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What’s Really Driving the Consumerization of IT?

  • Posted on: January 22, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
We hear all the time about the consumerization of IT. It almost gets as much prime headline real estate as big data, but now that we’ve all started accepting that consumerization is here—what are we going to do with it? Hopefully your answer revolves around expanding and growing your business, because that’s what you should

What Are NoSQL Databases?

  • Posted on: January 20, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
SQL databases, in all their varieties, have served as the backbone of critical business applications for nearly three decades. SQL has provided application developers with a robust platform to store and retrieve data, and perhaps most importantly, relate data across tables through a series of joins. Yet, despite the tremendous value provided to application developers

How CI Is Coming to Mean “Continuous Innovation” in the Enterprise

  • Posted on: January 15, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Asking the question, “What is enterprise software?” or, “What is enterprise software designed to do?” will get you an infinite number of answers. I know, because I’ve asked this question again and again. But whether the answer is “to perform business functions,” “solve major problems,” or my favorite answer, “to provide value to our customers,”

[Webinar]: Continuous Integration with Skytap and Jenkins

  • Posted on: January 13, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
One of the biggest challenges development and test teams face today is environment management for continuous integration purposes. Deploying, maintaining, and refreshing development environments for complex multi-tiered applications is a time-consuming and laborious process. The Skytap CI plugin for Jenkins provides developers and testers with an end-to-end solution to accelerate agile software development. By utilizing

CES 2014 Sees Increased Interest in the Enterprise

  • Posted on: January 10, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
There was a time when CES was essentially only a toy store. That may sound absurd, but it’s true. The TVs, phones, video game systems, and computers were for tech-heads who had to have the latest devices…in their homes. But with the rampant rise of consumerization, and the complete inability for businesses, especially in the

The Expectations of the Enterprise 2.0: An Interview with Matt McIlwain

  • Posted on: January 9, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain discusses what the enterprise 2.0 means, and what brought us to this point in software development. Learn how BYOD policies, empowerment, and other innovative strategies all contribute to the apps we can’t live without. Noel: Hello, this is Noel Wurst with Skytap and I am speaking Matt McIlwain who is

Skytap CTO named Startup Technology Leadership Star

  • Posted on: January 8, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
We don’t like to get too into the habit of patting ourselves on the back, so it’s always nice when someone else does it for you. The Puget Sound Business Journal recently named Skytap CTO and VP of Engineering Brad Schick as the winner of their 2013 Startup Technology Leadership Star award. PSBJ Managing Editor

What Makes an Enterprise Empowered?

  • Posted on: January 3, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
As a dictionary junkie, I’m constantly looking up definitions, and more times than not, I’m satisfied with what Webster, Google, or even Wikipedia tells me is the meaning of something. But the times I’m left wanting more, I spend hours, if not days, wondering what would’ve been better, and how would I have defined that

2014 Enterprise Software and Application Predictions

  • Posted on: December 30, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The best part about waiting until the last minute to post your tech predictions for the coming year isn’t so that you can copy what your favorite software pundits are clamoring for, it’s so you can validate your list as being necessary, and a true beacon amidst the countless other lists that are being posted

How Skytap’s Customers Used the Cloud in 2013

  • Posted on: December 26, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Between the keynotes, the track sessions, and the conversations on the expo floor, Amazon AWS re:Invent 2013 was a ton of information to take in over the course of a couple of days. Amidst all the goings-on, we got the opportunity to sit down with three of Skytap’s customers to learn a little more about

Training in the Cloud: An Interview with Lee Orrick

  • Posted on: December 26, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Lee Orrick from F5 sits down to discuss how F5 made the decision to move their training to the cloud, in order to relieve some of the pain points—cost, time away from work, shipping of hardware around the world—from their business. Learn how F5 ensured the cloud would provide the legal coverage, licensing issues, and

Easier Scaling in the Cloud: An Interview with Ryan Carey

  • Posted on: December 20, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
DataXu software engineer Ryan Carey sits down to explain how moving his company’s dev/test environments to the cloud enabled his company to scale at the speed they needed by using on-demand resources. Noel Wurst: Hello. My name is Noel Wurst. I am with Skytap. Today I am sitting here with Ryan Carey from DataXu. DataXu