Tag: Cloud Computing

Webinar On-Demand: Preparing for VMware Lab Manager End of Life

  • Posted on: May 28, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​ VMware’s Lab Manager has been an integral part of dev/test team workflows and processes for many years. As of May 2014, VMware has decided to end-of-life Lab Manager and this has left many customers scrambling to find a replacement or system to meet the needs currently served by Lab Manager. Lab Manager was such

Hey, Where Did My Lab Management Software Go?

  • Posted on: May 20, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​Remember the space called VLM? Virtual Lab Management? It was one of the next big things in IT about seven or eight years ago. If you could consolidate servers, desktop PCs, and software in VMs to make your data center way more efficient, why not virtualize all the development and test servers you need in

SaaS Leads the Way in Cloud Computing’s “Hypergrowth”

  • Posted on: May 1, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​We might start seeing a decline in the number of articles that simply state that cloud computing is “on the rise.” Of course it is. Forrester’s James Staten recently pointed out that that with all of the advantages that cloud computing provides, “it will increasingly be difficult to justify not leveraging cloud services.” Staten does

Skytap Bitstrips Comic Collection – April

  • Posted on: April 28, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​We’ve been getting requests for another monthly comic strip recap; Sorry, we’ve been a little busy! March was an incredible month at Skytap, with the unveiling of Skytap on AWS infrastructure, and our incredible new partnership program, sometimes sitting around *drawing* comics takes an understandable backseat to more pressing, and admittedly more impressive matters. Alas,

Webinar Recap: Achieve Continuous Integration/Delivery with HP, Jenkins, and Skytap

  • Posted on: April 17, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​In today’s hyper-competitive markets, businesses must constantly strive to develop, test, and release better software faster. One of the best ways we’ve found to make this difficult task possible is by embracing “continuity”—one of the decade’s fastest growing buzzwords. This means continuous testing, integration, and delivery.  This past Tuesday, we hosted a webinar with Orasi

Interview: Peter Coffee on Leveraging the Web’s Transformation

  • Posted on: April 10, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Noel Wurst: Hello, this is Noel Wurst with Skytap and I am speaking today with Peter Coffee. Peter is the VP for Strategic Resource at salesforce.com and he’s also going to be taking part in the SDLC Acceleration Summit on May 13th in San Francisco, California. Peter how are you doing today? Peter Coffee: It’s

Development and Test Lab Management Survey Now Available

  • Posted on: April 4, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
We’d like to take a minute to introduce an opportunity to take part in a survey that should yield some fascinating results—results that you’ll be provided in a report for free just for participating in the survey!  voke, a modern analyst firm specializing in application lifecycle innovation, put the survey together and we can’t wait

Upcoming Webinar: Maximizing Skytap on Amazon Web Services

  • Posted on: March 25, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​As you might have heard, we recently launched support for Skytap on Amazon Web Services. Skytap on AWS is ideal for dev/test teams who want a fast on-ramp to AWS and need to quickly and repeatedly deploy complex application environments. If your team is using AWS for production applications, you can now use Skytap to

Product Manager Matt Ayers on Skytap’s Integration with Amazon Web Services

  • Posted on: March 18, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Hi folks, I’m a product manager here at Skytap and I wanted to take some time to talk about our newly-launched support for Skytap on Amazon Web Services. Since beginning a private beta program last November, we’ve been working closely with our customers who use AWS, and after receiving extensive customer feedback, we are releasing

On-Demand: The Concept of Hybrid Applications

  • Posted on: February 27, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​In our recent webinar, “The Concept of Hybrid Applications,” Seth Payne, Sr. Technical Product Manager for Skytap, took a look at a growing trend amongst forward-thinking enterprise teams. With the growth of cloud computing, technical managers are looking for ways to leverage this emerging platform to improve performance, reduce costs, and better serve their users.

Theresa Lanowitz on Solving Age-Old Problems in the Enterprise

  • Posted on: February 26, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Noel: Hello, this is Noel Wurst with Skytap and I am speaking with Theresa Lanowitz today, who is the founder of voke. Theresa is going to be giving a keynote at this year’s STAREAST conference on May 8, in Orlando, Florida. The keynote is titled “Extreme Automation: Software Quality for the Next Generation Enterprise.” I wanted

Cloud Biology: Enterprise Evolution Ramps Up

  • Posted on: February 24, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
I’d love to take a poll (feel free to share your opinion in the comments section below) on whether software should be considered a living organism in the purist biological sense. Sure, software is made up of code instead of cells, and it may have trouble finding a home in the classic taxonomic rank of