Tag: Development and Test

Gearing Up for Agile 2013 in Nashville

  • Posted on: July 23, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The Skytap team is gearing up to attend Agile 2013 in Nashville from August 5 to 9. The Agile 2013 conference is considered the premier Agile event of the year, and provides a week-long opportunity to engage in wide-open interaction, collaboration, and sharing of ideas with peers and colleagues within the global Agile community. All

Time. Development and Test Teams Never Have Enough of it.

  • Posted on: July 19, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Leading software companies are discovering that leveraging the cloud for development and test can slash both cycle times and costs by enabling dev/test teams to quickly spin up multiple development stacks and test environments on demand. This type of agile environment is proving particularly beneficial to IT teams that are also tasked with support of

Remote Collaboration in the Modern Technology Enterprise

  • Posted on: July 15, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Remote collaboration has become an essential part of the modern technology enterprise, but without the right tools it can be a real pain. When coding, troubleshooting, teaching someone a graphical application—or anything else you do—it seems so much easier if you and your partners are looking at the same thing side by side. Posting log

Do You Even Need Big Data?

  • Posted on: July 12, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
I recently wrote a piece for Techwell.com that addresses a question on many people’s mind: Does my company even need big data? It’s important to sidestep the hype and understand the different types of data sets and tools that are available, and which of them will fit the needs of your company. From the article:

Hybrid Cloud Capabilities for DevOps Professionals and Teams

  • Posted on: July 10, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Our enterprise-ready, hybrid cloud capabilities let IT operations and development and test professionals quickly and securely extend on-premise environments to Skytap Cloud. New features, including Network Address Translation (NAT), Command Line Interface (CLI) and Single Sign-On (SSO), enable development and test teams to more quickly and easily deploy virtual environments in Skytap Cloud, while providing

Video Tutorial: Skytap Templates and Configurations

  • Posted on: July 8, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​Templates are the starting point for all new configurations within Skytap Cloud. Think of them as ‘read-only blueprints’ for configurations. A template can be as simple as a single virtual machine, or as complex as an environment with dozens of virtual machines and multiple networks. Every Skytap customer has access to a variety of public

The Best of 2013 (So Far)

  • Posted on: July 3, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
As we pass the midpoint of 2013, we’re revisiting the most popular content on the Skytap blog. Across the cloud computing industry as a whole, people wrote about things like why application development is better in the cloud, the different value propositions of public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions, and the variety of concerns relating

Former Stratavia CEO and HP Executive to Lead Skytap Through Next Phase

  • Posted on: July 1, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Today we are proud to announce that Thor Culverhouse has been appointed CEO of Skytap. Thor previously served as President and CEO of Stratavia, a leading provider of data center automation software solutions, which was acquired by HP in August 2010. Thor replaces outgoing CEO, Scott Roza, who led Skytap through five years of consecutive

Here’s How You Knock a Cloud Trial Out of the Park

  • Posted on: June 27, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Today I’m going to pass along 3 successful habits for running a cloud trial. These tips are based on my experience helping hundreds of companies evaluate Skytap as a cloud provider for development and testing. If you worked through the suggestions in my previous blog piece: A 5-Step Process for Tuning out the Cloud Hype,

With Cloud Computing, Every Minute Counts

  • Posted on: June 25, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Benjamin Franklin coined the enduring phrase ‘Time is money.’ That was more than 2 centuries ago and it is particularly apt when describing cloud computing today. A defining characteristic of cloud computing—whether public, private, or hybrid—is its self-service nature. Computing resources are delivered on demand and end users pay based on their consumption levels, which

The Results Are In: 2013 Future of Cloud Computing Survey

  • Posted on: June 21, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​For the third year in a row, North Bridge Venture Partners and GigaOM Research have produced a survey on The Future of Cloud Computing. The survey was supported by 57 collaborators making it the broadest survey of its kind. The study compiles results from hundreds of respondents, over a third from c-level executives at leading

Video Tutorial: Accessing Skytap VMs via SmartClient

  • Posted on: June 20, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
When you access a VM using SmartClient, a window will launch displaying the login screen or desktop of the Guest OS. This operating environment will take up almost the entire window. The only other element will be the SmartClient toolbar, which overlays the OS at the top of the window. This is the primary way