Monthly Archive: July 2008

Jul
24

Structure 08

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A few weeks back the Skytap team went to Structure 08 in San Francisco to hang out with the “who’s who” of cloud computing. We had two full days of meetings and showed off the latest features from Skytap Virtual Lab. I always enjoy trade shows as it’s a great way to meet customers and …

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Jul
16

Skytap on Scobleizer TV

Robert Scoble was in our offices recently. Check out the two videos he filmed on Skytap here and here: http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/demo-skytap-iphone-virtual-lab-testing-and-qa-enterprise-apps http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/seattles-skytap-lets-enterprises-remotely-manage-your-datacenter -Ian

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Jul
10

451 Report on Cloud Computing

William Fellows, a Principal Analyst, at 451 Group has just published a report on Cloud Computing. It’s one of the better reports I’ve seen and well worth a read (you can purchase it here). William defines clouds as having the following attributes: Clouds enforce the discipline of a retail model Clouds have APIs. If there …

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Jul
03

If You’re Not Shipping Software, You’re Drowning

Here on the Skytap engineering team, we recently switched to a monthly release cycle. Our aim is to iterate quickly, release every month, and loop back with customers to make sure we continue to delight them. To illustrate the benefits of such a rapid cycle, I’d like to make an aquatic analogy: Imagine a muddy …

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