CohesiveFT Delivers Elastic Servers to Skytap’s Cloud-Based Platform
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »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 ...
Barriers to cloud computing adoption
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing, Skytap | No Comments »Despite all the benefits of cloud computing, there are some barriers to adoption. A recent panel on cloud computing at Interop 08 in Las Vegas, highlighted security and interoperability with in-house systems as key concerns for enterprises considering cloud computing. This ...
The benefits of cloud computing
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »So, what are the benefits of cloud computing and why are organizations adopting these services? First and foremost for many is potential cost reduction and amortization. With a cloud computing solution, the customer does not have a big upfront capital ...
Behind the buzz – what is cloud computing?
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing, Skytap | No Comments »Why the buzz? There is an incredible buzz around cloud computing recently, with major articles in Business Week, InfoWorld, CIO.com and numerous other publications, blogs and analyst reports. Nicholas Carr has written a bestselling book on the topic called "The Big ...
Eight Steps to a Virtualized Test Environment
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Events | No Comments »Better Software Conference and Expo, The Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevada Our CTO, John Janakiraman, is delivering a session tomorrow on the 'Eight Steps to a Virtualized Test Environment'. If you are at the conference, be sure to attend - it's ...
Application Development and Eco-Efficient IT
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »There's been a lot of hype around the need for "Green IT" and how computing usage affects the environment. The 451 Group published an excellent report summarizing how IT impacts the environment and actually shows that IT's greenhouse-gas contributions are ...
VMware prepares to enter the cloud computing market
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »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
On-Site vs. Cloud Blog Discussion
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing, News | No Comments »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 ...
Skytap featured in ‘Agile Crosses the Chasm at STAREAST 2008′ video
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Skytap | No Comments »Skytap's Steve Brodie is featured in 'Agile Crosses the Chasm at STAREAST 2008' video Check it out here.
