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Skytap Takes Additional Investment to Fuel Leadership in Development and Test Software Industry

  • Posted on: February 4, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap has experienced aggressive growth over the past several years, and 2013 was record breaking on many counts – including bringing in a new CEO, increasing headcount by 30%, numerous innovations to our dev/test SaaS offering, and expanding our international infrastructure footprint to meet the needs of our growing global customer base. In order to

How Do You Define Working Software?

  • Posted on: February 3, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
One of my favorite aspects of agile development is that there is no one path or course that developers must stick to in order for agile to work. Teams can use scrum, or not, choose the frequency at which they want to hold retrospectives, and iterate at a pace that works best for their project

Monthly Skytap Comic Strip Recap

  • Posted on: February 3, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
We’ve turned ourselves into quite the cartoonists, well, we’re not drawing the comics, we’re using Bitstrips (which are really fun, and pretty addictive) but at least we’re writing them—and they are all software development and testing related. Once a month, we’ll recap them here, or to see them as they’re released, follow us on Twitter!

Is Your Enterprise Experiencing Groundhog Day?

  • Posted on: January 30, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays the roll of Phil Connors, a regular Joe who wakes up each day to find out that he is reliving February 2nd all over again—and he’s the only one aware of the time loop. To take advantage of this phenomenon, knowing that there will be no long-term

Achieving Continuous Integration with Skytap and Jenkins

  • Posted on: January 27, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Enterprise businesses are developing software faster than ever to gain a competitive edge. To compete, application development teams must release better software faster. This means continuously integrating, testing and delivering new applications. To achieve continuous integration, many companies are leveraging the popular open source CI tool, Jenkins. Jenkins allows teams to define complex, automated software

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

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