Tag: Virtual Lab Automation and Management

7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects – Part Two

  • Posted on: September 14, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Lat week we posted part one of our series: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects. This week we will cover habits 3 through 5. Habit #3: Empower your users with self-service & create internal evangelists As an IT architect, teams count on you to drive rapid innovation within your organization.  Cloud computing promises to

3 Cool Use Cases For The Cloud

  • Posted on: June 30, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
There are many use cases for the cloud and often times starting small is the best way to ensure success when transitioning projects to the cloud. Over the past several months, I have seen the cloud used to address some interesting IT and business challenges. The use cases below are small in comparison to the

Five Steps to Agile Development in the Cloud

  • Posted on: June 23, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Development and test teams are crunched for time just as much as they are crunched for resources. According to a recent survey, ‘developing applications faster’ is a top application delivery priority. The need for speed is amplified when employing an Agile cloud development methodology, as the approach calls for shorter release cycles focused on specific

Skytap to Deliver Cloud-Enabled Application Lifecycle Management With HP

  • Posted on: June 6, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Are you attending HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas? If so, be sure to swing by the Skytap booth (#531) and learn how companies like HP, Google, Ellie Mae, Double-Take, LANDesk, Calypso, and hundreds more are using Skytap to move development and test projects to the cloud. With Skytap you can provide cloud testing capabilities that

Skytap to Deliver Cloud-Enabled Application Lifecycle Management With HP

  • Posted on: June 6, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Are you attending HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas? If so, be sure to swing by the Skytap booth (#531) and learn how companies like HP, Google, Ellie Mae, Double-Take, LANDesk, Calypso, and hundreds more are using Skytap to move development and test projects to the cloud. With Skytap you can provide cloud testing capabilities that

New Features Coming to Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: May 5, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
There are some new and exciting things coming to Skytap Cloud. We are constantly gathering feedback from our customers to help drive our innovation at Skytap. In our upcoming May Release new features targeted include: Large Sized Virtual Machines Users will now have the ability to run applications that have either heavy computational requirements, extremely large

EarthSoft Uses Skytap Cloud For Training and Help Desk Support

  • Posted on: April 25, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
EarthSoft uses Skytap cloud computing for Training and Help Desk support. In this Office Hour, EarthSoft CTO Dr. Mat Weaver demonstrates how Skytap helps EarthSoft and our clients. Skytap provides cloud environments from the ground up, so users can start immediately, scale as required, and de-provision resources that are no longer required.

5 Mistakes SMB’s Can Avoid When Moving to the Cloud

  • Posted on: April 14, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
As Featured On ReadWriteWeb.Com 1. Loving a Cloud before determining the problem you are trying to solve. Just move to the cloud. It’s easy right? As they say on TV…”To the Cloud!”. The fact is, moving to the cloud as an SMB can be both advantageous and overwhelming. Adopting cloud computing technology within your organization

A Cloud Mashup is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

  • Posted on: April 7, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
With Cloud Computing being offered by a variety of vendors to solve a range of problems, now more than ever it is very easy to combine clouds to solve your unique problems. Attempting to shoe horn your needs into one particular cloud offering that happens to solve one problem well and trying to apply it

Skytap Selected By AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 Private Company

  • Posted on: March 21, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap was selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 winner last week. The OnDemand 100 is made up of the top private on-demand and SaaS companies that are carving out the cloud computing landscape with fresh and innovative technology. Skytap has achieved this prestigious accolade for being the leading provider of self-service cloud automation

Cloud Freedom or Cloud Control? Why Not Both?

  • Posted on: March 1, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Let’s face it. As users, we all love the cloud model.  Cloud enables us with self-service freedom, on-demand resources and pay-as-you go flexibility. In a matter of minutes we can get access to cloud resources without too many constraints. That freedom leaves users wanting more. The proof of this adoption is evident in both market

Five Must Haves For A Successful Hybrid Cloud Implementation

  • Posted on: January 13, 2011
  • Author: Skytap
Businesses have spent millions of dollars to create optimized data centers that contain important business policies and corporate data. At the same time, functional users are racing to adopt the cloud model for application dev/test, migration, training and IT sandbox purposes. IT leaders are often faced with the pressures of enabling users with cloud based