Category: Company News

Consumerization at its Finest: Virtual, Self-Paced Training

  • Posted on: March 4, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Chalk up another win for Consumerization — and for anyone who has welcomed it into their business. Global access and full control over self-paced training isn’t the way of the future anymore. It’s here right now, and it’s what businesses expect out of learning programs. It shouldn’t be a surprise, really. We are in the consumerization
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Careers@Skytap Videos: When Hiring, Never Overlook the Passion

  • Posted on: February 23, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
As you might know by looking at news of our recent funding round, and Skytap bringing in Jill Domanico as VP of Talent, hiring the right people is absolutely essential to our growth plans. Since we’re surrounded by cutting-edge cloud companies here in Seattle looking to grow as well, good talent is in high demand.

Skytap’s New VP of Talent Ready to Share “Seattle’s Best Kept Secret”

  • Posted on: January 30, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap’s new VP of Talent has fascinating stories to tell and some outstanding advice for landing a job in one of the most competitive software development markets in the world—Seattle. Jill brings a wealth of experience to Skytap and will play a key role in our search for top talent looking to make a real

Deck the Halls with Walls of Metrics

  • Posted on: January 2, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
For some, the holiday season is a time to show gratitude. Others spend time with those they hold dear. Or maybe, it is a time to reflect upon the previous year, and look at the year ahead. Or, just clean out the house and donate all that stuff you didn’t need all year. These are

Your Healthcare, Your Cloud, and HIPAA

  • Posted on: November 4, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Healthcare companies once considered the idea of managing any computing activities in the cloud a distant future due to ever-tightening standards of patient privacy. But software development and testing workloads are equally as ideal and secure in the cloud for health industry enterprises as other complex businesses. Since the HIPAA Omnibus rule was released, and

On-premises Data Masking for Increased Cloud Testing Security

  • Posted on: October 28, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​ We recently hosted a webinar with one of our partners, Axis Technology, to demonstrate how their DMSuite® tool ensures that sensitive production data remains secure, while also providing testers with “intelligent” datasets that help them provide more complete testing. This webinar provides tips on how on-premises masked test data management addresses security concerns, while

Who Pays for Parallel Development Pizza Parties in the Cloud?

  • Posted on: October 21, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
As we move development and test activities into cloud-based labs, we have noticed an age-old challenge arise to some companies’ adoption efforts. While it is tempting to focus on the value or ROI we can achieve from cloud dev/test environments, we should never forget to ask, “Exactly who pays for all this?” Is accounting getting

Creating an Autoconfiguring IBM UrbanCode Deploy Agent in Skytap

  • Posted on: September 25, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap recently announced the availability of the Skytap Automation Pack for IBM UrbanCode Deploy. You can read about it in this Skytap blog post from earlier this year. You’ll recall that this plugin adds the following functionality into the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Application Process web UI to create and manipulate templates and configurations in Skytap:

Skytap CEO: “Let’s Build a Successful Business” as Enterprises Begin Shift to the Cloud

  • Posted on: August 19, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
  ​Rachel Lerman at the Puget Sound Business Journal recently sat down with our CEO, Thor Culverhouse, to discuss the current shift of enterprise software to the cloud, and how this is setting up Skytap for “massive growth”—her words, not ours—but we’ll take it! Thor provided Rachel with the areas that our business has grown,

Skytap’s new Copy-to-Region lets your SDLC “Follow the Moon”

  • Posted on: August 5, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
For the past few years, the holy grail of enterprise IT is to have large scale global software development, testing and integration activities that “follow the sun.” So when your development team checks in and goes home in San Jose, CA, there’s a testing team just getting started in Bangalore, India. And when they check

Development and Test Cloud with Service Virtualization: Parts of a Complete Breakfast

  • Posted on: July 29, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​I recently heard from a customer who was curious if Skytap Cloud environments compete with a leading Service Virtualization solution I used to evangelize in a past life. Not at all – in fact the invention of Service Virtualization resolved some of the primary constraints to serious enterprise adoption of public dev/test cloud environments. We

Announcing MinorJS: An Unopinionated, Ultra-minimal Web Framework for Node.js

  • Posted on: July 16, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is a big believer in open source software. Our company is built on amazing open source projects like Linux, Ruby on Rails and Node.js. That’s why we feel it’s so important to give back to the open source community by releasing and maintaining the MinorJS project. What is MinorJS? MinorJS is an unopinionated, ultra-minimal