Benefits at a glance

  • Increase agility and reduce costs
    • Run existing applications unchanged
    • Align computing capacity with demand
    • Reduce costs by up to 70%
  • Empower users
    • Enable 100% self-service provisioning
    • Create customizable virtual data centers
    • Provide global project and team collaboration
  • Get visibility and control
    • Create secure, hybrid clouds
    • Enforce cloud standards and security
    • Manage usage quota, budget, and chargebacks

Self-Service Web Interface

  • Create and provision multi-machine virtual data centers in seconds
  • Use the Skytap Remote Access Console to gain secure desktop level access to virtual machines using modern browsers
  • Start, shut-down, suspend and snapshot virtual machines individually or the complete virtual data center

Skytap Cloud Library

  • Browse and search a pre-populated software library which includes virtual images of major operating systems, databases and other system and application software in multiple languages
  • Create multi-machine virtual datacenters from pre-defined templates
  • Organize configurations in personal and project views
  • Upload existing virtual machine images for use in Skytap
  • Upload and manage custom software builds, test assets and tools
  • Edit tags and metadata to enable fast filtering of content

Skytap Groups, Roles and Permissions

  • Create groups, assign roles and permissions
  • Manage user and team permissions, quotas and account settings
  • Run comprehensive usage and audit reports
  • Implement file-system level encryption
  • Gain visibility and control; implement IT security policies

Skytap Projects, Snapshots, Resource Links

  • Create projects and share configurations, assets and resources
  • Suspend, snapshot and share multi-machine configurations
  • Email or IM a Skytap Resource Link pointing to a snapshot or live running configuration

Skytap Hybrid Clouds and Advanced Networks

  • Create multiple networks in a configuration
  • Create multiple network adapters in a VM and connect to multiple networks
  • Import virtual routers and configure advanced routing and security policies
  • Snapshot an entire configuration with advanced networks and save as a template
  • Connect virtual machines to corporate data centers using 2-way IPSec VPN tunnel
  • Make Skytap an extension of your data center and manage remotely

Skytap Cloud Infrastructure

  • Deploy configurations on demand using Skytap's cloud infrastructure pool
  • Configure network fencing, hostnames, IP addresses, and subnet settings
  • Run multiple instances of the same multi-machine configuration side by side
  • Specify memory and CPU characteristics for each VM
  • Gain full root control and access machines via VNC, RDP, or SSH

Integration and Extensibility

  • Control cloud resources through a rich Web services (REST) API
  • Connect back to in-house environments using a Hybrid Cloud
  • Assign public IP addresses to virtual machines

Skytap Cloud System Requirements

  • Java Virtual Machine (JVM) 1.6+
  • Modern browsers