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October’s Upcoming Partner Happy Hours Go Coast to Coast!

  • Posted on: October 1, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​If you’re lucky enough to live in a city or state that allows “happy hour” (you’d be surprised how many states have banned it!) hopefully from time to time you’re able to pop into a local establishment to kick off the weekend a little early, or even continue to work or brainstorm in perhaps a

Creating an Autoconfiguring IBM UrbanCode Deploy Agent in Skytap

  • Posted on: September 25, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap recently announced the availability of the Skytap Automation Pack for IBM UrbanCode Deploy. You can read about it in this Skytap blog post from earlier this year. You’ll recall that this plugin adds the following functionality into the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Application Process web UI to create and manipulate templates and configurations in Skytap:

Just Landed: Virtual and Cloud-based Labs

  • Posted on: September 24, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​Today, voke, inc. officially announced the availability of their latest publication, titled, Market Snapshot TM Report: Virtual and Cloud-based Labs. The report was written by voke founders Theresa Lanowitz and Lisa Dronzek, and it features the results of a recent survey they conducted on the concept of “lifecycle virtualization.” LV is centered around the idea

How to Automate Your Environment Provisioning for Mobile App Development

  • Posted on: September 24, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​Last week, we co-hosted another great webinar with Orasi, one of our outstanding TapIn Partners, and we’re thrilled to now offer this on-demand to anyone who missed it, or even those who attended but who may want to share it with others! We focused on showing how to provide more complete test coverage for mobile

Book Review: The Phoenix Project – Chasing the DevOps Whale

  • Posted on: September 18, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​This technical, but easy-reading story will likely become required reading for everyone here at Skytap. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps and Helping Your Business Win (Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford, IT Revolution Press, 2013) ties one man’s journey toward DevOps to the significant innovations made in factory optimization and lean

Why Aren’t We Letting Software Testers Test?

  • Posted on: September 17, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​What do software testers want to do most while at work? What do software testers enjoy most about their job? What do many testers struggle to find the time to do each and every day? What’s absolutely critical to the success of your enterprise? There’s one simple answer to these questions, and it might surprise

Mobile Dev and Environments-as-a-Service Featured in Upcoming Webinars

  • Posted on: September 15, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​We have two webinars coming up in the next few weeks that we wanted to invite everyone to. If you can’t attend live, make sure to still register, as we will be sending out the recording and slides afterwards to all registrants. See you online! Automate Your Environment Provisioning for Mobile App Development Wednesday, September

Using the Mesosphere Technology Stack in Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: September 12, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap recently announced the availability of the Mesosphere Technology Stack template in the Skytap Public Template Library. The Mesosphere Technology Stack is a framework for developers and system admins to build out self-healing, fault-tolerant and scalable solutions on top of Apache Mesos.  You can find out more about Mesosphere at http://mesosphere.io. This template allows you

New Research Reveals the True Impact of Lifecycle Virtualization

  • Posted on: September 10, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​Independent analyst firm, voke, inc., recently conducted extensive research around the concept of “lifecycle virtualization” and the results of their efforts are incredibly revealing on two levels. On one hand you have the impressive benefits and improvements across the entire SDLC, detailed by those who have implemented lifecycle virtualization, and on the other—the completely devastating

Using Docker in Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: September 5, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap recently announced the availability of a Docker template in the Skytap Cloud Public Template Library.  Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. This new template allows you to easily experiment with or deploy Docker-based containers within Skytap Cloud. To illustrate this, we’ll do the following:

Notes from VMWorld 2014: Shifting the Focus to Development and Test

  • Posted on: August 27, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
A consistent theme here at VMworld 2014 has been development and testing. Specifically, how IT operations can deliver the development, test, continuous integration, staging, and ultimately production environments that software development and QA teams rely on. VMware announced tight integration with OpenStack in the hopes of, at least partly, helping their customers better meet the

I Am a Specialized Automation Tester—Hold on, Where Do I Draw a Balance?

  • Posted on: August 27, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
The article below was originally published by Rajini Padmanaban on the fantastic QAInfoTech blog. ​In any discipline, a specialization is most often considered valuable and has a premier status attached to it when compared to a generalized body of knowledge. For example, a cardiologist has a more specified focus than a general physician, an architect

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