Accelerate Agile Development and Test Cycles With Scalable Virtual Datacenters

Dynamic workloads, such as development and test, App migration, IT sandbox, Virtual training and Sales demo environments are critical for successful business operations. However, too often the traditional IT infrastructure lacks the flexibility and manageability required to support these workloads and causes business delays and budget overruns.

Cloud automation dramatically changes the way enterprises deliver IT workloads by utilizing scalable, efficient cloud computing resources that are accessed and managed through a self-service Web UI.

Key Benefits:

  • Empower users and increase user productivity
  • Maintain control of the cloud with existing IT standards and policies
  • Enable collaboration across global teams
  • Dramatically reduce administrative overhead and server sprawl
  • Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 70% or more

Empower users and increase user productivity

Skytap gives users instant, self-service access to dynamic IT environments over the Web. Creating an environment is simplified with an intuitive 'point-and-click' interface that allows rapid selection from the Skytap Library and deployment to the Skytap Cloud. Because Skytap is based on open standards, users can deploy existing applications in the cloud without any code or architectural changes.

Maintain control of the cloud with existing IT standards and policies

Skytap enables IT standards and policies to be enforced globally. Typical control points, capabilities, audits, and reports include:

  • Enterprise networking standards for virtual data centers
  • Security standards such as single sign on with SAML and OpenID
  • Role-based access control by group, by project, and by virtual data center
  • Easy Hybrid Cloud access via 2 way IPSEC VPN tunnel to ensure management of cloud as an extension of in house data centers
  • Full reporting of activities and changes by group, by project, and by virtual data center
  • Fully reporting of usage and budget consumption by group, by project, and by virtual data center
Skytap allows those consultants that are remotely distributed throughout the country to have access to our projects as if they were inside our four walls. Manager of Application Development, Centric Group

Enable collaboration across global teams

With the rise of offshore development and testing, organizations usually have team members working in different parts of the world. Skytap offers distributed teams a common cloud-based IT platform which solves the problem of inconsistent environments and conflicting access. Skytap has a granular user access model that enable teams to isolate external contractors in specific work areas, or give them access rights for the environments and tasks that apply to their specific roles.

Dramatically reduce administrative overhead and server sprawl

Server sprawl is a common problem reported by IT administrators. However, many organizations are now reporting a new problem of virtual machine sprawl. Even when hardware is centralized in a common pool, virtual machines can become difficult to manage and track. Skytap solves this problem by providing a configuration library to create, manage, track, share and deploy virtual machines.

Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 70% or more

Skytap offers savings and cost control capabilities which reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of dynamic IT workloads by 70% or more. Using the cloud for dynamic workloads is ideal given that these environments are typically only 20-30% utilized. The cloud requires payment for only those resources that have been consumed so hard dollar savings can be immediate. In addition, quotas can be applied to individuals and organizations to cap usage at soft or hard budget limits. Integrated Skytap Cloud Automation enables simple and fast self service provisioning ensuring that minimal users and IT effort (or cost) is required to set up or maintain environments. Finally, Skytap enables virtual data center environments to be automatically suspended when not in use to ensure cloud overuse is avoided.