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Skytap Cloud Recognized as 2011 Products of the Year Winner

apinter — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:00:38 +0000

SEATTLE, Wash. – January 16, 2012 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that the Skytap Cloud was named a 2011 Product of the Year winner by TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com in the Virtualization Management category. For the second consecutive year, Skytap was recognized for its self-service simplicity, as well as …

Skytap Announces Compliance with SSAE (SOC 1) Standards

apinter — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:56 +0000

SEATTLE, Wash. – January 9, 2012 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that it has completed an examination in conformity with the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16, Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization. The SSAE 16 audit effectively replaces SAS 70 as the …

Skytap Announces Over One Million Virtual Machines Launched

apinter — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:38 +0000

SEATTLE, Wash. – January 9, 2011 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that over one million virtual machines (VMs) have been launched by customers using its leading Skytap Cloud service. This represents a major milestone for Skytap, which provides businesses with an easy and secure way to create …

Cushman & Wakefield Selects Skytap to Build Development and Test Environments in the Cloud

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:00:14 +0000

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 …

As Lab Manager Goes Away….

admin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:59:20 +0000

The big VMWorld 2011 event in Las Vegas is over – fortunately, my hotel room was not left with a goat, Mike Tyson, a lion sleeping on the bed or anything of the sort. Or, at least, that I’m aware of. While it was a fantastic event, filled with a ton of excitement, the message …

Wrangling an out of control cloud with notification and usage limits

admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:43:02 +0000

Now that I’ve shifted the majority of my day-to-day workflow to the cloud it’s easier than ever to have custom environments for each project I’m working on. I still use Google Docs for most document creation and project tracking (lesson learned from an earlier hard drive failure) but for my demo environments, which involve complicated …

7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects – Part Three

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:00:32 +0000

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 …

7 Habits of Highly Effective Cloud Architects – Part Two

Nate Odell — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:00:42 +0000

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 …

Skytap Wins ‘Best of VMworld’ Award for Self-Service Hybrid Cloud Solution

admin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:00:51 +0000

A panel of experts at VMworld 2011 has awarded top honors to Skytap for innovation, performance and value. Skytap was selected by TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization as a “Best of VMworld 2011″ award winner in the public and hybrid cloud computing technologies category. The “Best of VMworld” awards program recognizes outstanding cloud computing and virtualization products and solutions released …

Business Technology Optimization (BTO) and the Hybrid Cloud

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:11:20 +0000

When I was a pre-sales engineer at Mercury (before the HP acquisition), we had coined an acronym called BTO, or Business Technology Optimization. BTO essentially defined a new category of products and services that helped align IT and IT Operations with the needs of the business. Mercury got acquired by HP soon after, which caused …