Category: Company News

NetworkWorld Hot Product: Skytap Virtual Private PaaS with Cloud Foundry v2

  • Posted on: August 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​This week during VMworld we saw the best and brightest in virtualization and cloud computing descend on the city of San Francisco. It was a mix of IT technical professionals and IT business decision-makers from organizations of all sizes, representing a wide range of industries. On the first day of the conference, NetworkWorld released its

A New CEO’s Perspective on the Skytap Community

  • Posted on: August 26, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
My name is Thor Culverhouse and on July 1 was appointed CEO of Skytap. While this is my first contribution to the Skytap Blog, I’m a regular reader and I’m anxious to learn more about the Skytap community. Skytap already has over 250 enterprise and mid-market customers, and the Skytap Blog is a helpful forum

Video: Life at Skytap

  • Posted on: August 23, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
At Skytap, we’re proud of our product, our people, and our culture. We solve complex problems for enterprise customers and have fun doing it. And while we’re an emerging company, we’ll never let go of the energy, inspiration, and dedication from our startup days—that culture is here to stay. Here’s what our Chief Technology Officer

Using the Skytap Virtual Machine Metadata Service

  • Posted on: August 19, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
On August 6, 2013, Skytap announced the availability of a Skytap metadata service that allows access to Skytap-specific virtual machine (VM) metadata from within a running VM. This allows you to leverage information about a running VM from a command line, application or script running within the VM itself. Additionally, this metadata service also introduces

Video Tutorial: Skytap CLI Copy to Region

  • Posted on: July 30, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​ Skytap operates multiple datacenters, which allows Skytap resources such as virtual machines, configurations, templates, and assets, to be located close to your user’s location. This ensures faster connection speeds and quicker response times. To transfer an image from one region to another, the basic process is to use the standard Skytap export feature and

Remote Collaboration in the Modern Technology Enterprise

  • Posted on: July 15, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Remote collaboration has become an essential part of the modern technology enterprise, but without the right tools it can be a real pain. When coding, troubleshooting, teaching someone a graphical application—or anything else you do—it seems so much easier if you and your partners are looking at the same thing side by side. Posting log

Video Tutorial: Skytap Templates and Configurations

  • Posted on: July 8, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​Templates are the starting point for all new configurations within Skytap Cloud. Think of them as ‘read-only blueprints’ for configurations. A template can be as simple as a single virtual machine, or as complex as an environment with dozens of virtual machines and multiple networks. Every Skytap customer has access to a variety of public

Former Stratavia CEO and HP Executive to Lead Skytap Through Next Phase

  • Posted on: July 1, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Today we are proud to announce that Thor Culverhouse has been appointed CEO of Skytap. Thor previously served as President and CEO of Stratavia, a leading provider of data center automation software solutions, which was acquired by HP in August 2010. Thor replaces outgoing CEO, Scott Roza, who led Skytap through five years of consecutive

Conversations at IBM Innovate

  • Posted on: June 13, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The Skytap team was at IBM Innovate last week—IBM’s premier networking and educational event for IT and engineering professionals engaged in all aspects of product development and software delivery. Just before the conference, we announced our Ready for Rational certification with the availability of the Skytap Automation Pack for IBM Rational Concert. Over the course

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,