Tag: Development and Test

Achieve Agility Throughout the Development Lifecycle

  • Posted on: January 30, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Agile development is a goal that almost every development team shoots for these days. The more efficiently a team can deliver a product, the faster customers can gain access to it—and the faster the organization can generate revenue. But Agile development doesn’t just mean developers coding things faster. Every link along the delivery chain has

Accelerate BDT Workflows with the Skytap Automation Pack

  • Posted on: January 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Agile development and testing methodologies enable businesses to accelerate the delivery of new software products to market. While some cloud services have attempted to provide a foundation for these Agile environments, they often require sacrifices from the development and test teams. Many cloud providers operate at the basic infrastructure-as-a-service level, which typically requires an up-front

Skytap Adds Templates to Public Library to Support Cloudera and Hadoop

  • Posted on: January 16, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Pre-configured enterprise templates that support Cloudera® and Apache™ Hadoop® are now available in the Skytap Cloud public template library. With this release, our enterprise customers gain on-demand, self-service access to Cloudera’s open source distribution of Apache Hadoop, including the Cloudera Enterprise free edition, which can be used to deploy and manage physical or virtual clusters

Best Practices for Choosing a Cloud Service Provider

  • Posted on: December 12, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Today we’re revisiting our series on the topic of choosing a cloud service provider. Many cloud providers have a hands-off approach to partnering with customers—so Alex Burreson, our West Coast Sales Manager, has provided his list of key questions to ask and successful habits to employ when making this crucial decision for your organization. There

Adding Cloud Infrastructure to Your Automated Dev/Test Environment

  • Posted on: November 28, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
When most people think about using a public infrastructure cloud, it’s usually for an Internet-facing application like a company web server. And if you’ve ever considered a public infrastructure cloud for a training or dev/test environment, you might picture end users having to use some kind of remote access client, connecting via a client-based VPN,

New AutoNetworks and CloudControl Capabilities

  • Posted on: November 14, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Today we announced new AutoNetworks™ and CloudControl™ capabilities for enterprise hybrid clouds. Our multi-VPN capability extends software-defined networking features, and our new Scheduler automates actions on Skytap Cloud resources. AutoNetworks AutoNetworks is our unique software-defined networking capabilities for complex, multi-network, multi-machine environments. With multi-VPN capability, users can create multiple two-way secure connections between their Skytap

Time for Change: Replacing VMware Lab Manager

  • Posted on: November 6, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
In Part 1 of this series, May VMware Lab Manager Rest in Peace, I talked about how VMware has ‘end of lifed’ Lab Manager and will soon no longer support it. Knowing that, if you are using VMware Lab Manager, you may be actively researching your options for replacement. So let’s dive right in. VMware’s

New GitLab, Jenkins, and Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Server Templates

  • Posted on: October 26, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
This week, we added a few new templates to the Skytap Cloud public template library. Our first template is the Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Server x64 Linux OS. Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS is the latest “long-term support” version of Ubuntu. You can read all about it in the Ubuntu release notes. The template has been set up

The Cloud and Its Technological Spring

  • Posted on: October 15, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Back in April 2010, Steve Jobs wrote an open letter called Thoughts on Flash. From the time the original iPhone was released in 2007, Apple had been quiet as to why they decided to exclude Flash from the most technologically advanced phone on the planet. Partners and customers alike were up in arms because Flash

Skytap Team Returns from STARWEST

  • Posted on: October 5, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
The Skytap team just returned from STARWEST (Software Testing Analysis & Review West Conference)—the premier software testing conference that showcases the most up-to-date information, tools, and technologies available in the industry today. Over the course of the event, our team had several conversations with QA managers who expressed an interest in moving QA and development

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.

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