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The Cloud Foundry Open Source Project and Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: November 8, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Cloud Foundry recently released a great piece of video from this year’s VMworld. In it, Andy Piper from the VMware Cloud Foundry Developer Relations Team talks with George Stamos, Cloud Solutions Architect from Skytap. They discuss one of our recent product announcements: A virtual private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that features the ability to spin up

Using Cloud Foundry with GitLab and Jenkins

  • Posted on: November 8, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
In my last two blog posts, I walked users through some things they can accomplish with Jenkins, Gitlab, and Skytap Cloud. Those things included: Creating a new configuration with GitLab for source control (Get the Most out of the Gitlab Template in Skytap Cloud) Adding Jenkins to this configuration and tying them together to do

Time for Change: Replacing VMware Lab Manager

  • Posted on: November 6, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
In Part 1 of this series, May VMware Lab Manager Rest in Peace, I talked about how VMware has ‘end of lifed’ Lab Manager and will soon no longer support it. Knowing that, if you are using VMware Lab Manager, you may be actively researching your options for replacement. So let’s dive right in. VMware’s

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

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