Tag: Development and Test

Companies Enjoying Big Success with Hybrid Cloud

  • Posted on: April 22, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The previous three posts in this series covered Is this the Start of a Hybrid Cloud Revolution?, How to Build a Hybrid Cloud, and What Does a Hybrid Cloud Look Like?. Even if you have been reading the series from the start, you may still be skeptical of hybrid cloud because it appears ‘bleeding edge’

Skytap Experts to Speak at Spring Development and Testing Conferences

  • Posted on: April 10, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
This spring, Skytap experts will be discussing enterprise cloud computing trends and showcasing award-winning software at a number of industry events, including Camp IT, SharePointlandia, STAREAST, and IBM Innovate. We’ll provide live demonstrations of Skytap Cloud, including how our software is used by enterprise customers for development and testing, software demonstrations and evaluations, and virtual

Instant Remote Access to Skytap Virtual Machines

  • Posted on: April 1, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
One of the coolest and most powerful features of Skytap is the ability to create a virtual data center and start interacting with its virtual machines (VMs) in just a few clicks, all from the comfort of your favorite browser. It takes a lot of complicated technology to make this simplicity possible, and that’s what

What Does a Hybrid Cloud Look Like?

  • Posted on: March 26, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In the last two posts of this series, I posed the question Is this the Start of a Hybrid Cloud Revolution? and then described How to Build a Hybrid Cloud. Building off of that base knowledge, I’d like to demonstrate what exactly a hybrid cloud looks like. It’s one thing to see a simple hybrid

White Paper: Skytap Automation Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio TFS

  • Posted on: March 25, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Our newest white paper outlines how the Skytap Automation Pack for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server provides the integration between VS-TFS and Skytap Cloud. This integration enables development and test teams to use the same skills, workflows, and processes they already use with MS-TFS, while reaping the benefits that Skytap Cloud provides—provisioning complex environments, fast

Ask a Skytap Engineer: Nick Astete

  • Posted on: March 11, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
This month we’re kicking off our ‘Ask a Skytap Engineer’ series. A quick peek into the mind of the people who make our product what it is. No marketing, no filter (well, maybe a tiny filter). We’d like to give the community a chance to ask questions about cloud computing, hybrid cloud networks, Skytap Cloud

Getting an Integration Back on Track in 90 Seconds—Cloud Style

  • Posted on: March 4, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Building integration packs often requires that partners work closely to bring their products together. However, trying to get both parties together on a schedule can be tricky. Any hiccups along the way can quickly evolve from a few hours of lost time into a seriously long delay, which equals a ton of time in lost

Channel 9: ALM Summit Presentation on Agile Testing

  • Posted on: February 28, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
On January 31, I visited the ALM Summit and participated in the Agile Testing presentation given by Anutthara Bharadwaj. Her presentation addressed how Agile testing is becoming mainstream in software development across organizations of varying nature—and what happens when organizations with large nested teams; compliance and regulatory needs; multiple release cadences; and complex multi-tiered applications

Five Best Practices For Creating Cloud-Enabled Software Development

  • Posted on: February 26, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Hundreds of enterprise customers are leveraging cloud computing to better enable their IT to be Agile and power Agile software development teams. Companies that have successfully implemented cloud-enabled software development have subscribed to the following five best practices when creating Agile infrastructure: 1. Don’t change the Agile process to fit your legacy infrastructure; change your

New Windows 8 Enterprise x64 and Windows Server 2012 Templates

  • Posted on: February 11, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
We recently added a couple of new templates to the Skytap Cloud public template library. The first template is a new Windows 8 Enterprise x64. This is an x64 template to go along with our Windows 8 32-bit template. So while you may have been waiting around to see what’s what before trying Windows 8,

User Support Series: Skytap Cloud Basics

  • Posted on: February 6, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In the Skytap Cloud User Support series, we’re taking a close look at sections of the Skytap Help documentation. In this entry, we’ll cover Skytap Basics, which features an array of articles covering every main feature of Skytap Cloud. This will be the first stop for users looking for more information after going through Getting

Eating Our Own Dogfood The Skytap Development Environment

  • Posted on: February 4, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
If you’re a developer working on a scalable web application, you’ve had your share of frustrations maintaining a development stack. In a simple LAMP shop, you can get away with running an entire development stack on the same machine … until you need to test code involving load balancers, or test code that is expected