Tag: virtualization

What is promiscuous mode and why does it matter? 

  • Posted on: March 13, 2023
  • Author: Randy Courtright
It lets more network traffic through! That’s what promiscuous mode (or p-mode) does for the network card. It allows additional network traffic to the rest of the endpoint. What exactly do I mean by that and why does this need to happen sometimes? Here’s a quick overview of p-mode in both a traditional context for
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Demystifying SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS

  • Posted on: March 8, 2023
  • Author: Skytap
The technology industry is loaded with jargon. Often a result of trying to simplify complex concepts, the abbreviations, buzzwords, and blurred lines can confuse even tech veterans, let alone those new to enterprise tech. So, in hopes of adding some clarity to the conversation, we’ve written a high-level overview that defines the most popular cloud

Solving Change Constraints with Cloned Environments

  • Posted on: January 8, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
One of the constraints of conventional cloud infrastructure offerings is the requirement to develop within a predefined library of templates. For net-new development, this is not the set of handcuffs that it can be for migration of existing platforms to a cloud offering. However, for businesses trying to modernize atop existing product suites, this can be

The DevHops Podcast Episode 5: Service Virtualization at Alaska Airlines

  • Posted on: October 19, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
One of the most well-attended sessions of the week at STARWEST was Parasoft and Alaska Airlines‘ crack-of-dawn session on continuous testing through service virtualization. We got Alaska Airlines quality analyst Ryan Papineau to join us on the latest episode of the Skytap DevHops Podcast, so we could learn more about service virtualization’s role in the airline’s

How I Learned to Love Environment Proliferation

  • Posted on: September 24, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Software development is a strange craft. In some ways things seem to stay the same forever; we still sit at the same Unix command line from over 20 years ago and we use usually the same editors, but the software being developed feels pretty different. For one thing, we spend much more time selecting the

The Agile Application Delivery Trio

  • Posted on: May 27, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Join us on June 10th at 2pm Eastern/11am Pacific as we team up with Orasi and Delphix to present, “The Agile Application Delivery Trio: Testing, Data and Environments.” For one thing, there are no silver bullets, and simply equipping development and test teams in the cloud with more infrastructure may generate initial gains, but without

The DevHops Podcast: Will Virtualization Beat Physical Reality?

  • Posted on: April 29, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Welcome to the first ever episode of the DevHops Podcast! This series will feature conversations between some of the tech industry’s best and brightest around DevOps, agile, cloud, virtualization, and the necessary culture and technology to meet constantly changing business and customers demands. This week we’re joined by F5 Principal Technical evangelist Lori MacVittie, and Skytap

No Crystal Ball Needed: Jez Humble Shares Trick to Predicting High IT Performance

  • Posted on: February 21, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
​ It didn’t hit me until after a second viewing of Jez Humble’s recent webinar with Perforce that his ways to predict high IT performance aren’t just a neat party trick; they’re absolutely essential. The days of bugs making it into production, distrust between departments, and delayed fixes and releases are becoming a thing of

A love letter from Cloud Dev/Test Labs to Service Virtualization

  • Posted on: February 12, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, here’s a little love letter from “the Cloud” that originally appeared in our partner Parasoft’s perspective guide to Service Virtualization. But we think it’s especially appropriate now. Enjoy!​ – N.W., Ed. Dear SV, Hey, I know it’s been a while since we started being “a thing.” When we met,

A Resolution to Keep: Trimming Your SDLC Waste in 2015

  • Posted on: February 3, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Hats off to Parasoft’s Mark Lambert and our own Jason English for their recent webinar, “New Year’s Resolution: Trim Your Waste to Accelerate SDLC Velocity.” Holiday-themed online content can often be found for a dime a dozen and sadly, the cuteness of a clever title often exceeds the quality of the media itself. But Jason

Gene Kim on the Need for On-demand Access to Automated Dev/Test Environments

  • Posted on: December 9, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​Noel: Hello, this is Noel Wurst with Skytap, and I am speaking with Gene Kim today. At Skytap, a lot of us are big fans of Gene and his work, and we just finished reading The Phoenix Project, which we will talk about, as well as The DevOps Cookbook. I’m curious to know how that’s

How to Eliminate “It Works on My Machine”

  • Posted on: December 4, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​voke analyst Theresa Lanowitz and her team recently conducted an independent survey of over 500 participants from both technology and non-technology companies of varying sizes to explore their use of virtual and cloud-based labs and the results they experience. We conducted an interview with Theresa earlier this year where she detailed how these labs, and