SEATTLE, WA – January 23, 2014 – Skytap, the leading provider of self-service application development environments in the cloud, today introduced its first international data center; located in Singapore and serving customers across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region – including those in Australia, Hong Kong and China. In addition to two existing US-based data centers (US-East and US-West), Skytap’s global footprint now reaches the APAC region.
Singapore is quickly becoming one of the hottest data center hubs in the APAC market, with tech giants including Amazon Web Services, IBM and Salesforce.com adding data centers to the region over the last few years. As a result of this recent growth, the country now accounts for roughly half of South East Asia’s data center capacity, according to the Singapore Economic Development Board.
“Our newest data center location will help Skytap support the rapid growth we’re experiencing within the global enterprise technology market, while at the same time meeting the specific demands of our customers looking to develop and test their critical business applications in the APAC region,” said Brian White, vice president of products at Skytap. “International expansion into the Singapore market supports software development teams with the speed and latency they need to fast-track delivery within the region, as well as optimize collaboration amongst their globally dispersed teams.”
Skytap’s SaaS solution provides software development and test teams with the tools and resources to build, test and release better software faster. With this announcement, Skytap’s global enterprise customer base, which includes IT operations and development and test teams, gains international support for on-demand deployment of complex compute and networked environments. Skytap has over 250 enterprise customers who rely on for numerous enterprise-ready features, including scalability to quickly expand development and test environments, automate and accelerate testing processes, and seamless creation of multiple parallel environments to facilitate secure collaboration amongst globally dispersed teams.
