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Taking the Cloud from Wall Street to Main Street

  • Posted on: October 2, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
In the recent article Taking the Cloud from Wall Street to Main Street, I discussed how cloud technologies that were once only accessible to high tech Wall Street firms can now be leveraged by the majority of enterprises to manage development, testing, and production environments. The following is an excerpt from the article: “In 2011,

New Skytap Cloud SharePoint 2013 Template

  • Posted on: October 1, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
By now you’ve likely heard that we have a new Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Preview template. If you’re a seasoned SharePoint user, you’ll probably just jump in and get to work, or even cruise over to the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog for examples of some cool things you can do with SharePoint 2013 Preview. For

New SharePoint and CentOS 6.3 Public Templates Launched in Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: September 26, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
This week, we added two new templates to the Skytap Cloud public template library. Our first template is the CentOS 6.3 x64 OS. CentOS 6.3 is the latest version, and you can read all about it in the CentOS release notes. The template has been set up for a nice out-of-the-box experience and will prompt

Do VMware’s Hands-on Labs Spell the End of Home Labs?

  • Posted on: September 24, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Last week, VMware expert Edward Grigson produced a blog entitled, Online virtualisation labs come of age that poses the question: Will VMware’s Hands-on Labs spell the end of home labs? In his piece he discusses the fact that, until recently, there were no public cloud services that allowed users to experiment with the hypervisor layer.

Brett Goodwin to Speak at Camp IT – Cloud Computing Strategies

  • Posted on: September 21, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
On September 24, Brett Goodwin, our Vice President of Marketing & Business Development, will speak a Camp IT in Chicago. The focus of the conference is Cloud Computing Strategies, and Brett’s topic will be: Hybrid Cloud: How to Build and Integrate the Best of Both Worlds. The following is a summary of Brett’s presentation: After

Skytap Thought Leaders to Speak at Upcoming Fall Technology Events

  • Posted on: September 20, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
This fall, Skytap leadership will be traveling to several technology events to speak about industry trends, hybrid and public cloud solutions, and best practices for Agile development and testing. In September, Brett Goodwin, our Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, will be at Camp IT: Cloud Computing Strategies to present Hybrid Cloud: How to

OSIsoft Extends IT Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud

  • Posted on: September 14, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Development, test, and QA teams are under constant pressure to develop, test, and deploy software applications faster. And there are myriad reasons for businesses to encourage and support this continuous process improvement, as teams that achieve these efficiencies will end up with a competitive edge. the industry standard in enterprise infrastructure, OSIsoft—makers of the PI

Skytap Named Best of VMworld Award Winner for Third Consecutive Year

  • Posted on: September 12, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
​If you were tuned in to VMworld, you may have already heard that Skytap was selected by TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization as a “Best of VMworld 2012” award finalist in the public and hybrid cloud computing technologies category–making it the third consecutive year we’ve been recognized at the VMworld event. We were selected based on recent product

Skytap Named Best of VMworld Award Winner for Third Consecutive Year

  • Posted on: September 12, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
​If you were tuned in to VMworld, you may have already heard that Skytap was selected by TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization as a “Best of VMworld 2012” award finalist in the public and hybrid cloud computing technologies category–making it the third consecutive year we’ve been recognized at the VMworld event. We were selected based on recent product

Security and Compliance in the Cloud Matters

  • Posted on: September 10, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
You don’t have to search at length to find articles that highlight conferences, panel discussions, and reports on the topic of cloud security. The topic is everywhere for a reason—security and compliance in the cloud matters. And at Skytap, we believe in making our security and compliance measures transparent to our existing customers, and to

Can DevOps Turn IT into a Strategic Weapon?

  • Posted on: September 6, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Development, IT Operations, and business stakeholders who have teamed up to build a strong DevOps culture may be wondering if there is room to take things to the next level. Is it possible to use the DevOps methodology to build a competitive advantage? Damon Edwards of dev2ops.org says yes. Yesterday, Damon produced an interesting piece

VMworld: The Wrap-up

  • Posted on: August 31, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
VMworld wrapped up yesterday, August 30, with a final day of hands-on labs and breakout sessions. Over the course of five days, some 20,000 attendees took advantage of the opportunity for education, discourse, and networking in IT infrastructure, applications, and operations. Our team at the Solutions Exchange spoke to hundreds of IT professionals–discussing new tech

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