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Skytap To Discuss Cloud Economics & Licensing At Burton Group Catalyst Conference

July 26th, 2010 Posted in Events, Skytap, Uncategorized | No Comments »

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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Private Clouds: Can You Have Your Cake and Eat It Too?

April 1st, 2010 Posted in Skytap, Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »

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 reality. [...]

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Skytap + Google = No App Left Behind

March 9th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing, Releases, Skytap | No Comments »

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 [...]

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Network Automation Announcement

February 28th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing, Releases, Skytap | No Comments »

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 [...]

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Focus on ‘right-sized, zero-CAPEX alternatives’

February 10th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »

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 as [...]

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Repost: Private Clouds Are A Fix, Not The Future

January 14th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »

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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5 Points To Make When Your CEO Cries Cloud

January 11th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing, Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »

I saw an interesting article today in Information Week (click here to view) discussing how to respond to execs when they ask what your cloud strategy is. We’re seeing many companies come to us after a CEO and/or CIO has pushed their teams to think how cloud computing can be used in their organization. A good [...]

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2010 Cloud Computing Predictions: The Year of Realism

November 24th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »

2010 Cloud Computing Predictions: The Year of Realism
The buzz around cloud computing reached fever pitch this year, culminating in Gartner placing cloud computing at the peak of its hype cycle in July. We saw controversy around the Open Cloud Manifesto, the federal government getting into cloud computing with apps.gov, and almost every IT vendor trying to put a cloud [...]

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Are All Clouds Equal and Ready for Enterprise IT Workloads?

November 9th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »

Lots of enterprises are evaluating external clouds, such as Skytap and Amazon EC2, to off-load their dynamic IT workloads. Top candidates include dev/test, IT prototyping and application migration environments. These can account for 35% or more of IT infrastructure and offer immediate opportunities for cost savings because (1) they are often underutilized due to uneven [...]

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Skytap Brings Real-Time Team Collaboration and Role-Based Security Policies to the Cloud

November 9th, 2009 Posted in Skytap, Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »

Today we announced the release of innovative new capabilities that enable users to collaborate over the Web using cloud-based virtual data centers (VDCs). In the same way solutions such as SharePoint and WebEx enable teams to collaborate on documents, Skytap enables teams to collaborate on complex IT environments to deliver business initiatives faster and more [...]

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