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Is Agile a Prerequisite for Beginning DevOps Initiatives?

  • Posted on: December 10, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
As part of our ongoing technical series, “Scaling Modern Software Delivery,” we’re taking a look at the benefits of DevOps for organizations at various stages of agility. Skytap regional consulting manager Raksha Balasubramanyam shares some great advice for how to achieve early-stage DevOps benefits, and the executive buy-in needed to scale success. Noel: Is “being

Knocking Down our own Skytap Stack with “Jenga”

  • Posted on: December 9, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Today’s column is firmly in the column of “eating our own dog food” at Skytap. Specifically, how our own development and test teams use Skytap APIs to quickly automate the creation, provisioning and teardown of instant, production-like Skytap lab implementations, on Skytap – in conjunction with Puppet. Skytap engineers call the project “Jenga” which conveys

Managing Dev/Test Environments with Ansible Dynamic Inventory for Skytap

  • Posted on: December 7, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
We are pleased to announce our latest open-source release – a Dynamic Ansible Inventory for use with Skytap Environments. Ansible is commonly used by DevOps teams to coordinate configuration changes for hosts over SSH (for Linux/Unix machines) or Powershell remoting (Windows). Ansible’s simple approach and ease of integration with existing infrastructure make it an attractive utility

The Zorro Effect: Circling Back from CA World ‘15

  • Posted on: December 1, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Back from a productive week at CA World, the big CA Technologies summit in Las Vegas. I wasn’t using an app to count my steps like many there, but I am sure I put in thousands if only due to the sheer geographic size of the convention venue at Mandalay Bay. My partners in crime

LogiGear Provides Early Look at Better Test Design & Skytap Partnership

  • Posted on: November 20, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap thrives on partnering with our friends in the software development and testing community who share a passion for both disrupting and modernizing software delivery. Last week at STARWEST, I got to learn about the incredible team at LogiGear, how they’re tackling one of the biggest challenges in software testing today, and why the new

The DevHops Podcast Episode 6: DevOps Practices for Systems of Record

  • Posted on: November 18, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
It’s time for another episode of the DevHops Podcast! While at the 2015 DevOps Enterprise Summit—check out our recap of the entire show—Skytap DevOps consulting manager Kelly Looney and I recorded this episode with Accenture agile and DevOps lead Mirco Hering. Mirco was giving his “Adopting DevOps Practices for Systems of Record” session later in

CAworld 2015 Day “Zero” Report: Disruptingly Disruptive

  • Posted on: November 18, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
I’ve been here at CAworld’15 just getting set up to talk about environments prior to the main event days, and everywhere you look, you see the theme of the company this year: Digital Disruption. In CA CEO Mike Gregoire’s opening partner reception, he positioned competitiveness for businesses today as primarily driven by software. I think

The DevHops Podcast Episode 7: Digital Transformation with CA

  • Posted on: November 11, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
This week we sit down with Justin Vaughan-Brown, CA Technologies’ Global Digital Transformation Lead and Jason English, Skytap Galactic Head of Product Marketing to discuss digital transformation in the enterprise. What has led enterprises to make this transformation, what role do DevOps and agile play, and what are the benefits of modernization initiatives? We discuss all

Customer Success Series: Informatica’s Scalable Stellar Customer Experience

  • Posted on: November 10, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
We’re presenting a collection of stories on the awesome gains in scalability and efficiency, and reductions in costs and constraints that our customers shared with us at our recent Customer Advisory Board meeting. Informatica senior manager of global education services, Alex Gurevich quickly pointed out one of our favorite qualities of Skytap—that the benefits and

Continuous Delivery Decision Points: Getting Software Safely into Production

  • Posted on: November 10, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Consulting manager Kelly Looney is speaking this week at DevOps Days Detroit. We sat down with him to learn more about his session, and the evolving focus of DevOps that he and others have spotted. Noel: You’ve said that DevOps is evolving from focusing on build automation to full-on continuous delivery. What’s causing that evolution?

Customer Success Series: GE Healthcare Dramatically Expands Global Training

  • Posted on: November 6, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
At our most recent Customer Advisory Board meeting (see our CAB recap here), we sat down with Douglas McKelvey, Training and Services Readiness Manager at GE Healthcare, to learn how Skytap has helped his team increase the effectiveness of their training “100 fold” and take their classes for medical imaging software to a global audience.

Guest Post: 8 Software Testing Demons that Service Virtualization Can Exorcise

  • Posted on: October 28, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
This spooky Halloween-themed piece comes from our TAP partners at Parasoft. Check out their killer blog! Ever had a frightful encounter with the following testing demons? They tend to lurk around complex interconnected systems, just waiting to wreak havoc by forcing you to delay testing, work at dreadful hours, or make distressing trade-offs on the