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​Having personally helped hundreds of companies evaluate Skytap as a virtual training cloud provider, I wanted to pass along my top 3 habits for running a successful cloud trial. If you worked through the suggestions in my previous blog piece: Questions to Ask When Vetting a Cloud Service Provider, you will have a foundation to

​VMworld 2012 is being held in San Francisco at the Moscone Center from August 26 to 30. The event is billed as an opportunity for education, collaboration, and networking — and is an excellent resource for companies who need to spend less time and money supporting underlying IT infrastructure and more time on areas that

​Today, we are proud to announce that over 200 enterprise customers, including Trek Bicycles, Trend Micro, and WorkWise, are using our intuitive public and hybrid cloud solutions for development and testing, virtual technical training, and software demonstrations. Customers turn to Skytap Cloud for a fast, easy, and secure way to move dynamic workloads to the

​Agile 2012 is the largest conference where developers, managers, and executives can experience the full array of Agile development methodologies, technologies and tools, leadership principles, and management philosophies and processes. Attendees can select from over 200 talks, tutorials, and workshops, then return home with transformative new skills, ideas and perspectives that can be put into

In his article Cloud computing: 10 ways it will change by 2020, Jack Clark of ZDnet.com explores the issues, challenges, and technologies that he predicts will frustrate and inspire those working with the cloud in 2020. Clark’s list is as follows–and he elaborates on each:     1.    Software floats away from hardware     2.    Modular

Katherine Noyes recently wrote for Linux.com on the topic of 5 Things to Make the Hybrid Cloud Enterprise-Ready. In her article, she discusses data that shows how a number of factors are just now beginning to fall into place that will propel the adoption of the hybrid cloud model. From her article: So, what are

​Today, Skytap is proud to announce a success story from our partnership with Fulcrum Technologies™–the leader in enterprise infrastructure management technology. Fulcrum Technologies is doubling its user-base this year, and they faced the immediate challenge of training more than 2,500 new users of their CATS enterprise asset management software across the continental U.S., for one

​Having personally helped hundreds of companies evaluate Skytap for software demo and evaluations, I wanted to pass on my top 3 successful habits for running a cloud trial. If you worked through the suggestions in my prior blog piece Five Successful Habits for Selecting a Cloud Provider, you should have a foundation to build upon

​ In his Forbes article, 3 Keys to Startup Success, Aaron Schwartz made an interesting observation about working at a startup. He noted that in addition to technical skill, there are some necessary traits a person will need to succeed in this type of environment: “I think that there are three: hustle, follow-through and curiosity.” Those

When VMware announced its decision to discontinue additional major releases of vCenter Lab Manager in 2013, it left organizations that are currently running it at a crossroads. And based on the myriad posts and discussions on tech blogs over the past year, it’s clear that many users aren’t necessarily convinced that vCloud Director is the de