Category Archive: News

Sep
28

Skytap Announces Worldwide Resell Agreement with SAVVIS

Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based infrastructure solutions, today announced a strategic alliance with SAVVIS Inc., a global leader in IT infrastructure services for business applications, to resell Skytap’s Virtual Lab service. The alliance enables SAVVIS customers to quickly and cost effectively conduct software development and testing in the cloud using Skytap’s Virtual Lab …

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Sep
15

Skytap Showcases ‘Hybrid’ Cloud Service and Joins VMware vCloud Initiative

Today at VMworld in Las Vegas, Skytap, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based virtual infrastructure solutions announced it has joined the VMware vCloud Initiative to participate in developing an integrated set of services via standard APIs to allow the seamless extension of traditional IT into the cloud. Skytap’s existing cloud-based Virtual Lab platform enables organizations …

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Sep
10

Skytap Delivers API to Enable ‘Hybrid’ Cloud Computing

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Sep
10

Skytap Expands Virtual Lab Platform with Online Training Solution

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Jun
24

CohesiveFT Delivers Elastic Servers to Skytap’s Cloud-Based Platform

Exciting news – we announced today at Structure 08 a technology partnership to make Cohesive’s Elastic Servers available in Skytap’s Virtual Lab platform! The combined solution will provide application development and test teams the capability to dynamically assemble and deploy custom application stacks to our virtual test cloud. For the details, see the press release.

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2008/06/cohesiveft-delivers-elastic-servers-to-skytap%e2%80%99s-cloud-based-platform/

Jun
06

VMware prepares to enter the cloud computing market

Virtualization.info posted an article today showing the 5 stages of virtualization adoption predicted by VMware. They call out Skytap and Desktone as two leading companies that are already delivering stage 5 capabilities -Ian

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Jun
05

On-Site vs. Cloud Blog Discussion

Dan Kusnetzky from ZDNet recently posted an article on his blog listing various vendors that provide test lab and IT prototyping functionality. It’s an interesting debate and we’re obviously big advocates of using a cloud-based service for a number of reasons: – No on-site management of hardware – Dramtically reduced administrative overhead – It’s more …

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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2008/06/on-site-vs-cloud-blog-discussion/

May
09

Skytap Virtual Lab Nominated for “Best Virtual Lab Automation”

We just got nominated for ‘Best Virtual Lab Automation’ solution for the SYS-CON’s Virtualization Journal Virtualization Readers’ Choice Awards. SYS-CON’s Readers’ Choice Awards, also known as the “Oscars of the Software Industry” has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade. This year’s virtualization awards will be given in …

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Apr
10

Skytap Announcement

April 10th is an exciting day for the Skytap team. Today, we’ve done 3 things: We’ve officially launched and rebranded the company, coming out of ‘stealth’ as a cloud-based virtualization solution provider; We’ve announced availability for our first product Skytap Virtual Lab; and We’ve launched our new website so folks can learn about what we …

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