Category: Company News

Why Skytap is Proud to Sponsor Ada Developers Academy

  • Posted on: May 26, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is proud to be a new sponsor of Seattle’s Ada Developers Academy. Learn how the group started, and how you, too, can help them help so many succeed! Noel: First off, thank you Karen for sitting down with me today. We’re so excited about our new sponsorship of the  Ada Developers Academy. Would you

Working to Narrow Seattle’s Software/Tech Gender Gap

  • Posted on: May 21, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Special thanks to Skytap’s Jill Domanico, Jewel von Kempf, Michele Costello, and Kat White for their contributions to this piece and our efforts to increase diversity in our own office and Seattle as a whole! When thinking of the reasons why it’s an awesome time to work at Skytap, there are tons that come to

New VM Display Feature Conserves Bandwidth, Preserves Quality

  • Posted on: May 20, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
In our early-April release, Skytap introduced a new feature to the single-vm toolbar: VM Display Quality Settings. These quality settings allow users to conserve bandwidth by selecting a lower display quality when appropriate and/or necessary. In addition to offering multiple display options, Skytap has adjusted the compression method used by the single-VM view. This means

Skytap CTO to Cover Hybrid Apps and OpenStack at Two Upcoming Events

  • Posted on: May 15, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap CTO Brad Schick has been invited to speak at the 2015 Seattle Technology Leadership Summit and the OpenStack Summit Vancouver on the following day! We sat down with Brad to learn more about hybrid apps, enterprise cloud adoption, Bimodal IT, and some of the exciting benefits that OpenStack and Skytap can provide our growing communities.

Will the Age of DevOps Impact Your Career? (Video)

  • Posted on: May 13, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
With more companies “doing” DevOps everyday, what impact will this have on the expectations for developers and IT Operations job applicants to possess when making a career move—or even to simply stay relevant in their current roles? Check out this recording of this week’s webinar with Intellyx analyst Jason Bloomberg, and Skytap VP of operations

Environments-as-a-Service “Essential” for Enterprise Dev & Test

  • Posted on: May 5, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
DevOps may still be in relative infancy, and current DevOps definitions may vary wildly, but one thing that all agree is essential to its success is automating manual steps throughout the SDLC that fail to add business value or software quality. We’ve been working with analyst Jason Bloomberg to help us paint a picture of

Skytap, Devops, and the British Invasion

  • Posted on: April 28, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
It’s official; Skytap has officially expanded into Europe! We’ve got outstanding boots on the ground with Chris Griggs, our new VP of Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Rick Cronin, our new Technical Director – both based in our new EMEA headquarters in London. Chris and Rick have extensive experience of having worked in

Upcoming Webinar: Career Relevance in the DevOps Age

  • Posted on: April 24, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
What are some of the titles you can look for if you want to “do” DevOps? If nobody can really say they’ve “been doing DevOps for years” what qualifications can employers look for? Are developers really suited to understand the operational needs and goals of the business, as some experts recommend? How do we get

Customer Advisory Board Reveals Virtual Training Wins in the Cloud

  • Posted on: April 21, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Throughout the year, we host a series of Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meetings, where we invite customers from Skytap’s varied use cases in order to not just give and take feedback from our customers, but so they can also provide it their peers in their respective industries. Today we’re speaking with Director of Product Management

The Impact of Trust on the Success and Failure of DevOps

  • Posted on: April 6, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
We sat down with Paul Farrall, Skytap’s new VP of Operations, and the president-elect of SIM Seattle, to discuss his successes and failures within his own DevOps initiatives. His experience helps prove the importance of trust between teams. SIM Seattle will host the 2015 Seattle Technology Leadership Summit on May 20th. Noel: Hi Paul! Let’s dive right in.

Feedback Culture Promotes Continuous UX-Rich Design

  • Posted on: April 2, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
With this week’s focus on how Skytap “does” design, we sat down with our principal UX architect to learn more about where the inspiration comes from to continuously not just keep up with, but exceed both business and customer demands across numerous platforms. Noel: Just to start off, if you’ll take a minute to introduce yourself,

The Joys of Continuous Disruption at Skytap

  • Posted on: March 27, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
One of our collective goals for 2015 is to really up our hiring and recruiting efforts in every department here at Skytap. As a colleague wrote earlier this year, this office is brimming with creative, contagious energy, and with a fresh round of funding to close out 2014, we’re scaling on a personnel level right