Use Cases

CIOs

With Skytap you can:
  • Move dynamic workloads such as ERP migration, departmental apps, user training to the cloud.
  • Free up expensive IT resources and data center capacity for mission critical projects.
  • Implement your cloud strategy immediately without any risk.

Developers and Testers

With Skytap you can:
  • Create multiple development and test configurations for remote teams.
  • Scale capacity for performance testing projects for a fraction the cost of on-premise resources.
  • Avoid capital expense budgeting challenges and eliminate IT dependency for configuration change management.

We’re buying an SLA with Skytap. We no long suffer delays caused by an inefficient IT provisioning process and our IT costs are more than 60% lower using Skytap’s cloud service

wildblue
Mike Casullo,
CIO, WildBlue
Case Study

Skytap provides us with far greater flexibility than a physical IT lab. Testing our software on client platforms, such as Windows 7, can be achieved without waiting for IT operations to manually provision machines. Skytap's self-service model and pre-built virtual machine templates means my team can provision a new test environment in minutes.

Ellie Mae
Ron Yun,
Director, Quality Assurance,
Ellie Mae
Case Study

Sales Engineers, Consultants

With Skytap you can:
  • Set up personalized software demo and project configurations for high value clients.
  • Configure multiple client environments with powerful cloud servers. No more old laptops, IT hassles.
  • Get the capacity you need without purchasing speed bumps. The power to get things done is at your fingertips.

Training Professionals

With Skytap you can:
  • Create powerful hands-on training classrooms for multiple users.
  • Assess skills with live software, no  animated mock-ups.
  • Manage multiple classroom configurations, change them at will and recreate them instantly.

With hundreds of sales professionals worldwide, we were looking for a highly scalable cloud solution that could offer access to our latest demo builds. Using Skytap, our sales engineers can launch their own virtual lab in seconds to demo any product or answer customer questions on a proof-of-concept in real time.

opentext
Neil Wilson
Technical marketing manager, OpenText

In the virtual world the possibilities are endless, and when you couple that with the flexibility and cost savings of an on-demand delivery model the solution becomes extremely compelling .

vdiworks
Rick Hoffman,
CEO, VDIworks
Case Study
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