Tag: Agile Development

The Challenges and Rewards of DevOps and Agile Integration

  • Posted on: September 19, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​On the heels of our recent white paper: Accelerate Software Development with DevOps and Hybrid Cloud, I’ve written a bit on the subject of DevOps, Agile, and hybrid cloud. While integrating software development, QA, and IT Operations enables increased visibility and accelerated software development and deployment, implementing DevOps only serves as a strong first step

CAMP IT: Cloud Computing Strategies – The Next Generation

  • Posted on: September 17, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Since 1984, CAMP IT Conferences has produced events designed to help IT professionals understand new technologies and make the critical, strategic, and tactical decisions for their enterprises. The speakers at CAMP IT all have practical experience in their topic area, as well as excellent presentation skills. Over 32,000 enterprise IT executives, management, and technical-staff representing

Disaster Scenario: Will You Have Cloud Safety and In-House Control?

  • Posted on: September 16, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
This summer, an interesting story about a cloud consultancy’s in-house systems breaking down due to a local disaster made the rounds: How my company went 100 percent cloud. In short, one night around 2 a.m., a drunk driver who was fleeing a hit-and-run drove his SUV directly into a building adjacent to the company and

Skytap Welcomes New VP of Sales, Brian Barry.

  • Posted on: September 12, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Today we’re proud to introduce our new VP of Sales, Brian Barry. Brian brings more than 16 years of sales experience at enterprise software companies. Throughout his career, he has formed deep relationships at Fortune 500 companies in the finance, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, communications, and insurance industries. Prior to joining Skytap, Brian served as the

Join Skytap CTO Brad Schick at DatacenterDynamics Converged 2013

  • Posted on: September 5, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
On Thursday, September 12, Skytap CTO and VP of Engineering, Brad Schick, will be speaking at the DatacenterDynamics Conference in Bellevue. The conference is the world’s largest peer-led data center conference and expo​, and offers attendees the chance to learn the latest strategies and best practices from leading end users and cloud-scale data center operators.

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

Ask a Skytap Engineer: Ian Bone

  • Posted on: August 20, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
For this edition of the ‘Ask a Skytap Engineer’ series, I spoke with Ian Bone, an engineer on Skytap’s networking team. Ian’s been all over the stack at a variety of large and small employers, and he really dislikes doing work that computers can do for him. In his spare time, Ian bikes, dances, does

Agile 2013: Creating Software Better and Faster

  • Posted on: August 13, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The Skytap team recently returned from Agile 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee. The conference offered anyone involved with software development a unique opportunity to explore the depth of Agile techniques. Skytap was proud to be a part of all the methodologies and tools that were on display during the week. And over at the Skytap booth,

A Look at the Expert Predictions for VMworld 2013

  • Posted on: August 8, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
It’s never too early to start planning for VMworld. The Skytap team is always excited to attend an event where so many great companies are emerging with great products. The energy, enthusiasm, and spirit of innovation and learning over the 5-day event is off the charts. It’s definitely our kind of scene. As we’re all

Skytap Leadership at Upcoming Industry Events

  • Posted on: August 6, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In the coming months, Skytap leadership will be attending a number of industry events, including Agile 2013, VMworld, Camp IT, and STARWEST. The Skytap team will be providing live demonstrations of Skytap Cloud, including how our software is used by enterprise customers for development and testing, software demonstrations and evaluations, and virtual training environments. Agile

While the Principles of Agile are Simple, Making it Reality is Hard

  • Posted on: August 5, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
To create great software, companies are using Agile development. But while the principles of Agile development are simple, transforming it into reality can be hard due to obstacles like costs, large teams, one-size-fits-all architecture, resource constraints, old technology—and the list goes on. To achieve Agile development, teams require elastic, dynamic, scalable, automated, self-service infrastructures. Many

White Paper: Accelerate Software Development with DevOps and Hybrid Cloud

  • Posted on: August 1, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Our new whitepaper discusses the state of DevOps and hybrid cloud computing, as well as the business and technical advantages of combining DevOps with hybrid cloud architecture. The right cloud provider will enable enterprises to move workloads to a secure hybrid cloud, thereby creating a seamless and secure extension to existing internal IT infrastructure, resources,