Tag: datacenter

The Skytap on Azure (SoA) Hong Kong region is now available in the Azure Marketplace

  • Posted on: August 13, 2021
  • Author: Skytap
We’re happy to announce that the Skytap on Azure (SoA) Hong Kong region is now available in the Azure Marketplace and hosted in the Azure East Asia data center to help support our APAC customers. Customers may create new Skytap on Azure accounts or add this region to their existing Skytap on Azure accounts. For

CAN-Toronto Makes Seven Skytap Datacenters

  • Posted on: February 18, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
News today from Toronto, where Skytap just launched a seventh cloud datacenter (CAN-Toronto) in Toronto, Canada. Read the press release here: Skytap Delivers New Cloud Datacenter in Toronto, Canada Offers businesses a production-ready Canadian cloud service uniquely optimized for enterprise software development and modernization Besides providing lower latency and less distance to cover for some

Skytap Going Big at IBM InterConnect 2016

  • Posted on: February 11, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
With IBM InterConnect only a couple weeks away in Las Vegas (Feb 21-25), we thought we’d give you the inside scoop on all of the places you can find us during the show. Skytap is going to have a huge presence at this year’s event; we’re presenting sessions, unveiling exciting new details about our partnership

Partner Spotlight: Skytap and IBM SoftLayer

  • Posted on: February 2, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Running a global cloud service that handles the highly variable workloads of software development, testing and training is no simple feat. Launching new Skytap datacenters where customers need them most — for instance, in Sydney, Australia — is essential to continued growth. In today’s Partner Spotlight, Skytap VP of IT Operations Paul Farrall talks about how

Guest Post: Data Quality as an Initiative

  • Posted on: December 16, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​This article was authored by David Guimbellot and was originally published on Orasi’s “Eye on Quality” blog. If your business is capturing or coordinating persistent data as a primary function then it behooves you to create a data quality initiative that improves your Test Data Management (TDM). There are common opportunities in the way that

​The Ethics of Cloud Computing – Part 1

  • Posted on: December 15, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Cloud computing seems to still be one of the reigning buzzwords in high-tech these days. Everything is either “in the cloud”, “powered by the cloud”, or some variation on the theme. I remember when hosted email was just that: hosted email. Today, such offerings are considered cloud offerings even though they have not changed in

Using the Mesosphere Technology Stack in Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: September 12, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap recently announced the availability of the Mesosphere Technology Stack template in the Skytap Public Template Library. The Mesosphere Technology Stack is a framework for developers and system admins to build out self-healing, fault-tolerant and scalable solutions on top of Apache Mesos.  You can find out more about Mesosphere at http://mesosphere.io. This template allows you

SAP Sapphire Recap: The Race to Simplify

  • Posted on: June 9, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Give credit to the organizers of SAP Sapphire, held last week in Orlando, Florida. I’d never attended this conference before, and was a little intimidated at the concept of navigating the one million square feet of the event space and choosing which of the 1,800+ sessions to attend. That is a staggering amount of information,

What Are NoSQL Databases?

  • Posted on: January 20, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
SQL databases, in all their varieties, have served as the backbone of critical business applications for nearly three decades. SQL has provided application developers with a robust platform to store and retrieve data, and perhaps most importantly, relate data across tables through a series of joins. Yet, despite the tremendous value provided to application developers

How Skytap’s Customers Used the Cloud in 2013

  • Posted on: December 26, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Between the keynotes, the track sessions, and the conversations on the expo floor, Amazon AWS re:Invent 2013 was a ton of information to take in over the course of a couple of days. Amidst all the goings-on, we got the opportunity to sit down with three of Skytap’s customers to learn a little more about

Training in the Cloud: An Interview with Lee Orrick

  • Posted on: December 26, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Lee Orrick from F5 sits down to discuss how F5 made the decision to move their training to the cloud, in order to relieve some of the pain points—cost, time away from work, shipping of hardware around the world—from their business. Learn how F5 ensured the cloud would provide the legal coverage, licensing issues, and

Skytap Adds New APAC Data Center

  • Posted on: December 17, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is pleased to announce the opening of our newest data center in Singapore. This allows Skytap to serve our customers based in APAC as well as those customers with a presence in the region. It has been a busy year at Skytap in terms of expansion. In addition to our new US-East data center