Tag: Development and Test

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

Wayne Ariola on the Future of the Software Development Life Cycle

  • Posted on: April 9, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Noel Wurst: Hello, this is Noel Wurst with Skytap, and I am speaking today with Wayne Ariola, who is the chief strategy officer at Parasoft. Wayne, how are you doing today? Wayne Ariola: Fantastic, thank you. Noel Wurst: So, I wanted to speak with Wayne because Wayne is helping organize the SDLC Acceleration Summit that’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

Our Latest Skytap Comic Strip Collection

  • Posted on: March 11, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
It’s time for another roundup of our popular weekly Bitstrips column. These make us laugh about our lives in the SaaS industry, and we hope you enjoy them, too. And don’t forget—you can always be the first to see our new comics by following us on Twitter! Want to help us with a title for

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.

Will DevOps Become the Norm? Your Customers Sure Hope So.

  • Posted on: February 14, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
All prognosticators, even us who simply roll out a single annual list, hope for two things: one, that your predictions get a lot of traction and shares across the industry, and two, that you end up actually being correct. Anil Batra’s list of 2014 predictions has turned a lot of heads, largely due to the

Rob Myers on Using TDD with Enterprise Development

  • Posted on: February 12, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Noel Wurst: Hello, this is Noel Wurst, with Skytap, and I am interviewing Rob Myers today. Rob Myers is an Agile coach and instructor and also the founder of the Agile institute. How are you doing today Rob? Rob Myers: Good. How are you? Noel Wurst: Great, doing great. I interviewed Rob about a year

Skytap Takes Additional Investment to Fuel Leadership in Development and Test Software Industry

  • Posted on: February 4, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap has experienced aggressive growth over the past several years, and 2013 was record breaking on many counts – including bringing in a new CEO, increasing headcount by 30%, numerous innovations to our dev/test SaaS offering, and expanding our international infrastructure footprint to meet the needs of our growing global customer base. In order to

How CI Is Coming to Mean “Continuous Innovation” in the Enterprise

  • Posted on: January 15, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Asking the question, “What is enterprise software?” or, “What is enterprise software designed to do?” will get you an infinite number of answers. I know, because I’ve asked this question again and again. But whether the answer is “to perform business functions,” “solve major problems,” or my favorite answer, “to provide value to our customers,”