Tag: Events

Brian White to Speak at Agile Dev East This Fall

  • Posted on: October 24, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Next month, our Vice President of Products, Brian White, will be at the Agile Dev East/Better Software Conference in Orlando, Florida. On November 7, Brian will talk about Cloud Computing: Powering the Future of Development and Testing. Developers and testers are under constant pressure to operate more efficiently, cut costs, and deliver on time. Without

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

Brett Goodwin to Speak at Camp IT – Cloud Computing Strategies

  • Posted on: September 21, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
On September 24, Brett Goodwin, our Vice President of Marketing & Business Development, will speak a Camp IT in Chicago. The focus of the conference is Cloud Computing Strategies, and Brett’s topic will be: Hybrid Cloud: How to Build and Integrate the Best of Both Worlds. The following is a summary of Brett’s presentation: After

Skytap Thought Leaders to Speak at Upcoming Fall Technology Events

  • Posted on: September 20, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
This fall, Skytap leadership will be traveling to several technology events to speak about industry trends, hybrid and public cloud solutions, and best practices for Agile development and testing. In September, Brett Goodwin, our Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, will be at Camp IT: Cloud Computing Strategies to present Hybrid Cloud: How to

VMworld: The Wrap-up

  • Posted on: August 31, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
VMworld wrapped up yesterday, August 30, with a final day of hands-on labs and breakout sessions. Over the course of five days, some 20,000 attendees took advantage of the opportunity for education, discourse, and networking in IT infrastructure, applications, and operations. Our team at the Solutions Exchange spoke to hundreds of IT professionals–discussing new tech

Announcements, Interviews, and Tchotchkes at VMworld 2012

  • Posted on: August 28, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
VMworld 2012 ramped up Sunday afternoon with registration, then the Hands-on Labs (HOL) got underway. As attendees landed in San Francisco throughout the day, the conversations turned to the excellent weather, dinner plans, and evening festivities where colleagues could catch up and talk tech. The VMworld Twitterverse was on fire. But even before the welcome

A Look at the Expert Predictions for VMworld 2012

  • Posted on: August 24, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
As we’re all gearing up for VMworld, there are some interesting conversations going on–and a lot of buzz about what people think is going to happen this year. The VAR Guy was able to boil down his predictions to five major themes in his article VMworld 2012 Preview: 5 VMware Private, Public Cloud Trends: The

Camp IT: July 12 – Infrastructure, Operations, and Management

  • Posted on: July 11, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Skytap, will be speaking at Camp IT in Chicago on Thursday, July 12. The event takes place at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont–two miles from Chicago O’Hare. The one-day conference is attended by IT executives, management, and staff who want to understand new

Trek and Skytap Ride Together on the Trail of Innovation

  • Posted on: July 11, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Breakthrough innovation can come from anywhere, at any time, in any place. Today, I was in just one of those places. Waterloo, Wisconsin–home of Skytap Cloud customer Trek Bicycles. Founded in 1976, at a time when it was believed that bicycle manufacturing had moved out of the U.S. for good–in an old red barn, with

GigaOM Structure in San Francisco, June 20 and 21

  • Posted on: June 20, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is checking out GigaOM Structure today at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF. About the event: The 5th annual Structure conference brings together the leaders innovating, shaping and defining the ongoing evolution in the technology industry – cloud computing. The shift to the cloud isn’t just a change in the way IT is

Everything Dev/Test at Agile West

  • Posted on: June 19, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
We’re back from two days at the Agile Development West Conference, and we learned some interesting things. We spoke to many developers, test engineers, IT, and architects about development and testing–and the main pain point we heard over and over again is how long it takes to provision an environment on-premise. That is definitely an

See You at Agile Development West: June 13 and 14

  • Posted on: June 12, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is a proud gold sponsor of Agile Development Conference West 2012–six days of interaction between industry experts and peers in the agile community, with learning sessions that help IT professionals make a powerful impact in their job roles and organizations. About the event: Discover Agile Development Conference West 2012 and take back the latest