Tag: Application Lifecycle Management

ALM Summit 3 – Expertise Worth Sharing

  • Posted on: January 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
This year’s ALM Summit runs January 29 to 31, and features keynotes and sessions by Microsoft executive and industry experts, as well as three focused breakout tracks: ALM Leadership, Agile Development, and new this year DevOps and Testing. Also returning is an update to last year’s popular full-time Hands-On Lab featuring self-guided tutorials on Team

Accelerate BDT Workflows with the Skytap Automation Pack

  • Posted on: January 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Agile development and testing methodologies enable businesses to accelerate the delivery of new software products to market. While some cloud services have attempted to provide a foundation for these Agile environments, they often require sacrifices from the development and test teams. Many cloud providers operate at the basic infrastructure-as-a-service level, which typically requires an up-front

Dev/Test: 3 Habits for Running a Successful Cloud Trial

  • Posted on: July 26, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
​Having personally helped hundreds of companies evaluate Skytap as a development and testing cloud provider, I wanted to pass along my top 3 habits for running a successful cloud trial. If you worked through the suggestions in my previous blog piece: Questions to Ask When Vetting a Cloud Service Provider, you will have a foundation

Five Ways the Cloud Can Supercharge Agile Development

  • Posted on: July 19, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Time. Development and test teams never have enough of it. Now more than ever before, development and test are under constant pressure to release quality features as quickly as possible. In fact, results from a 2011 Serena survey show that developers rank delivering applications faster as their number one priority, even more important than reducing

Cushman & Wakefield Invests in the Cloud

  • Posted on: July 17, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Creating great software on time and on budget is no small task. And like all businesses, Cushman & Wakefield—the world’s largest privately held real estate service firm—has faced an increasingly complex and fast moving market, with demands for shorter response times to IT requests and a desire to enhance productivity of development and test teams.

See You at Agile Development West: June 13 and 14

  • Posted on: June 12, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is a proud gold sponsor of Agile Development Conference West 2012–six days of interaction between industry experts and peers in the agile community, with learning sessions that help IT professionals make a powerful impact in their job roles and organizations. About the event: Discover Agile Development Conference West 2012 and take back the latest

George Carlin Would Have Loved Hybrid Clouds

  • Posted on: May 21, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
George Carlin’s bit on the importance of “stuff” is a comedy classic. As human beings, we have an innate need to acquire, hold, move, and find places to put our stuff. In our personal and professional lives, acquiring stuff can give us a sense of accomplishment, security, and control. Historically, acquiring stuff has been common practice

Skytap Joins Forces with HP and Orasi to Power New CloudPerform Solution

  • Posted on: February 7, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Our customers repeatedly echoed the same challenge: how can we enable our dev/test teams to deliver high quality software on time and on budget? With the increasing adoption of the cloud, many enterprises are starting to realize how this new computing paradigm can effectively support this effort. In fact, according to Alexandra Weber Morales, a

Skytap Announces Over One Million Virtual Machines Launched

  • Posted on: January 9, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
SEATTLE, Wash. – January 9, 2011 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that over one million virtual machines (VMs) have been launched by customers using its leading Skytap Cloud service. This represents a major milestone for Skytap, which provides businesses with an easy and secure way to create

Skytap Announces Over One Million Virtual Machines Launched

  • Posted on: January 9, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
SEATTLE, Wash. – January 9, 2011 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that over one million virtual machines (VMs) have been launched by customers using its leading Skytap Cloud service. This represents a major milestone for Skytap, which provides businesses with an easy and secure way to create

Cushman & Wakefield Selects Skytap to Build Development and Test Environments in the Cloud

  • Posted on: December 12, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Seattle, Wash. – December 12, 2011 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that Cushman & Wakefield, the world’s largest privately held real estate services firm operating in 230 global locations across 60 countries, has chosen to move its application development and test environments to the Skytap Cloud. Cushman

Cushman & Wakefield Selects Skytap to Build Development and Test Environments in the Cloud

  • Posted on: December 12, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Seattle, Wash. – December 12, 2011 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that Cushman & Wakefield, the world’s largest privately held real estate services firm operating in 230 global locations across 60 countries, has chosen to move its application development and test environments to the Skytap Cloud. Cushman