Category: Company News

Tapping into the Season of Giving with Seattle’s Treehouse

  • Posted on: December 21, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Rather than send out “traditional” holiday gifts to our amazing customers, this year we decided to start a new tradition—giving to a local Seattle charity on our customers’ behalf. Our customers certainly make our lives better, and we aim to do the same for them, so we thought that working together to make a positive impact on

Managing Dev/Test Environments with Ansible Dynamic Inventory for Skytap

  • Posted on: December 7, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
We are pleased to announce our latest open-source release – a Dynamic Ansible Inventory for use with Skytap Environments. Ansible is commonly used by DevOps teams to coordinate configuration changes for hosts over SSH (for Linux/Unix machines) or Powershell remoting (Windows). Ansible’s simple approach and ease of integration with existing infrastructure make it an attractive utility

Customer Success Series: Informatica’s Scalable Stellar Customer Experience

  • Posted on: November 10, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
We’re presenting a collection of stories on the awesome gains in scalability and efficiency, and reductions in costs and constraints that our customers shared with us at our recent Customer Advisory Board meeting. Informatica senior manager of global education services, Alex Gurevich quickly pointed out one of our favorite qualities of Skytap—that the benefits and

Continuous Delivery Decision Points: Getting Software Safely into Production

  • Posted on: November 10, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Consulting manager Kelly Looney is speaking this week at DevOps Days Detroit. We sat down with him to learn more about his session, and the evolving focus of DevOps that he and others have spotted. Noel: You’ve said that DevOps is evolving from focusing on build automation to full-on continuous delivery. What’s causing that evolution?

Customer Success Series: GE Healthcare Dramatically Expands Global Training

  • Posted on: November 6, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
At our most recent Customer Advisory Board meeting (see our CAB recap here), we sat down with Douglas McKelvey, Training and Services Readiness Manager at GE Healthcare, to learn how Skytap has helped his team increase the effectiveness of their training “100 fold” and take their classes for medical imaging software to a global audience.

CAB Recap Fall 2015: Customer Collaboration Drives Innovation

  • Posted on: October 28, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
We recently wrapped up two great day-and-a-half sessions of the Skytap Customer Advisory Board (or “Skytap CAB”) here by the waterfront in lovely Seattle. One session specifically for Dev/Test solution customers and another for Training/Demo customers, each of which have unique use cases and concerns. Collaboration with customers is a huge part of Skytap’s culture,
QAC and Skytap Partner Spotlight

Partner Spotlight: QA Consultants (QAC) and Skytap

  • Posted on: October 19, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Today’s partner spotlight comes to us from QA Consultants (QAC), a firm that is 100% dedicated to providing software testing services for their customers. You may have noticed today’s Partner Announcement with QAC. There is a great deal of in-house expertise in their Toronto, Canada center of excellence as well as their satellite offices, and Skytap provides them

What Can Software Testing Tea Leaves Tell Us?

  • Posted on: September 4, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Closely analyzing the evolution of software conference program schedules can often paint a pretty accurate picture of the current state of our industry. Sometimes that picture is rosy, and gives you confidence that we’re headed in the right direction—and sometimes it can cause downright fear. After pouring over this year’s STARWEST program, it’s clear that

Skytap Data Consumption Reduced by How Much?

  • Posted on: August 28, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
One of the coolest parts about working at Skytap is that people here are really excited about what our engineering team is building. I love when someone scours the newest release notes, or has been working closely with the engineering team to help deliver an exciting new feature—and then cannot wait to spread the word
Skytap vApp VM Import and Nesting Feature

Automated vApp and Multi-VM Import = Big Time-to-Value Impact

  • Posted on: August 17, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Let’s take this opportunity to highlight two new import features in Skytap EaaS that will likely make a huge impact on the productivity and time-to-value for every Skytap customer. Now you can directly import multiple VMs, or a complete virtual application stack directly into Skytap environments, and have Skytap automatically handle the configuration and setup

Skytap Panel Appearance and More at UK’s Cloud World Forum

  • Posted on: June 19, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Cloud World Forum is EMEA’s largest cloud and DevOps expo and Skytap is proud to sponsor and participate in a number of exciting talks and activities throughout the week! With the recent opening of our London office, appearing at Cloud World Forum was an absolute must and we cannot wait for the show to begin.

Brad Schick on Evolving Complex Enterprise Applications to the Cloud

  • Posted on: June 8, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap’s CTO Brad Schick is fresh off a roadshow circuit, including a presentation at the recent OpenStack 2015 conference in Vancouver. In this talk, Brad frames the common adoption patterns for enterprises moving applications to cloud infrastructure. There are several well-known strategies for embarking on public cloud initiatives, but the most successful ones seem to