Private Clouds: Can You Have Your Cake and Eat It Too?
Thursday, 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 ...
5 Points To Make When Your CEO Cries Cloud
Monday, 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 ...
Skytap Brings Real-Time Team Collaboration and Role-Based Security Policies to the Cloud
Monday, 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 ...
Skytap vs. Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Skytap, Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »We often get the question about how Skytap stacks up against ‘Infrastructure-as-a-Service’ vendors. We’ve put together a quick summary of Skytap vs. Amazon EC2 vs. Azure vs. Rackspace so you can see how different we are, esp. for dynamic IT environments ...
Skytap’s ISV Customers Reach 100,000 Software Demo Milestone
Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »Today we announced that numerous software vendors, including Acresso, HP, OpenText, and SchemaLogic, have collectively delivered over 100,000 software demos and proof of concepts (POCs) to their customers using Skytap’s cloud platform. Similar to hosting an online meeting, Skytap allows customers ...
Surgient Exiting Its Hosting Business?
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »Articles today in the Austin Business Journal and virtualization.info seem to indicate Surgient is exiting its hosted service business. Trying to compete in both a packaged software and a 'SaaS' type business is rarely a great business strategy - each ...
