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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 ...

The Cloud Wars: Who Will Win?

Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »

Today, Microsoft announced its Windows Azure cloud computing offering, further validating the market for cloud-based platforms. Given the multitude of major players in this market, including Amazon and Google, and the speed of innovation, we should see some major advances ...