Tag: Agile Development

Accelerate DevOps with Hybrid Cloud

  • Posted on: July 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​In my previous blog, Combining DevOps with Agile Development, I discussed the state of DevOps and the need to incorporate Agile Development—concluding that while DevOps and Agile development were a great fit, a hybrid cloud was the third piece of the puzzle to help the enterprise accelerate the pace of software development, deployment, and innovation.

Gearing Up for Agile 2013 in Nashville

  • Posted on: July 23, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The Skytap team is gearing up to attend Agile 2013 in Nashville from August 5 to 9. The Agile 2013 conference is considered the premier Agile event of the year, and provides a week-long opportunity to engage in wide-open interaction, collaboration, and sharing of ideas with peers and colleagues within the global Agile community. All

Time. Development and Test Teams Never Have Enough of it.

  • Posted on: July 19, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Leading software companies are discovering that leveraging the cloud for development and test can slash both cycle times and costs by enabling dev/test teams to quickly spin up multiple development stacks and test environments on demand. This type of agile environment is proving particularly beneficial to IT teams that are also tasked with support of

Remote Collaboration in the Modern Technology Enterprise

  • Posted on: July 15, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Remote collaboration has become an essential part of the modern technology enterprise, but without the right tools it can be a real pain. When coding, troubleshooting, teaching someone a graphical application—or anything else you do—it seems so much easier if you and your partners are looking at the same thing side by side. Posting log

With Cloud Computing, Every Minute Counts

  • Posted on: June 25, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Benjamin Franklin coined the enduring phrase ‘Time is money.’ That was more than 2 centuries ago and it is particularly apt when describing cloud computing today. A defining characteristic of cloud computing—whether public, private, or hybrid—is its self-service nature. Computing resources are delivered on demand and end users pay based on their consumption levels, which

The Results Are In: 2013 Future of Cloud Computing Survey

  • Posted on: June 21, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​For the third year in a row, North Bridge Venture Partners and GigaOM Research have produced a survey on The Future of Cloud Computing. The survey was supported by 57 collaborators making it the broadest survey of its kind. The study compiles results from hundreds of respondents, over a third from c-level executives at leading

NetworkWorld Names Skytap Automation Pack for IBM RTC as Product of the Week

  • Posted on: June 4, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
NetworkWorld has named Skytap Automation Pack for IBM Rational Team Concert among its Products of the Week for June 3, 2013. Skytap Automation Pack is software that installs alongside the IBM Jazz Team Server and continuously monitors the build request queue. Incoming build requests trigger an automated process that creates complete build environments in Skytap

Dev/Test: A 5-Step Process for Tuning out the Cloud Hype

  • Posted on: May 16, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Over the past few years it would have been hard to miss the slow and systematic outsourcing of certain parts of corporate IT. The primary solution has been cloud computing—which, of course, means the market is flush with cloud providers—and a lot of hype. With so many options to choose from, it becomes even more

WEBINAR Cloud-enabled ALM: CI and Automated Testing

  • Posted on: May 14, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Join us Tuesday, May 28, at 11:00 am PT (2:00 pm ET) for Cloud Enabled ALM: Continuous Integration & Automated Testing. Enterprises today are looking for ways to accelerate their rate of innovation, increase revenues, and lower the costs of software development and delivery. Agile development and testing methodologies are increasingly being adopted as a

Agile Development Teams: An Infrastructure Checklist

  • Posted on: May 7, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The goal of agile development is to shift from a long and inflexible development process to a shorter, more collaborative process that enables the shipping of software more frequently. To truly be successful, agile development teams need the following from their development and test lab infrastructure: Self-service Provisioning and On-Demand Scalability Software development teams need

Skytap Experts to Speak at Spring Development and Testing Conferences

  • Posted on: April 10, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
This spring, Skytap experts will be discussing enterprise cloud computing trends and showcasing award-winning software at a number of industry events, including Camp IT, SharePointlandia, STAREAST, and IBM Innovate. We’ll provide live demonstrations of Skytap Cloud, including how our software is used by enterprise customers for development and testing, software demonstrations and evaluations, and virtual

White Paper: Skytap Automation Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio TFS

  • Posted on: March 25, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Our newest white paper outlines how the Skytap Automation Pack for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server provides the integration between VS-TFS and Skytap Cloud. This integration enables development and test teams to use the same skills, workflows, and processes they already use with MS-TFS, while reaping the benefits that Skytap Cloud provides—provisioning complex environments, fast