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ALM Summit 3 – Expertise Worth Sharing

  • Posted on: January 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
This year’s ALM Summit runs January 29 to 31, and features keynotes and sessions by Microsoft executive and industry experts, as well as three focused breakout tracks: ALM Leadership, Agile Development, and new this year DevOps and Testing. Also returning is an update to last year’s popular full-time Hands-On Lab featuring self-guided tutorials on Team

Accelerate BDT Workflows with the Skytap Automation Pack

  • Posted on: January 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Agile development and testing methodologies enable businesses to accelerate the delivery of new software products to market. While some cloud services have attempted to provide a foundation for these Agile environments, they often require sacrifices from the development and test teams. Many cloud providers operate at the basic infrastructure-as-a-service level, which typically requires an up-front

The Impact of the Cloud on Virtual Training

  • Posted on: January 28, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Recently on TrainingIndustry.com, I talked about trends in enterprise training. Not only is training moving to the cloud, but the ideas of on-demand and automation have taken on whole new meanings. Enterprises are discovering that a cloud-based, virtual training solution doesn’t just save ample amounts of time, it can even generate revenue. From the article:

Your Guide to Replacing VMware Lab Manager

  • Posted on: January 21, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In the wake of VMware’s decision to discontinue vCenter Lab Manager, our new guide examines the benefits and considerations of various replacement strategies. The guide mentions the risks involved with continuing to use unsupported software, and details how VMware’s recommended replacement, vCloud Director, lacks much of the power and utility of Lab Manager. The guide

Create a Cloudera + Hadoop Cluster in Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: January 18, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
As you’ve likely heard, Skytap Cloud now offers a set of pre-configured templates that support Cloudera® and Apache™ Hadoop®. So for anyone who wants to try out the cluster—from small to large—it can now be easily accomplished in Skytap Cloud. The goal of this tutorial will be to spin up a 10-node cluster in Skytap

Tenable Scales its Virtual Training with Cloud Automation, Part 2

  • Posted on: January 17, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
In Part 1 of the Tenable case study, we learned that as the training demand at Tenable Network Security grew rapidly, IT could no longer effectively service the Training Organization, so the business needed to look for alternatives. After exploring its options, Tenable chose to support its training classes using Skytap Cloud. The result is

Skytap Adds Templates to Public Library to Support Cloudera and Hadoop

  • Posted on: January 16, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Pre-configured enterprise templates that support Cloudera® and Apache™ Hadoop® are now available in the Skytap Cloud public template library. With this release, our enterprise customers gain on-demand, self-service access to Cloudera’s open source distribution of Apache Hadoop, including the Cloudera Enterprise free edition, which can be used to deploy and manage physical or virtual clusters

Tenable Scales its Virtual Training with Cloud Automation, Part 1

  • Posted on: January 15, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Founded in 2002, Tenable Network Security developed its Unified Security Monitoring platform based on the company’s award-winning Nessus scanner for securing enterprise networks worldwide. Nessus is the most widely distributed and utilized vulnerability scanner in the world. The company makes Nessus available to the general public as a free download and provides updates for the

Running a Successful Cloud Trial

  • Posted on: December 26, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Once you’ve made the critical decision that it’s time to partner with a cloud service provider, you will want to test the product with a trial. And to get prepared for the trial itself, there are several best practices that teams can implement. Things like setting your success criteria up front, putting together a schedule

Sales Engineers: Own Your Time and Leverage the Cloud

  • Posted on: December 20, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
If you’re a sales engineer, you’re likely responsible for everything technical when selling your product or service. You work hand-in-hand with a sales counterpart, but let’s be honest—your load doesn’t feel any lighter. And since it’s the end of the year, you’re solely focused on closing that big deal. You barely have time to think—let

Does Cloud Computing Really Need Marketers?

  • Posted on: December 17, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Think about the engineering behind something like a cell phone. Most people see the value and use the technology every day, yet have little interest in the complex underpinnings that enable their devices. Beyond the science, even the execution of the technology is an elaborate undertaking. Consider this: Alexander Graham Bell received his patent on

Best Practices for Choosing a Cloud Service Provider

  • Posted on: December 12, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Today we’re revisiting our series on the topic of choosing a cloud service provider. Many cloud providers have a hands-off approach to partnering with customers—so Alex Burreson, our West Coast Sales Manager, has provided his list of key questions to ask and successful habits to employ when making this crucial decision for your organization. There