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User Support Series: The Glossary

  • Posted on: March 21, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In this edition of the User Support Series, we’ll review the Glossary section of the Skytap Cloud Help documentation. This section defines common terms you’ll encounter when using Skytap Cloud. Ever wonder what Samba was, or why a Brazilian dance was showing up in the middle of software help? Have you been confused by acronyms

Security and Compliance: Does Your Cloud Provider Have Your Back?

  • Posted on: March 19, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In a recent article for CIO entitled, Ignore Cloud Security Assessment at Your Own Risk, John Moore asks who should be on the hook for assessing and validating cloud security, and how the sometimes-complicated world of cloud computing makes that question tricky to answer. From the article: “SaaS apps cover a lot of ground these

How to Build a Hybrid Cloud

  • Posted on: March 18, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In my last post, Is this the Start of a Hybrid Cloud Revolution? I talked about how hybrid cloud has advanced and how I believe it is on the verge of mass adoption by enterprises around the world. ​ At too many companies, new technology is adopted not because IT planned it or wanted it,

SharePoint Development and Testing at SPTechCon San Francisco

  • Posted on: March 12, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​The Skytap team recently returned from SPTechCon in San Francisco—the conference for SharePoint administrators, IT professionals, business users, and developers who want to take advantage of technical classes, tutorials, and discussions with experts in the field. Several people who visited our booth and wanted to understand the ways in which Skytap Cloud could help accelerate

Ask a Skytap Engineer: Nick Astete

  • Posted on: March 11, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
This month we’re kicking off our ‘Ask a Skytap Engineer’ series. A quick peek into the mind of the people who make our product what it is. No marketing, no filter (well, maybe a tiny filter). We’d like to give the community a chance to ask questions about cloud computing, hybrid cloud networks, Skytap Cloud

Would You Trust Your IT Operations To An Outsider?

  • Posted on: March 7, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​The idea of handing part of your IT operations over to an outside agency can be unnerving. And when you partner with a cloud services provider, you are entrusting a portion of your business to a third party—essentially, an outsider. The good news is that enterprises do it every day—and with very real benefits, like

Building Trust Between Cloud Providers and Consumers

  • Posted on: March 5, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In a recent article for NetworkWorld entitled Building Trust Between Cloud Providers and Consumers, I talked about the need for clients and vendors to view each other as trusted partners if they are to successfully design and deploy solutions to complex technology problems. I also focused on the value of transparency when building cooperative partnerships,

Getting an Integration Back on Track in 90 Seconds—Cloud Style

  • Posted on: March 4, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Building integration packs often requires that partners work closely to bring their products together. However, trying to get both parties together on a schedule can be tricky. Any hiccups along the way can quickly evolve from a few hours of lost time into a seriously long delay, which equals a ton of time in lost

Skytap Team Heading to SharePoint TechCon in San Francisco

  • Posted on: March 4, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The Skytap team is heading to SPTechCon in San Francisco March 5 and 6. The conference will be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. About the event: The SharePoint Technology Conference provides technical classes and tutorials for SharePoint administrators, IT professionals, business users, and developers. Attendees learn from the best SharePoint experts, including

Dr. Dobb’s Webinar – Cloud-Enabled ALM: Continuous Integration and Automated Testing

  • Posted on: March 1, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Enterprises today are looking for ways to accelerate their rate of innovation, increase revenues, and lower the costs of software development and delivery. Agile development and testing methodologies are increasingly being adopted as a central means to accelerate the delivery of new software products to market. To support this, many application lifecycle management (ALM) products

Channel 9: ALM Summit Presentation on Agile Testing

  • Posted on: February 28, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
On January 31, I visited the ALM Summit and participated in the Agile Testing presentation given by Anutthara Bharadwaj. Her presentation addressed how Agile testing is becoming mainstream in software development across organizations of varying nature—and what happens when organizations with large nested teams; compliance and regulatory needs; multiple release cadences; and complex multi-tiered applications

Five Best Practices For Creating Cloud-Enabled Software Development

  • Posted on: February 26, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Hundreds of enterprise customers are leveraging cloud computing to better enable their IT to be Agile and power Agile software development teams. Companies that have successfully implemented cloud-enabled software development have subscribed to the following five best practices when creating Agile infrastructure: 1. Don’t change the Agile process to fit your legacy infrastructure; change your

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