Category Archive: Cloud Computing
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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Skytap has been declared a finalist in the Seattle 2.0 Awards 2011. We have made it through the public nomination and have been selected as one of the top 5 most voted in the B2B Category by the Selection Committee. The Voting Panel is comprised of over 1,000 individuals who are involved with startups and will …
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One of the biggest barriers to Cloud Computing adoption is security…as it should be. When evaluating applications and/or use cases to move to the Cloud, one must ask themselves three fundamental questions. First, does the use case that I want to put in the Cloud make sense from a security perspective? Second, will the data …
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There is a ton of noise around Cloud Computing these days and it can be extremely confusing as to what it really is and how it can benefit your organization. I wanted to take a few moments to share with you how organizations can get started with the Cloud with three easy tips. First and …
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It is a widely accepted notion that the cloud brings immense power and scalability at the finger tips of developers and testers. However, a good measure of the utility of any platform or tooling for a developer/tester lies in the answer to a simple question: “How productive can I be in shipping a quality product …
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