Tag: Agile Development

Skytap to Deliver Cloud-Enabled Application Lifecycle Management With HP

  • Posted on: June 6, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Are you attending HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas? If so, be sure to swing by the Skytap booth (#531) and learn how companies like HP, Google, Ellie Mae, Double-Take, LANDesk, Calypso, and hundreds more are using Skytap to move development and test projects to the cloud. With Skytap you can provide cloud testing capabilities that

Skytap to Deliver Cloud-Enabled Application Lifecycle Management With HP

  • Posted on: June 6, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Are you attending HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas? If so, be sure to swing by the Skytap booth (#531) and learn how companies like HP, Google, Ellie Mae, Double-Take, LANDesk, Calypso, and hundreds more are using Skytap to move development and test projects to the cloud. With Skytap you can provide cloud testing capabilities that

Three Reasons Why DevOps and the Cloud are Perfect for Business Success

  • Posted on: May 26, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Original Post Can be found on ReadWriteWeb.Com here. Night and day. Science and art. 1s and 0s.  For years now, software development teams and operations/system administrators have maintained this kind of yin and yang duality, pushing each other in opposing, but complementary, directions.  We’re all familiar with the dynamic of the IT department. Typically, the

New Features Coming to Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: May 5, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
There are some new and exciting things coming to Skytap Cloud. We are constantly gathering feedback from our customers to help drive our innovation at Skytap. In our upcoming May Release new features targeted include: Large Sized Virtual Machines Users will now have the ability to run applications that have either heavy computational requirements, extremely large

5 Mistakes SMB’s Can Avoid When Moving to the Cloud

  • Posted on: April 14, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
As Featured On ReadWriteWeb.Com 1. Loving a Cloud before determining the problem you are trying to solve. Just move to the cloud. It’s easy right? As they say on TV…”To the Cloud!”. The fact is, moving to the cloud as an SMB can be both advantageous and overwhelming. Adopting cloud computing technology within your organization

A Cloud Mashup is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

  • Posted on: April 7, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
With Cloud Computing being offered by a variety of vendors to solve a range of problems, now more than ever it is very easy to combine clouds to solve your unique problems. Attempting to shoe horn your needs into one particular cloud offering that happens to solve one problem well and trying to apply it

3 Critical Questions to Ask Regarding Cloud Security

  • Posted on: April 1, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
One of the biggest barriers to Cloud Computing adoption is security…as it should be. When evaluating applications and/or use cases to move to the Cloud, one must ask themselves three fundamental questions. First, does the use case that I want to put in the Cloud make sense from a security perspective? Second, will the data

3 Tips for Getting Started With Cloud Computing

  • Posted on: March 31, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
There is a ton of noise around Cloud Computing these days and it can be extremely confusing as to what it really is and how it can benefit your organization.  I wanted to take a few moments to share with you how organizations can get started with the Cloud with three easy tips. First and

How To Enhance Team Productivity and Ship Quality Software

  • Posted on: March 29, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
It is a widely accepted notion that the cloud brings immense power and scalability at the finger tips of developers and testers. However, a good measure of the utility of any platform or tooling for a developer/tester lies in the answer to a simple question: “How productive can I be in shipping a quality product

Skytap Selected By AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 Private Company

  • Posted on: March 21, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap was selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 winner last week. The OnDemand 100 is made up of the top private on-demand and SaaS companies that are carving out the cloud computing landscape with fresh and innovative technology. Skytap has achieved this prestigious accolade for being the leading provider of self-service cloud automation

Cloud Freedom or Cloud Control? Why Not Both?

  • Posted on: March 1, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Let’s face it. As users, we all love the cloud model.  Cloud enables us with self-service freedom, on-demand resources and pay-as-you go flexibility. In a matter of minutes we can get access to cloud resources without too many constraints. That freedom leaves users wanting more. The proof of this adoption is evident in both market

Five Must Haves For A Successful Hybrid Cloud Implementation

  • Posted on: January 13, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Businesses have spent millions of dollars to create optimized data centers that contain important business policies and corporate data. At the same time, functional users are racing to adopt the cloud model for application dev/test, migration, training and IT sandbox purposes. IT leaders are often faced with the pressures of enabling users with cloud based