Tag: Development and Test

New Windows 8 Enterprise x64 and Windows Server 2012 Templates

  • Posted on: February 11, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
We recently added a couple of new templates to the Skytap Cloud public template library. The first template is a new Windows 8 Enterprise x64. This is an x64 template to go along with our Windows 8 32-bit template. So while you may have been waiting around to see what’s what before trying Windows 8,

User Support Series: Skytap Cloud Basics

  • Posted on: February 6, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In the Skytap Cloud User Support series, we’re taking a close look at sections of the Skytap Help documentation. In this entry, we’ll cover Skytap Basics, which features an array of articles covering every main feature of Skytap Cloud. This will be the first stop for users looking for more information after going through Getting

Eating Our Own Dogfood The Skytap Development Environment

  • Posted on: February 4, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
If you’re a developer working on a scalable web application, you’ve had your share of frustrations maintaining a development stack. In a simple LAMP shop, you can get away with running an entire development stack on the same machine … until you need to test code involving load balancers, or test code that is expected

Achieve Agility Throughout the Development Lifecycle

  • Posted on: January 30, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Agile development is a goal that almost every development team shoots for these days. The more efficiently a team can deliver a product, the faster customers can gain access to it—and the faster the organization can generate revenue. But Agile development doesn’t just mean developers coding things faster. Every link along the delivery chain has

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

Skytap Adds Templates to Public Library to Support Cloudera and Hadoop

  • Posted on: January 16, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Pre-configured enterprise templates that support Cloudera® and Apache™ Hadoop® are now available in the Skytap Cloud public template library. With this release, our enterprise customers gain on-demand, self-service access to Cloudera’s open source distribution of Apache Hadoop, including the Cloudera Enterprise free edition, which can be used to deploy and manage physical or virtual clusters

Best Practices for Choosing a Cloud Service Provider

  • Posted on: December 12, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Today we’re revisiting our series on the topic of choosing a cloud service provider. Many cloud providers have a hands-off approach to partnering with customers—so Alex Burreson, our West Coast Sales Manager, has provided his list of key questions to ask and successful habits to employ when making this crucial decision for your organization. There

Adding Cloud Infrastructure to Your Automated Dev/Test Environment

  • Posted on: November 28, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
When most people think about using a public infrastructure cloud, it’s usually for an Internet-facing application like a company web server. And if you’ve ever considered a public infrastructure cloud for a training or dev/test environment, you might picture end users having to use some kind of remote access client, connecting via a client-based VPN,

New AutoNetworks and CloudControl Capabilities

  • Posted on: November 14, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Today we announced new AutoNetworks™ and CloudControl™ capabilities for enterprise hybrid clouds. Our multi-VPN capability extends software-defined networking features, and our new Scheduler automates actions on Skytap Cloud resources. AutoNetworks AutoNetworks is our unique software-defined networking capabilities for complex, multi-network, multi-machine environments. With multi-VPN capability, users can create multiple two-way secure connections between their Skytap

Time for Change: Replacing VMware Lab Manager

  • Posted on: November 6, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
In Part 1 of this series, May VMware Lab Manager Rest in Peace, I talked about how VMware has ‘end of lifed’ Lab Manager and will soon no longer support it. Knowing that, if you are using VMware Lab Manager, you may be actively researching your options for replacement. So let’s dive right in. VMware’s

New GitLab, Jenkins, and Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Server Templates

  • Posted on: October 26, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
This week, we added a few new templates to the Skytap Cloud public template library. Our first template is the Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Server x64 Linux OS. Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS is the latest “long-term support” version of Ubuntu. You can read all about it in the Ubuntu release notes. The template has been set up

The Cloud and Its Technological Spring

  • Posted on: October 15, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Back in April 2010, Steve Jobs wrote an open letter called Thoughts on Flash. From the time the original iPhone was released in 2007, Apple had been quiet as to why they decided to exclude Flash from the most technologically advanced phone on the planet. Partners and customers alike were up in arms because Flash