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 session W21 at 2.45pm.
Read the rest of this entry »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 relatively small when compared with other sources. However, its authors firmly believe that IT should [...]
Read the rest of this entry »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
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 reasons:
- No on-site management of hardware
- Dramtically reduced administrative overhead
- It’s more cost effective due [...]
Skytap’s Steve Brodie is featured in ‘Agile Crosses the Chasm at STAREAST 2008′ video
Check it out here.
Today we upgraded our production environment to the May ‘Limited Availability’ Release! We have made broad improvements across our product to make it easier, more reliable, more secure and even faster to use.
Here’s a list of enhancements included in the May Release:
Virtual Machines
1. CD Loader: Load a CD into your Virtual Machines [...]
We just got back from STAREAST in Orlando and had a great experience. We met a huge number of experienced QA and IT professionals and got lots of interest in our Virtual Lab service. We spent most of our time at the demo stations giving attendees a firsthand view of how it works.
Here are some [...]
We just got nominated for ‘Best Virtual Lab Automation’ solution for the SYS-CON’s Virtualization Journal Virtualization Readers’ Choice Awards. SYS-CON’s Readers’ Choice Awards, also known as the “Oscars of the Software Industry” has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade. This year’s virtualization awards will be given in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Today we renamed the company from illumita to Skytap. We made the
decision in December to rename the company because customers couldn’t
pronounce or remember illumita. They’d also often get it confused with
illuminati (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati) – not exactly what we were after. So off we went in search of a new name – here’s a few tips based [...]
April 10th is an exciting day for the Skytap team. Today, we’ve done 3 things:
We’ve officially launched and rebranded the company, coming out of ’stealth’ as a cloud-based virtualization solution provider;
We’ve announced availability for our first product Skytap Virtual Lab; and
We’ve launched our new website so folks can learn about what we have been [...]
