Category: Company News

Successful modernization is progressive and multi-faceted

  • Posted on: November 14, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
Every week there’s a new cloud service or product, which the industry immediately classifies using a set of overly-simplistic labels — public, private, hybrid, and so on. The jargon takes center stage, while the actual value of the technology is obscured and left unclear to the business and IT leaders who need to understand it

Extending VMware’s capabilities with Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: August 24, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is attending VMworld 2017 next week, and we’ll have our largest presence yet at one of IT’s most notable conferences. Looking at the VMworld 2017 agenda, it’s clear attendees understand IT modernization is vital to business success in the digital economy. Skytap Cloud was designed specifically for modernizing applications at the heart of enterprises and we’re

Why We’re Pursuing a Significant, But Overlooked Market

  • Posted on: August 22, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
In August 2006, Amazon posted a one-paragraph announcement that it was launching something called Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to bring computing power to the cloud. EC2 joined its recently-launched cloud storage service, S3, to set in motion what would become AWS. The rest is widely-covered history. What’s been less covered is a segment of the market that

Dynamically Multiplexing Disposable Production Environment Clones

  • Posted on: June 28, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
We recently discussed a set of usability enhancements for our internal test environments. During the course of this work, we discovered a subset of problems which couldn’t be solved with environment configuration alone. Specifically, we require external infrastructure if we want to provide a single domain as an endpoint for all test environments, if we

How Skytap Cloud Makes Creating Production Clones Ridiculously Easy

  • Posted on: June 21, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
In previous blog posts, we covered Jenga (our environment construction tool) and did a deep dive into how we use Jenga as a component in delivering fully functional clones of our production environment. We’re very happy with this delivery pipeline, and the test environments it produces. Our engineers always have up-to-date templates for development or

Container Management and Enterprise Adoption Go Big at DockerCon17

  • Posted on: April 11, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is headed to DockerCon in Austin, Texas next week, and we wanted to share some of the places where you can check out Skytap’s powerful new container management offering, how you can register for our “Docker, DevOps, and Reality” panel and cocktail party, and some of the week’s incredible sessions that we’re most looking
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Skytap Details Key to Enterprise Cloud Adoption at IBM InterConnect

  • Posted on: April 3, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap had a huge presence around IBM InterConnect this year. From our booth in the expo, to the party we threw with IBM at The House of Blues, it was great to talk with so many attendees about changing business needs, expectations, and the major challenges in software delivery today. One challenge that we heard

Can’t Miss List for IBM InterConnect 2017

  • Posted on: March 13, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
IBM InterConnect is right around the corner, and for those of you lucky enough to attend, how do you decide which of the week’s 2,000+(!) sessions and activities to take part in? We’ve scoured the entire agenda and picked out some of the events that we’re most excited about in hopes of helping you build out

Introducing the only Cloud for AIX

  • Posted on: March 1, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
In our three-part series on AIX’s role in the tech world today, we’ve covered how AIX is still a pillar in the enterprise, and where organizations often struggle with providing complete test coverage across AIX dependencies. Today we conclude our series with the announcement of the first and only cloud solution that enables IT to

The Culture, Trust, and Technology Needed for DevOps Success

  • Posted on: January 27, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
In “Strategies to Build Trust in DevOps,” Skytap VP of Operations, Paul Farrall, Paul shares some of his experience in the early days of DevOps initiatives and what’s required to give teams the best chance for success in their efforts. I love that Paul is willing to point out that his first attempt a DevOps
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Skytap to Host Burns Night Application Modernisation Executive Dinner

  • Posted on: January 11, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is proud to host our upcoming application modernisation executive dinner, which will be held on 25 January at The Balmoral in Edinburgh, Scotland. This event will not only give attendees the opportunity to celebrate Burns Night while networking with peers over dinner and drinks, there will also be an opportunity to participate in an

How Skytap Complements, not Competes with, Puppet and Chef

  • Posted on: October 17, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is occasionally asked if our cloud overlaps with provisioning and deployment tools like Puppet, Chef, OpenStack Heat, etc. Given Skytap’s ability to make complete clones of working virtual data centers, the confusion is understandable. While Skytap and provisioning tools do have some conceptual overlap, their roles are distinct in practice and are actually best