Tag: Development and Test

Big Data: Extracting Simplicity From the Complex

  • Posted on: June 11, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Scientific researchers, financial analysts, and pharmaceutical firms have long-used incredibly large datasets to answer incredibly complex questions. Large datasets, especially when analyzed in tandem with other sets, can reveal patterns and relationships that would otherwise remain hidden. In this sense, big data analysis is similar to a microscope or telescope. Big data makes visible those

Dynamic Network Management

  • Posted on: June 6, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​The cloud has enabled developers and testers to deploy complex computing environments quickly and, perhaps most importantly, without the need to ask IT to set up new servers, switches, and routers. But, while the self-service aspect of cloud computing simplifies resource acquisition it also introduces new challenges. The explosion of information technology has led to

NetworkWorld Names Skytap Automation Pack for IBM RTC as Product of the Week

  • Posted on: June 4, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
NetworkWorld has named Skytap Automation Pack for IBM Rational Team Concert among its Products of the Week for June 3, 2013. Skytap Automation Pack is software that installs alongside the IBM Jazz Team Server and continuously monitors the build request queue. Incoming build requests trigger an automated process that creates complete build environments in Skytap

The Skytap Automation Pack for Rational Team Concert

  • Posted on: May 30, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Today we announced the availability of the Skytap Automation Pack for Rational Team Concert. The Skytap Automation Pack has passed the Ready for Rational validation requirements providing assurance that the Skytap Automation Pack is engineered to fit smoothly into Rational Team Concert environments. This integration between Skytap Cloud and Rational Team Concert enables IT operations

IBM Innovate 2013: The IBM Technical Summit

  • Posted on: May 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
IBM Innovate 2013 runs next week from June 2 through 6 in Orlando. Join Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, and TV producer and tech host Katie Linendoll to learn how you can stay ahead in: The major trends revolutionizing system and software delivery across the DevOps lifecycle: Cloud, Mobile, Social,

PMTUD Black Holes: Causing a Subtle Set of Issues in Hybrid Clouds

  • Posted on: May 23, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​I recently had a piece published in the Cloud Computing Journal. In it, I talked about how a PMTUD black hole can cause a particularly subtle set of issues in hybrid cloud-based environments where the cloud resources are connected to a corporate office or other datacenter via IPSec tunnels. PMTUD black holes basically cause certain

SharePoint in the Cloud: Environment Management and Complex Application Integration

  • Posted on: May 21, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
While many of the development challenges faced early in a SharePoint project are not unique to SharePoint, they can be exacerbated due to the breadth, number of options, and interaction points presented to users by the application. And the situation can present an even greater challenge to consultancies and service providers as they must be

Dev/Test: A 5-Step Process for Tuning out the Cloud Hype

  • Posted on: May 16, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Over the past few years it would have been hard to miss the slow and systematic outsourcing of certain parts of corporate IT. The primary solution has been cloud computing—which, of course, means the market is flush with cloud providers—and a lot of hype. With so many options to choose from, it becomes even more

WEBINAR Cloud-enabled ALM: CI and Automated Testing

  • Posted on: May 14, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Join us Tuesday, May 28, at 11:00 am PT (2:00 pm ET) for Cloud Enabled ALM: Continuous Integration & Automated Testing. Enterprises today are looking for ways to accelerate their rate of innovation, increase revenues, and lower the costs of software development and delivery. Agile development and testing methodologies are increasingly being adopted as a

Agile Development Teams: An Infrastructure Checklist

  • Posted on: May 7, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The goal of agile development is to shift from a long and inflexible development process to a shorter, more collaborative process that enables the shipping of software more frequently. To truly be successful, agile development teams need the following from their development and test lab infrastructure: Self-service Provisioning and On-Demand Scalability Software development teams need

Q & A at STAREAST in Florida

  • Posted on: May 6, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The Skytap team had a great time in Orlando this past week at STAREAST. We had a chance to meet and speak with hundreds of professionals about software testing, tools, and technology. Over the two-day EXPO, we talked a lot about how Skytap helps with testing and application lifecycle management. Here are highlights from two

Think You Can’t Control the Cloud? Think Again.

  • Posted on: May 2, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In a recent article for ReadWriteWeb, Matt Asay talks about the very real need for IT to have security and control without becoming a bottleneck. From the article: It’s hard to believe, but just 10 years ago open source was considered “communist,” an anti-American cancer and the terror of corporate legal departments everywhere. Now, as