Skytap Talks Hybrid To Go Deep Into The Enterprise Market
Skytap (see previous CloudAve coverage), Seattle based company focussed on cloud automation, today announced a move towards Hybrid clouds, clearly aiming to take advantage of the enterprise interest in hybrid clouds. They announced a set of security and usability features which will allow enterprise customers to create and deploy hybrid clouds very fast. As more [...]
Skytap Secures $10 Million Series C Funding
Image via CrunchBase Skytap (see previous CloudAve coverage), seattle based cloud automation provider, today announced that they have secured a Series C round of $10 Million. This marks a bright start to IaaS market in 2011 which I expect to grow strongly this year. This round is led by OpenView Venture Partners with participation from [...]
Rightscale Adds Dev & Test Support To Beef Up Their Offering
Rightscale (See CloudAve’s previous coverage of Rightscale), the leading cloud management company, today announced their support for Development and Testing in the cloud. This is one feature that was lacking in Rightscale as they try to push themselves hard in the enterprise cloud marketplace. Skytap, the company that was focussing on Labs play earlier, has [...]
Skytap Adds Enterprise Features During Their Evolution Towards Cloud Automation
Skytap, the Seattle based company which was originally focussed on Lab automation, has announced some features more suitable for enterprise customers. Enterprises today are much more open to cloud adoption than, say, one year back. Slowly, companies focussing on infrastructure are adding more and more features that will make their offering more attractive to enterprises. [...]
The Apps In The Google Apps Marketplace
Last evening Google unveiled Google Apps Marketplace, an one-stop shop for SaaS business applications that are tightly integrated with Google Apps. Zoli covered the launch from Google Event and Ben did some analysis from the SMB perspective. I am going to take a different approach and cover some of the launch partners from the cloud [...]
Virtual Private Cloud Market Gets Crowded
Last week, Amazon announced the release of Virtual Private Cloud targeted towards the enterprises. Well, I am not going to the debate whether it is actually a virtual private cloud or not but, rather, talk about a couple of other offerings in this space. This announcement by Amazon may not get the big enterprise players [...]
Skytap Helps Even Enterprises Not Keen On Clouds
The first step taken by reluctant enterprises towards Cloud Computing is to move their testing environment to the Clouds. There is a competitive marketplace shaping up in this niche. Skytap and VMlogix are two companies in this space and we have already spoken about them here at Cloud Ave. They are the cloud enablers for [...]
VMLogix Enters The Cloud Game With Virtual Lab Automation
VMLogix, the company that helps IT organizations consolidate and automate their lab infrastructure using virtualization technologies, is jumping into the Cloud Computing bandwagon with the release of their VMLogix LabManager – Cloud Edition. I have already written about a competing product called Skytap. VMLogix’s foray into this space makes the market competitive and also adds [...]
Skytap Takes Public Clouds Closer To The Enterprises
Skytap, the Seattle based Cloud vendor operating since 2006, made an announcement today about a new release of their product which will help sweeten the public clouds for enterprise consumption. They have announced some new features related to the cost control and policy enforcement. These features have the potential to tame the Cloud to suit [...]
Savvis jumps into the SaaS bandwagon
Image via Wikipedia Managed hosting service provider, Savvis Inc., has made three significant announcements related to SaaS. They have jumped into the SaaS bandwagon by announcing a service for ISVs (Independent Software Vendors). They are leveraging the presence of their 29 data centers around the world, to offer a packaged plan that will help ISVs shift gears [...]
