Category: Industry News

The Case for Replicant Production

  • Posted on: April 29, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Software systems development has changed from being something we think of as an engineering and planning challenge, like building a building or a bridge, into a highly incremental and experimental process of constantly trying new things and seeing how they work or don’t work. The key to this new approach is to get valid feedback

Evaluating Application Modernization Solutions: Part III (Conclusion)

  • Posted on: April 28, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
In this final chapter of our three-part series, Sumit Mehrotra shows how Skytap provides the configuration, consistency, collaboration, and control necessary for application modernization initiatives—including microservices and containerization. Learn how this 4Cs framework can help you modernize your complete product lifecycle to ensure that quality code and speed are consistently delivered with each release. Make sure

Evaluating Application Modernization Solutions: Part I

  • Posted on: April 12, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
As enterprises continue to move their existing, traditional applications to the cloud, Skytap has helped smooth this migration by enabling our customers to quickly and easily collaborate around cloud-based development and test environments. By giving teams the ability to provision complex environments on-demand and with one-click access—all while giving IT full control and visibility into

Do Your eLearning Metrics Prove Business Impact? Why Not? [Podcast]

  • Posted on: April 1, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
For this week’s episode of The Skytap Virtual Training Podcast, we sat down with Clark Quinn at the 2016 Learning Solutions Conference and Expo after attending his session, “Measurement Matters: The How and Why of eLearning Metrics.” Learn why Clark believes “L&D has the opportunity to be the most valuable part of your business” and

Helping Business and Training See Eye to Eye [Podcast]

  • Posted on: March 3, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
We sat down with CentralKnowledge, Inc. President, Ajay Pangarkar, at Training 2016 to discuss the disconnect that often exists between “the business” and training departments. In this episode of The DevHops Podcast, Ajay offers some excellent tips for trainers looking to avoid over-promising a training ROI to finance professionals, and how to deliver learning that

Making Self-directed Training Accessible and Learner-centric

  • Posted on: March 2, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
We’re taking a bit of a departure from the normal theme of The DevHops Podcast to focus on virtual training! Shannon Tipton sat down with us at Training 2016 to give us a preview of her session, “Creating Your 21st Century Toolbox.” Shannon explained how the modernization of training involves using traditional tools in a

What’s in Your DevOps Toolchain?

  • Posted on: March 1, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
In this chapter of our technical series, “Scaling Modern Software Delivery,” we sit down with Derek Weeks, Sonatype VP and DevOps advocate, to discuss the benefits and challenges of building—and governing—a modern DevOps toolchain. Derek also provides some incredible thoughts on the responsibility we all share for delivering the highest quality software possible as software is embedded

Cloud Transformation at Netflix: It Wasn’t Instant

  • Posted on: February 22, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Netflix has always been a leader in adopting technology and processes. Go to pretty much any technical conference, summit, or meet-up and you’ll find someone from Netflix’s engineering team presenting on the leading edge technology or process they’re implementing or have implemented. Last week Netflix announced in their blog they’ve completed their cloud migration for their streaming

Skytap Going Big at IBM InterConnect 2016

  • Posted on: February 11, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
With IBM InterConnect only a couple weeks away in Las Vegas (Feb 21-25), we thought we’d give you the inside scoop on all of the places you can find us during the show. Skytap is going to have a huge presence at this year’s event; we’re presenting sessions, unveiling exciting new details about our partnership

VMs vs. Docker – Dan Jones in Network World

  • Posted on: February 8, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Dan Jones’ recent article in Network World “Containers vs. VMs: It comes down to state management, networking, and sprawl” responds to some specific concerns regarding possible pitfalls when implementing Docker instead of more traditional VM architectures (only in IT can something just over decade old be considered “traditional” ). Dan discusses Docker’s evolution towards parity

Tipping the DevOps Scale: An Interview with Gary Gruver

  • Posted on: January 25, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]Welcome to another episode of The DevHops Podcast! This week we’re joined by Gary Gruver, co-author of Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale. It was great to have Gary on the show, as he

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