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Upcoming Technical Training Roundtables: You’re Invited!

  • Posted on: May 11, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is getting ready to hit the road to participate in B2B Learn: two roundtable discussions around today’s key trends, challenges, and best practices in technical training, and we’d love for you to join us! These sales-pitch-free events are an awesome opportunity to learn with your peers, Skytap principal product manager Seth Payne, and current training

Now Available: Secure and Scalable Docker Development

  • Posted on: May 2, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
As more organizations look to containerization for gains in software consistency and efficiency—questions around security often pop up. In the webinar below, we show how combining Twistlock and Skytap provide security and scalability in Docker development environments in particular. After a brief explanation of Skytap and Twistlock technologies, this presentation contains a demo that shows

The Case for Replicant Production

  • Posted on: April 29, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Software systems development has changed from being something we think of as an engineering and planning challenge, like building a building or a bridge, into a highly incremental and experimental process of constantly trying new things and seeing how they work or don’t work. The key to this new approach is to get valid feedback

Evaluating Application Modernization Solutions: Part III (Conclusion)

  • Posted on: April 28, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
In this final chapter of our three-part series, Sumit Mehrotra shows how Skytap provides the configuration, consistency, collaboration, and control necessary for application modernization initiatives—including microservices and containerization. Learn how this 4Cs framework can help you modernize your complete product lifecycle to ensure that quality code and speed are consistently delivered with each release. Make sure

Test Automation Reigns Supreme Next Week at STAREAST

  • Posted on: April 27, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is gearing up for next week’s STAREAST conference, and after looking closely at the week’s packed schedule of keynotes, tutorials, and concurrent session, it appears that “automation” is going to be one of the week’s dominating topics. And this won’t be the first time. We’ve attended and covered this show from a journalistic perspective

Every Action Counts: Skytap’s Sponsorship of Peace One Day

  • Posted on: April 21, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Since being founded by Jeremy Gilley in 1999, Peace One Day has achieved incredible success, including having the member states of the United Nations “unanimously adopt the first ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on 21 September – Peace Day.” By observing peace and contributing to its growth on this day each year, millions

Evaluating Application Modernization Solutions: Part II

  • Posted on: April 19, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Last week, we shared Part I of our three-part presentation, “Evaluating Application Modernization Solutions.” In this chapter, Skytap’s Sumit Mehrotra details how on-demand access to production-grade dev/test environments eliminates contention and costs associated with provisioning wait times, and enables teams to maintain configuration, consistency, collaboration, and control inside continuous integration.   Be sure and visit

Evaluating Application Modernization Solutions: Part I

  • Posted on: April 12, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
As enterprises continue to move their existing, traditional applications to the cloud, Skytap has helped smooth this migration by enabling our customers to quickly and easily collaborate around cloud-based development and test environments. By giving teams the ability to provision complex environments on-demand and with one-click access—all while giving IT full control and visibility into

Baking Quality into Virtual Training [Podcast]

  • Posted on: April 11, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
We talk all the time about the real cost of poor quality software making it to production, but what about the equally negative impact that poor quality can have in the delivery of virtual training? EnCompass senior instructional technology specialist, Nina Talley, sat down with us to share some actions that can—and should—be taken before your

Do Your eLearning Metrics Prove Business Impact? Why Not? [Podcast]

  • Posted on: April 1, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
For this week’s episode of The Skytap Virtual Training Podcast, we sat down with Clark Quinn at the 2016 Learning Solutions Conference and Expo after attending his session, “Measurement Matters: The How and Why of eLearning Metrics.” Learn why Clark believes “L&D has the opportunity to be the most valuable part of your business” and

Guest Post: Python Module for Skytap API

  • Posted on: March 31, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Our customers build some pretty amazing things, and we love promoting the work they do—especially when it’s open-source so that it can be used and made even better by others! Check out the Python module that Fulcrum Technologies uses to automate a variety of tasks around environment management and to monitor their Skytap consumption. The

On-demand Webinar: DevOps: An “El Niño” for Software Testing

  • Posted on: March 30, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
This full version of this article originally appeared on the Parasoft blog and was written by Cynthia Dunlop.  DevOps adoption across the enterprise is rising as rapidly as Northern California’s reservoirs after El Niño’s “March Miracle.” With DevOps, the constant deluge of new functionality undeniably creates a torrential disruption to traditional testing. Many teams are barely