Tag: Virtual Lab Automation and Management

Skytap’s new Copy-to-Region lets your SDLC “Follow the Moon”

  • Posted on: August 5, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
For the past few years, the holy grail of enterprise IT is to have large scale global software development, testing and integration activities that “follow the sun.” So when your development team checks in and goes home in San Jose, CA, there’s a testing team just getting started in Bangalore, India. And when they check

Theresa Lanowitz Teases Enterprise DevTest Survey Results

  • Posted on: August 1, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
At our recent Q3 Sales Kickoff, we were treated with a surprise session from Theresa Lanowitz, founder of technology industry analyst firm, voke. Regular visitors to our blog may recall an interview we did with Theresa back in February, where we discussed how the “next generation enterprise” is being fueled by “extreme automation.” What was so

[Video] SDLC Acceleration: Faster in What Direction?

  • Posted on: June 20, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​ At the 2014 SDLC Acceleration Summit, Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce.com, led a fantastic discussion panel that asked the question, “Sure, your SDLC is accelerating, but in what direction?” The panel addressed the biggest barriers to SDLC acceleration, how to overcome them, and what the real benefits are to truly delivering

Webinar On-Demand: The Software Virtualization Lifecycle

  • Posted on: June 18, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​A top focus for application development today is on acceleration, but faster is not always equal to better. The bigger challenge is to improve both the speed and quality of software releases.  Orasi, one of our close partners, recently presented a webinar titled, “Software Virtualization Technology. This webinar addressed combining service virtualization technology with cloud-based

Service Virtualization Expedites Testing; Enhances Quality

  • Posted on: June 13, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
This post was written by Orasi Sr. Solutions Architect Scott Jefferies and originally appeared on Orasi’s “Eye on Quality Assurance” blog. In December 2012, research firm Coleman Parkes released a landmark study about the business benefits of service virtualization. The findings were significant: 60% of the respondents indicated that unavailability of systems for testing routinely

Upcoming June Webinars

  • Posted on: June 11, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​We’ve got two webinars coming up in June that we wanted to take a minute to make you aware of. And while we encourage you to attend them live so that you have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have, each will be made available on-demand after the fact so that you and

Guest Post: [Infographic] SDLC Acceleration Summit Poll Results

  • Posted on: June 10, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
This post originally appeared on the Parasoft blog. ​At the 2014 SDLC Acceleration Summit in San Francisco, industry experts gathered to discuss the future of the SDLC and share best practices for delivering better software faster. Throughout the event, attendees participated in real-time “SDLC Pulse” polls to share their opinions about the current state of

Webinar On-Demand: Preparing for VMware Lab Manager End of Life

  • Posted on: May 28, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​ VMware’s Lab Manager has been an integral part of dev/test team workflows and processes for many years. As of May 2014, VMware has decided to end-of-life Lab Manager and this has left many customers scrambling to find a replacement or system to meet the needs currently served by Lab Manager. Lab Manager was such

Hey, Where Did My Lab Management Software Go?

  • Posted on: May 20, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​Remember the space called VLM? Virtual Lab Management? It was one of the next big things in IT about seven or eight years ago. If you could consolidate servers, desktop PCs, and software in VMs to make your data center way more efficient, why not virtualize all the development and test servers you need in

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

Theresa Lanowitz on Solving Age-Old Problems in the Enterprise

  • Posted on: February 26, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Noel: Hello, this is Noel Wurst with Skytap and I am speaking with Theresa Lanowitz today, who is the founder of voke. Theresa is going to be giving a keynote at this year’s STAREAST conference on May 8, in Orlando, Florida. The keynote is titled “Extreme Automation: Software Quality for the Next Generation Enterprise.” I wanted