1. We’ve officially launched and rebranded the company, coming out of ’stealth’ as a cloud-based virtualization solution provider;
2. We’ve announced availability for our first product Skytap Virtual Lab; and
3. We’ve launched our new website so folks can learn about what we have been doing.

The last few weeks have been busy for us. Not only have we been briefing a number of analysts and press, but we have also ramped up our interaction with a broader set of customers and have seen our enthusiastic beta users transition into paying customers. As we all know, leads and prospects always ooh and ahh about great technology but the rubber doesn’t meet the road until they are actually willing to part with cash to pay for the solution. Given how many of our beta customers are finding real value in our solution, I can’t help but be excited about both our very cool technology and the opportunity to build a great cloud-based virtualization business.

There is a lot of hype around cloud computing and even the analysts are trying to figure out which way the wind will blow next. Here at Skytap we are initially focusing on delivering not only cloud-based compute power, but more importantly a powerful on-demand application for the application development and test community. We’ve found that our customers have a few key characteristics: (1) they are smart – we like smart customers; (2) they are early adopters of technology; (3) they constantly try to be more efficient and do more with less: (4) they get virtualization; (5) they need machines in many configurations for projects and other transient needs; (6) they constantly make trade-offs between application quality and what they can achieve with the resources they have. Given customer feedback so far, we feel there is a strong demand for a ‘Virtual Lab as a Service’ offering. Go ahead and check out some of our online demo material and read about how we help development and test teams ship better products faster. What we are doing is very unique and we don’t think you’ve seen anything quite like it before. We’d love your feedback to help us deliver a better product -you can reach me at sroza@skytap.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Let me know what you think!

Scott