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Getting an Integration Back on Track in 90 Seconds—Cloud Style

  • Posted on: March 4, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Building integration packs often requires that partners work closely to bring their products together. However, trying to get both parties together on a schedule can be tricky. Any hiccups along the way can quickly evolve from a few hours of lost time into a seriously long delay, which equals a ton of time in lost

Skytap Team Heading to SharePoint TechCon in San Francisco

  • Posted on: March 4, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
The Skytap team is heading to SPTechCon in San Francisco March 5 and 6. The conference will be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. About the event: The SharePoint Technology Conference provides technical classes and tutorials for SharePoint administrators, IT professionals, business users, and developers. Attendees learn from the best SharePoint experts, including

Dr. Dobb’s Webinar – Cloud-Enabled ALM: Continuous Integration and Automated Testing

  • Posted on: March 1, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Enterprises today are looking for ways to accelerate their rate of innovation, increase revenues, and lower the costs of software development and delivery. Agile development and testing methodologies are increasingly being adopted as a central means to accelerate the delivery of new software products to market. To support this, many application lifecycle management (ALM) products

Channel 9: ALM Summit Presentation on Agile Testing

  • Posted on: February 28, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
On January 31, I visited the ALM Summit and participated in the Agile Testing presentation given by Anutthara Bharadwaj. Her presentation addressed how Agile testing is becoming mainstream in software development across organizations of varying nature—and what happens when organizations with large nested teams; compliance and regulatory needs; multiple release cadences; and complex multi-tiered applications

Five Best Practices For Creating Cloud-Enabled Software Development

  • Posted on: February 26, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Hundreds of enterprise customers are leveraging cloud computing to better enable their IT to be Agile and power Agile software development teams. Companies that have successfully implemented cloud-enabled software development have subscribed to the following five best practices when creating Agile infrastructure: 1. Don’t change the Agile process to fit your legacy infrastructure; change your

Brett Goodwin to Speak at CAMP IT on February 28

  • Posted on: February 21, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Since 1984, CAMP IT Conferences have produced events designed to help IT professionals understand new technologies and make the critical, strategic, and tactical decisions for their enterprises. CAMP IT’s speakers all have practical experience in their topic area, as well as excellent presentation skills. Over 29,000 enterprise IT executives, management and technical-staff representing over 5000

CIO: Top 15 Cities for Tech Startups

  • Posted on: February 19, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
​CIO just released its 15 top cities for tech startups, and Seattle is at the heart of the list. In fact, CIO reported in 2012 that Seattle is home to twice as many startups as the national average. “If you’re considering working for a tech startup or launching one of your own and need to

Is this the Start of a Hybrid Cloud Revolution?

  • Posted on: February 14, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Prepare yourself. Hybrid cloud is about to explode. At too many companies, new technology is adopted not because IT planned it or wanted it, but because they were forced into it. Luckily, there are solutions that are allowing IT to get ahead of the technology curve—hybrid cloud being one of them. Consider this: What if

New Windows 8 Enterprise x64 and Windows Server 2012 Templates

  • Posted on: February 11, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
We recently added a couple of new templates to the Skytap Cloud public template library. The first template is a new Windows 8 Enterprise x64. This is an x64 template to go along with our Windows 8 32-bit template. So while you may have been waiting around to see what’s what before trying Windows 8,

User Support Series: Skytap Cloud Basics

  • Posted on: February 6, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In the Skytap Cloud User Support series, we’re taking a close look at sections of the Skytap Help documentation. In this entry, we’ll cover Skytap Basics, which features an array of articles covering every main feature of Skytap Cloud. This will be the first stop for users looking for more information after going through Getting

Eating Our Own Dogfood The Skytap Development Environment

  • Posted on: February 4, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
If you’re a developer working on a scalable web application, you’ve had your share of frustrations maintaining a development stack. In a simple LAMP shop, you can get away with running an entire development stack on the same machine … until you need to test code involving load balancers, or test code that is expected

Achieve Agility Throughout the Development Lifecycle

  • Posted on: January 30, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Agile development is a goal that almost every development team shoots for these days. The more efficiently a team can deliver a product, the faster customers can gain access to it—and the faster the organization can generate revenue. But Agile development doesn’t just mean developers coding things faster. Every link along the delivery chain has