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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 …

Why You Need to Transition Your IT Sandbox Environments to the Cloud

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:45:08 +0000

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 …

Keeping the Cloud Under Control

admin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:10:18 +0000

It’s no surprise that enterprises are continuing to increase their reliance on cloud computing. Users are ripe to take advantage of the cloud’s undeniable benefits including self-service freedom, flexibility, availability, scalability, and the simple joy of not having challenges related to hardware and software deployments. However, many business leaders have expressed concern about the security …

Three Reasons Why DevOps and the Cloud are Perfect for Business Success

admin — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:58:38 +0000

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 …

New Features Coming to Skytap Cloud

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 12:16:37 +0000

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 …

EarthSoft Uses Skytap Cloud For Training and Help Desk Support

admin — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:36:07 +0000

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.

Join Skytap at STAR EAST 2011 Software Testing Analysis & Review

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:07:40 +0000

Skytap is proud to be a Gold Sponsor for this year’s Star East Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference in Orlando, FL. Star East is the premier software testing conference that brings the most up-to-date information, tools, and technologies available in the industry today. Join Skytap and other industry experts May 1-6 in Orlando, FL …

A Cloud Mashup is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:00:34 +0000

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 …

3 Critical Questions to Ask Regarding Cloud Security

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:00:40 +0000

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 …

Demystifying SaaS, PaaS and IaaS

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:14:10 +0000

Cloud computing can be broken down into roughly three categories. Many of us use simple cloud services on a daily basis without even realizing it, while enterprise customers utilize the cloud to host their entire infrastructure. Some cloud platforms offer a mix of proprietary development and applications, while others are simply subscription-based services. To designate …