Tag: Enterprise

The DevHops Podcast Episode 6: DevOps Practices for Systems of Record

  • Posted on: November 18, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
It’s time for another episode of the DevHops Podcast! While at the 2015 DevOps Enterprise Summit—check out our recap of the entire show—Skytap DevOps consulting manager Kelly Looney and I recorded this episode with Accenture agile and DevOps lead Mirco Hering. Mirco was giving his “Adopting DevOps Practices for Systems of Record” session later in

Gene Kim and Others Share What DevOps is Really “All About”

  • Posted on: October 25, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap was in full force at Electric Cloud’s second annual DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) last week—in the Expo, recording podcasts with the show’s amazing speakers, and sitting in on every keynote and track session possible. Our goal was to get a better grasp on how DevOps is being defined (a hundred different ways), how DevOps

Accelerating Application Releases in a Time Warp Oven

  • Posted on: August 5, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
On Wednesdy, August 26th, Skytap and CA Technologies will present a joint webinar, “Accelerated Application Releases in Cloud Environments: It’s Baked In!” where we’ll show how to eliminate SDLC bottlenecks and achieve faster velocity. Skytap’s Jason English will join Tim Mueting from CA Technologies (read his latest CA communities blog about it here) to share

The DevHops Podcast Ep. 3: How to Test for Enterprise Mobility

  • Posted on: July 17, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Lydia Casillas from Sky I.T. Group joins us for our third episode to discuss the challenges of testing mobile apps and the mobile web to ensure security, usability, and powerful “enterprise mobility.” We also review beers from Stone, Freemont, and Alltech Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co.! Tap In! Noel: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Skytap

Shrinking the Innovation Inequality Gap

  • Posted on: June 19, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
People used to talk all the time about “million dollar ideas” and how all it took was having one innovative idea for a product and you could be set for life. Maybe that was true at some time in the past, but today, an idea alone is worth very little. What’s worth a million dollars

Brad Schick on Evolving Complex Enterprise Applications to the Cloud

  • Posted on: June 8, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap’s CTO Brad Schick is fresh off a roadshow circuit, including a presentation at the recent OpenStack 2015 conference in Vancouver. In this talk, Brad frames the common adoption patterns for enterprises moving applications to cloud infrastructure. There are several well-known strategies for embarking on public cloud initiatives, but the most successful ones seem to

Skytap CTO to Cover Hybrid Apps and OpenStack at Two Upcoming Events

  • Posted on: May 15, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap CTO Brad Schick has been invited to speak at the 2015 Seattle Technology Leadership Summit and the OpenStack Summit Vancouver on the following day! We sat down with Brad to learn more about hybrid apps, enterprise cloud adoption, Bimodal IT, and some of the exciting benefits that OpenStack and Skytap can provide our growing communities.

Environments-as-a-Service “Essential” for Enterprise Dev & Test

  • Posted on: May 5, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
DevOps may still be in relative infancy, and current DevOps definitions may vary wildly, but one thing that all agree is essential to its success is automating manual steps throughout the SDLC that fail to add business value or software quality. We’ve been working with analyst Jason Bloomberg to help us paint a picture of

Skytap, Devops, and the British Invasion

  • Posted on: April 28, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
It’s official; Skytap has officially expanded into Europe! We’ve got outstanding boots on the ground with Chris Griggs, our new VP of Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Rick Cronin, our new Technical Director – both based in our new EMEA headquarters in London. Chris and Rick have extensive experience of having worked in

The Impact of Trust on the Success and Failure of DevOps

  • Posted on: April 6, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
We sat down with Paul Farrall, Skytap’s new VP of Operations, and the president-elect of SIM Seattle, to discuss his successes and failures within his own DevOps initiatives. His experience helps prove the importance of trust between teams. SIM Seattle will host the 2015 Seattle Technology Leadership Summit on May 20th. Noel: Hi Paul! Let’s dive right in.

Consulting Initiative to Guide Enterprise Development and DevOps Adoption

  • Posted on: March 5, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
We’re thrilled to announce that David Frost has joined Skytap as our vice president of professional services and support. David will expand our professional service offerings to include a new consulting initiative to guide Enterprise development and IT organizations through the adoption of DevOps best practices. I had the chance to sit down with David
Skytap Whitepaper Parallel Dev Test Cloud 2015

New Whitepaper Pretty Much Says It All

  • Posted on: February 27, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
We’ve been covering every aspect of the software development lifecycle here, but this new Skytap paper, “Transform your SDLC with Parallel Dev & Test in Cloud Environments” pretty much covers everything you’d need to know about how constraints in software delivery are resolved in public and hybrid cloud environments. Download a free copy of this