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New Windows 8 Enterprise x64 and Windows Server 2012 Templates

  • Posted on: February 11, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
We recently added a couple of new templates to the Skytap Cloud public template library. The first template is a new Windows 8 Enterprise x64. This is an x64 template to go along with our Windows 8 32-bit template. So while you may have been waiting around to see what’s what before trying Windows 8,

User Support Series: Skytap Cloud Basics

  • Posted on: February 6, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In the Skytap Cloud User Support series, we’re taking a close look at sections of the Skytap Help documentation. In this entry, we’ll cover Skytap Basics, which features an array of articles covering every main feature of Skytap Cloud. This will be the first stop for users looking for more information after going through Getting

Eating Our Own Dogfood The Skytap Development Environment

  • Posted on: February 4, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
If you’re a developer working on a scalable web application, you’ve had your share of frustrations maintaining a development stack. In a simple LAMP shop, you can get away with running an entire development stack on the same machine … until you need to test code involving load balancers, or test code that is expected

Achieve Agility Throughout the Development Lifecycle

  • Posted on: January 30, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Agile development is a goal that almost every development team shoots for these days. The more efficiently a team can deliver a product, the faster customers can gain access to it—and the faster the organization can generate revenue. But Agile development doesn’t just mean developers coding things faster. Every link along the delivery chain has

ALM Summit 3 – Expertise Worth Sharing

  • Posted on: January 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
This year’s ALM Summit runs January 29 to 31, and features keynotes and sessions by Microsoft executive and industry experts, as well as three focused breakout tracks: ALM Leadership, Agile Development, and new this year DevOps and Testing. Also returning is an update to last year’s popular full-time Hands-On Lab featuring self-guided tutorials on Team

Accelerate BDT Workflows with the Skytap Automation Pack

  • Posted on: January 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Agile development and testing methodologies enable businesses to accelerate the delivery of new software products to market. While some cloud services have attempted to provide a foundation for these Agile environments, they often require sacrifices from the development and test teams. Many cloud providers operate at the basic infrastructure-as-a-service level, which typically requires an up-front

The Impact of the Cloud on Virtual Training

  • Posted on: January 28, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Recently on TrainingIndustry.com, I talked about trends in enterprise training. Not only is training moving to the cloud, but the ideas of on-demand and automation have taken on whole new meanings. Enterprises are discovering that a cloud-based, virtual training solution doesn’t just save ample amounts of time, it can even generate revenue. From the article:

Your Guide to Replacing VMware Lab Manager

  • Posted on: January 21, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In the wake of VMware’s decision to discontinue vCenter Lab Manager, our new guide examines the benefits and considerations of various replacement strategies. The guide mentions the risks involved with continuing to use unsupported software, and details how VMware’s recommended replacement, vCloud Director, lacks much of the power and utility of Lab Manager. The guide

Create a Cloudera + Hadoop Cluster in Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: January 18, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
As you’ve likely heard, Skytap Cloud now offers a set of pre-configured templates that support Cloudera® and Apache™ Hadoop®. So for anyone who wants to try out the cluster—from small to large—it can now be easily accomplished in Skytap Cloud. The goal of this tutorial will be to spin up a 10-node cluster in Skytap

Tenable Scales its Virtual Training with Cloud Automation, Part 2

  • Posted on: January 17, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In Part 1 of the Tenable case study, we learned that as the training demand at Tenable Network Security grew rapidly, IT could no longer effectively service the Training Organization, so the business needed to look for alternatives. After exploring its options, Tenable chose to support its training classes using Skytap Cloud. The result is

Skytap Adds Templates to Public Library to Support Cloudera and Hadoop

  • Posted on: January 16, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Pre-configured enterprise templates that support Cloudera® and Apache™ Hadoop® are now available in the Skytap Cloud public template library. With this release, our enterprise customers gain on-demand, self-service access to Cloudera’s open source distribution of Apache Hadoop, including the Cloudera Enterprise free edition, which can be used to deploy and manage physical or virtual clusters

Tenable Scales its Virtual Training with Cloud Automation, Part 1

  • Posted on: January 15, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Founded in 2002, Tenable Network Security developed its Unified Security Monitoring platform based on the company’s award-winning Nessus scanner for securing enterprise networks worldwide. Nessus is the most widely distributed and utilized vulnerability scanner in the world. The company makes Nessus available to the general public as a free download and provides updates for the

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