internet.
• Suspend and resume multi-VM environments in seconds.
• Run multiple environments in parallel without resource constraints or IP conflicts
• Publish secure desktop access to environments using a URL.



There are many more killer features in Skytap. Give it a spin and you’ll see what we mean.

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Create and scale complex environments, flexibly and easily

Skytap supports most flavors of Windows, Linux and Open Solaris. You can pretty much configure and scale all aspects of your environment including:

• CPUs up to 8 virtual cores
• Memory up to 32 GB
• Storage up to 2 TB per volume
• Network interface cards up to 4
• Networks up to 5

Once you configure an environment you can save it as a template and create exact run-time copies.

Suspend and resume VMs in seconds

The suspend and resume action in Skytap Cloud is different than what you might have seen in other clouds. All suspend operations are done in constant time and typically complete in seconds. When you suspend an environment, Skytap saves the entire state of all VMs including its memory.

Run multiple parallel environments

Once you create a “golden master” development, test, or staging environment, you can provision multiple parallel environments from the “golden master” template. Run multiple tests in parallel and shorten your release cycles. As you go through your test runs, when you encounter a bug, you can create a copy of the environment capturing the exact state at that time which can be used for debugging. Unlike other clouds, Skytap environments run in an isolated vLAN, so there will be no networking or resource naming conflicts.

Collaborate with your team on complex IT stacks

Once you set up your environments, you can easily add them to projects and invite your colleagues and assign them specific roles and privileges. While VMs are accessible through the Skytap Remote Access Client, they are not themselves accessible over the Internet without you taking specific actions such as attaching a public IP or publishing a port.