Aug
25
VMWorld 2010 San Francisco is less than a week away and we are wrapping up our final preparations for the annual event that is sure not to disappoint. This year we will be arriving with a brand spanking new booth, free trial offers of Skytap Cloud, non stop product demo’s in the Skytap booth (#1432), …
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Aug
20
Software development and test engineers often argue about “that’s not really a bug” or “that’s not a blocker to ship”. But they all agree on one thing for sure: shipping the next cool, new release to market faster and doing it with style and quality is fun and exciting. Yet, the reality of crummy old …
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Aug
13
Join Skytap for a free webinar August 19, 2010 10:00 AM PDT and learn how engineering leaders at Oracle, Double-Take and Ellie Mae identified 3 core capabilities that would allow them to accelerate software release cycles using Skytap Cloud. Dr. Becky Hammons will share her best practices using Cloud environments for accelerating software development cycles. Most …
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Aug
06
We are making networking easy in Skytap Cloud – so easy that may be “cloudnetwork” jokes will become as fashionable as “lightbulb” jokes! All it takes is a couple of mouse clicks to create a realistic (meaning complex) application network topology. What we are seeing is that this power and simplicity has freed users from …
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Jul
26
Today we proudly announced that Deanne Harper, senior manager of Speech University at Nuance Communications, and our very own Sundar Raghavan, chief product and marketing officer at Skytap, will present at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference on July 28, 2010 in San Diego, CA. Both Harper and Raghavan will discuss real world applications for the cloud …
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Apr
01
According to some pundits, private clouds are on the rise. ComputerWorld recently heralded ‘Private clouds gain traction with early adopters’ and SearchCloudComputing predicted 2010 would be a big year for private cloud build-outs. However, from our experience talking with companies every day, we see enterprises are hot on the idea of private clouds, but not necessarily the …
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Mar
09
Skytap Inc., today announced it has added the Skytap Cloud™ to the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google’s recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. Skytap enables organizations to deploy enterprise applications unchanged in the cloud and collaborate securely with global teams. Using the Skytap Cloud, customers can reduce total cost by up to …
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2010/03/skytap-google-no-app-left-behind/
Feb
28
Today Skytap announced breakthrough network automation capabilities that simplify and accelerate the creation, migration and deployment of multi-tier enterprise applications in the cloud. These features empower IT organizations to create virtual data centers with advanced network topologies and enable functional users to deploy them with an easy-to-use, self-service interface. New capabilities include: Support for advanced, multi-tier …
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2010/02/network-automation-annoucement/
Feb
10
Phil Wainewright recently wrote an article in ZDNet that referenced IDC’s forecast that SaaS growth will surge by more than 40 percent in the current year. He highlighted one particularly interesting statement: “… the harsh economic climate will actually accelerate the growth prospects for the software as a service (SaaS) model as vendors position offerings …
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.skytap.com/2010/02/focus-on-%e2%80%98right-sized-zero-capex-alternatives%e2%80%99/
Jan
14
An excellent post from Alistair Croll today ‘Private Clouds Are A Fix, Not The Future’. Today we see companies moving low risk, dynamic workloads to the cloud, but as Alistair points out, in the not-so-distant-future, we’ll see a large chunk of IT capacity moving to providers than can provide more agility and cost savings than internal …
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