Tag: DevOps

Tap In Open Forum: What Is the Greatest Blocker to a Frictionless Enterprise?

  • Posted on: June 27, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
  We’re launching the “Tap In Open Forum”: a new series of blog posts where we detail a current topic being discussed in the software development and testing community and invite you to participate in an open discussion with our best and brightest here at Skytap. Feel free to share your thoughts and we’ll do

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

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

Easier Scaling in the Cloud: An Interview with Ryan Carey

  • Posted on: December 20, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
DataXu software engineer Ryan Carey sits down to explain how moving his company’s dev/test environments to the cloud enabled his company to scale at the speed they needed by using on-demand resources. Noel Wurst: Hello. My name is Noel Wurst. I am with Skytap. Today I am sitting here with Ryan Carey from DataXu. DataXu

Skytap Team Heading to Agile Development Conference East

  • Posted on: November 11, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The Skytap team will be arriving in Boston to attend Agile Development Conference East. The event runs from November 10-15. At the conference, attendees will discover the latest in agile methods, technologies, tools, and leadership principles from thought leaders who deliver inspiring keynotes, in-depth tutorials, and a wide range of conference classes. Join industry experts

How DevOps Helps Move Your Automated Testing to the Cloud

  • Posted on: September 24, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
I recently had an article published on Techwell.com entitled: How DevOps Helps Move Your Automated Testing to the Cloud. The subject of development and testing in the cloud is highly relevant to today’s enterprises. Leading software companies are discovering that leveraging the cloud for development allows teams to quickly spin up multiple development stacks and

The Challenges and Rewards of DevOps and Agile Integration

  • Posted on: September 19, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​On the heels of our recent white paper: Accelerate Software Development with DevOps and Hybrid Cloud, I’ve written a bit on the subject of DevOps, Agile, and hybrid cloud. While integrating software development, QA, and IT Operations enables increased visibility and accelerated software development and deployment, implementing DevOps only serves as a strong first step

CAMP IT: Cloud Computing Strategies – The Next Generation

  • Posted on: September 17, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Since 1984, CAMP IT Conferences has produced events designed to help IT professionals understand new technologies and make the critical, strategic, and tactical decisions for their enterprises. The speakers at CAMP IT all have practical experience in their topic area, as well as excellent presentation skills. Over 32,000 enterprise IT executives, management, and technical-staff representing

Disaster Scenario: Will You Have Cloud Safety and In-House Control?

  • Posted on: September 16, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
This summer, an interesting story about a cloud consultancy’s in-house systems breaking down due to a local disaster made the rounds: How my company went 100 percent cloud. In short, one night around 2 a.m., a drunk driver who was fleeing a hit-and-run drove his SUV directly into a building adjacent to the company and

Don’t Let Your Hybrid Cloud Collapse Into a Black Hole

  • Posted on: September 9, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In this post, I will cover a topic, the PMTUD black hole, that can cause a particularly subtle set of issues in hybrid cloud-based environments where the cloud resources are connected to a corporate office or other datacenter via IPSec tunnels. PMTUD black holes basically cause certain (but not all) traffic to not make it

Join Skytap CTO Brad Schick at DatacenterDynamics Converged 2013

  • Posted on: September 5, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
On Thursday, September 12, Skytap CTO and VP of Engineering, Brad Schick, will be speaking at the DatacenterDynamics Conference in Bellevue. The conference is the world’s largest peer-led data center conference and expo​, and offers attendees the chance to learn the latest strategies and best practices from leading end users and cloud-scale data center operators.

Cloud Computing and the Security of Capital Markets

  • Posted on: August 30, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
I recently sat down with Danial Faizullabhoy from the Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (NUARI) to recount the story of the Quantum Dawn 2 (QD2) project. The purpose of QD2 was to test the security of capital markets during cyber attacks and other catastrophic events. Norwich University has been a Skytap customer for quite a