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Skytap Team at Agile Dev East in Orlando

  • Posted on: November 4, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is a Gold Sponsor of the Agile Development East Conference in Orlando, Florida, this week. Drop by Booth 13 in the EXPO hall on the 7th or 8th to discuss how the cloud enables Agile development and see a demo of Skytap Cloud. On November 7 and 8, our Vice President of Products, Brian

Using Jenkins and GitLab Together in Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: November 2, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
​In my last blog post, Get the Most out of the GitLab Template in Skytap Cloud, we put together a new configuration that had a simple development machine along with the GitLab template for doing source control. This time we are going to expand that template to include doing automatic builds via Jenkins whenever someone

May VMware’s Lab Manager Rest in Peace

  • Posted on: October 31, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
In honor of the season, we thought we’d launch the first in a four-part series on the topic of Lab Manager replacement. We’ve invited guest blogger and VMware expert, David Davis, to share his thoughts on the product’s pending end of life. To quote David, “It’s a scary time to be a Lab Manager user.”

Get the Most out of the GitLab Template in Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: October 30, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Last week we delivered to you a GitLab Public Template built on our new Ubuntu 12.0.4.1 template. GitLab is a self-hosted Git management server (think GitHub, but hosted by you). It is a fast, secure, and stable solution with a management UI built on Ruby on Rails and Git functionality is provided by Gitolite. You

Predicting Technology: Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Trends for 2013

  • Posted on: October 26, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
‘Tis the season for peering into the crystal ball—and in the realm of industry—it’s time for the annual Gartner strategic technologies prediction. Earlier this week in a Gartner Symposium IT Expo session, analysts spelled out 10 strategic technology trends that they say will have significant impact on IT in 2013. It’s worth reviewing. If you

New GitLab, Jenkins, and Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Server Templates

  • Posted on: October 26, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
This week, we added a few new templates to the Skytap Cloud public template library. Our first template is the Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Server x64 Linux OS. Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS is the latest “long-term support” version of Ubuntu. You can read all about it in the Ubuntu release notes. The template has been set up

Virtual Training Success Stories in the Cloud

  • Posted on: October 24, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Last week in the blog piece Are We There Yet? Getting from Traditional to Virtual Training, I talked about how the on-demand nature of cloud computing has given instructors access to large, shared pools of virtual machines that can be accessed whenever and wherever they are required. Using self-service classroom management applications, instructors and lab

Brian White to Speak at Agile Dev East This Fall

  • Posted on: October 24, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Next month, our Vice President of Products, Brian White, will be at the Agile Dev East/Better Software Conference in Orlando, Florida. On November 7, Brian will talk about Cloud Computing: Powering the Future of Development and Testing. Developers and testers are under constant pressure to operate more efficiently, cut costs, and deliver on time. Without

New Exchange Server 2013 Preview Public Template

  • Posted on: October 18, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
This week we have added another multi-VM template to our library. It consists of a Microsoft Windows Active Directory Server and a Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Preview. This template will allow you to start using the latest version of Exchange in a matter of minutes. We have already prepared the Active Directory for you by

The Cloud and Its Technological Spring

  • Posted on: October 15, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Back in April 2010, Steve Jobs wrote an open letter called Thoughts on Flash. From the time the original iPhone was released in 2007, Apple had been quiet as to why they decided to exclude Flash from the most technologically advanced phone on the planet. Partners and customers alike were up in arms because Flash

Are We There Yet? Getting from Traditional to Virtual Training.

  • Posted on: October 9, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
As the challenges facing training organizations continue to grow, companies must find ways to provide software and technical training for employees and customers with significantly reduced budgets. To address these pressures, many training organizations have looked to online learning to solve cost and location challenges. However, implementing effective distance learning and reducing costs isn’t simple.

Skytap Team Returns from STARWEST

  • Posted on: October 5, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
The Skytap team just returned from STARWEST (Software Testing Analysis & Review West Conference)—the premier software testing conference that showcases the most up-to-date information, tools, and technologies available in the industry today. Over the course of the event, our team had several conversations with QA managers who expressed an interest in moving QA and development

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