Tag: DevOps

Slashdot TV Interview With Brett Goodwin on Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: June 13, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
At last month’s Interop Conference in Las Vegas, Slashdot TV stopped by the Skytap booth to speak with Brett Goodwin, our VP of Marketing and Business Development. In the interview, Brett elaborates on the features and capabilities of Skytap Cloud™ and how application developers and testers use our product to collaborate and do more faster.

The Cloud … Now With More IaaS

  • Posted on: May 24, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Late last week, Derrick Harris, of tech industry watcher GigaOm, blogged that both Google and Microsoft are readying new entrants to compete in the ongoing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud arms race. While Harris’ sources in Mountain View and Redmond have “declined to comment” on the particulars, it doesn’t require a wild imagination to

Information Week Cover Story: The Test Lab of Your Dreams

  • Posted on: May 21, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Information Week’s recent cover story talks about how and why more companies are opting to move their development testing labs from traditional in-house infrastructures to new cloud-based test labs. But beyond the glossy descriptions of compelling benefits, Information Week goes a layer deeper to the key question that I hear many enterprises asking: What are

Networking Perspectives: How It’s Done at Skytap

  • Posted on: May 18, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
In the first part of this piece, Networking Perspectives: OpenStack v CloudStack, I discussed some of the primary differences between the network architectures of OpenStack and CloudStack. A key point was what we here at Skytap believe are the three core tenets of cloud networking: Clouds are inherently multi-tenant, and network definition and provisioning should

Networking Perspectives: OpenStack v CloudStack

  • Posted on: May 9, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
In early April, OpenStack released the Essex version of its stack software. Citrix, two days prior, announced their release of the CloudStack project under the Apache2 license, creating a genuinely competitive market for open-sourced stack software. We here at Skytap are excited to see this, since it represents a growing maturity and adoption of cloud

Dev and Ops: Night and Day. Science and Art. 1s and 0s.

  • Posted on: May 8, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
For years now, software development teams and operations/system administrators have maintained this kind of yin and yang duality, pushing each other in opposing yet complementary directions. We’re all familiar with the dynamic of the IT department. Typically, the development team’s raison d’être is to deliver new features to end users. Meanwhile, operations/system administrators focus on

Lab Manager EOL: Weighing Your Options

  • Posted on: May 3, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
In early 2011, VMware announced its decision to discontinue additional major releases of vCenter Lab Manager. This leaves organizations that are currently running Lab Manager at a crossroads. They need to determine whether it’s best for them to continue using the virtual lab infrastructure that is already in place, or consider other options for their

Don’t Overspend Just Because It’s the Cloud

  • Posted on: May 1, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
As momentum around cloud computing continues to drive adoption, it’s not surprising to start seeing more articles about the real costs. One such example is a recent posting I read on VentureBeat. Entitled New study finds small startups typically overspend on Amazon web services by 50% or more, the post recapped a study conducted by

5 Tips For Adopting Agile IT Methodologies

  • Posted on: November 29, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
The cloud model provides convenient, affordable, and on-demand computing resources tailored for software development teams as well as augmenting in-house IT environments. Today’s leading companies use the cloud to change IT to be more agile and power their agile software development teams. Below are five tips that enable them to deliver agile IT. 1. Don’t

Wrangling an out of control cloud with notification and usage limits

  • Posted on: September 29, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Now that I’ve shifted the majority of my day-to-day workflow to the cloud it’s easier than ever to have custom environments for each project I’m working on. I still use Google Docs for most document creation and project tracking (lesson learned from an earlier hard drive failure) but for my demo environments, which involve complicated

7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects – Part Three

  • Posted on: September 21, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Lat week we posted part two of our series: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects. This week we will cover habits 6 and 7. Habit #6: Let your users share IT environments; be sure to manage user roles A big part of being agile in software development is the ability for developers, test engineers and support

Skytap Cloud: Inter-Configuration Network Routing (ICNR)

  • Posted on: August 14, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Did you know that Skytap now allows you to provision complex environments in the cloud to develop and test multi-machine, multi-tier applications? You can also provision multiple configurations for your development and test teams so that each team can work in isolated environments in parallel and collaborate with each other globally. These teams often need