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The Augist 2008 release of Skytap Virtual Lab went live this morning! A list of feature enhancements present in the August 2008 Release is provided below – thanks for your input and requests, many of them got into this release! -Configuration and Virtual Machine Management 1. Automatic Configuration Timeout Automatically shut down all of the

Robert Scoble was in our offices recently. Check out the two videos he filmed on Skytap here and here: http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/demo-skytap-iphone-virtual-lab-testing-and-qa-enterprise-apps http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/seattles-skytap-lets-enterprises-remotely-manage-your-datacenter

William Fellows, a Principal Analyst, at 451 Group has just published a report on Cloud Computing. It’s one of the better reports I’ve seen and well worth a read (you can purchase it here). William defines clouds as having the following attributes: Clouds enforce the discipline of a retail model Clouds have APIs. If there

Here on the Skytap engineering team, we recently switched to a monthly release cycle. Our aim is to iterate quickly, release every month, and loop back with customers to make sure we continue to delight them. To illustrate the benefits of such a rapid cycle, I’d like to make an aquatic analogy: Imagine a muddy

Exciting news – we announced today at Structure 08 a technology partnership to make Cohesive’s Elastic Servers available in Skytap’s Virtual Lab platform! The combined solution will provide application development and test teams the capability to dynamically assemble and deploy custom application stacks to our virtual test cloud. For the details, see the press release.

So, what are the benefits of cloud computing and why are organizations adopting these services? First and foremost for many is potential cost reduction and amortization. With a cloud computing solution, the customer does not have a big upfront capital expenditure for hardware, software licenses and implementation services. Nor do customers have the ongoing expense

Better Software Conference and Expo, The Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevada Our CTO, John Janakiraman, is delivering a session tomorrow on the‘Eight Steps to a Virtualized Test Environment’. If you are at the conference, be sure to attend – it’s session W21 at 2.45pm.

There’s been a lot of hype around the need for “Green IT” and how computing usage affects the environment. The 451 Group published an excellent report summarizing how IT impacts the environment and actually shows that IT’s greenhouse-gas contributions are relatively small when compared with other sources. However, its authors firmly believe that IT should

Virtualization.info posted an article today showing the 5 stages of virtualization adoption predicted by VMware. They call out Skytap and Desktone as two leading companies that are already delivering stage 5 capabilities