Dec
12
Seattle, Wash. – December 12, 2011 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that Cushman & Wakefield, the world’s largest privately held real estate services firm operating in 230 global locations across 60 countries, has chosen to move its application development and test environments to the Skytap Cloud. Cushman …
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Sep
21
Lat week we posted part two of our series: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects. This week we will cover habits 6 and 7. Habit #6: Let your users share IT environments; be sure to manage user roles A big part of being agile in software development is the ability for developers, test engineers and support …
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/09/7-habits-of-highly-effective-cloud-architects-%e2%80%93-part-three/
Sep
14
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 …
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Sep
08
In today’s ever changing IT organization, many IT Architects are evaluating popular cloud services to manage their dynamic workloads. All too often they quickly discover that most popular cloud services present a thorny dilemma: Commodity infrastructure services offer scalability and low cost resources, but they require applications to be rewritten to proprietary formats and APIs …
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Jul
06
Today’s IT managers are facing a classic conundrum. On the one hand, we all recognize that IT sandbox environments are an emerging necessity. Companies increasingly need a place for dynamic workloads, such as migration and software evaluations, security testing, pre-production test beds, training sessions and IT labs. And yet, these IT sandbox environments typically aren’t …
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/07/here%e2%80%99s-why-you-need-to-transition-your-it-sandbox-environments-to-the-cloud/
Jun
23
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 development methodology, as the approach calls for shorter release cycles focused on specific customer …
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Jun
06
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/06/skytap-to-deliver-cloud-enabled-application-lifecycle-management-with-hp/
May
26
Original Post Can be found on ReadWriteWeb.Com here. Night and day. Science and art. 1s and 0s. For years now, software development teams and operations/system administrators have maintained this kind of yin and yang duality, pushing each other in opposing, but complementary, directions. We’re all familiar with the dynamic of the IT department. Typically, the …
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/05/three-reasons-why-devops-and-the-cloud-are-perfect-for-business-success/
Apr
14
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/04/5-mistakes-smbs-can-avoid-when-moving-to-the-cloud/
Apr
07
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2011/04/a-cloud-mashup-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts/
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