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SAVVIS To Resell Skytap’s Virtual Lab service, Seals Alliance With Parallels

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Skytap today announced a strategic alliance with SAVVIS, provider of IT infrastructure services for business applications, to resell Skytap’s Virtual Lab service.

Skytap Virtual Lab provides virtualized infrastructure, including hardware, storage and networking resources. Customers get access to a complete virtual lab solution on demand including a pre-populated virtual machine library with major operating systems, databases and other application software.
SAVVIS also announced a business alliance with Parallels. The alliance enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to rapidly convert their single-tenancy applications to operate in a Software as a Service (SaaS) environment without having to re-architect their software.

Illumita Renames Itself To Skytap, Launches Skytap Virtual Lab And Appoints Scott Roza As CEO

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Seattle-based virtualization startup Illumita has changed its name to Skytap and unveiled details around its first product, dubbed Skytap Virtual Lab. The company was started as a project by University of Washington computer scientists.

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Skytap raised $6 million in Series A funding last summer from Madrona Venture Group, Ignition Partners, Bezos Expeditions and WRF Capital, and is now also announcing Scott Roza as CEO.

Roza, who joined the company earlier this year after stints at Hewlett Packard, iConclude and ADIC, said he was excited to work with some of the former board members from iConclude on “a product that sits at the crossroads of three hot areas of technology: virtualization, cloud computing and software as a service”.

Skytap Virtual Lab is a virtual lab automation solution available as a service over the Web. It enables application development and test teams to provision lab infrastructure on demand (including servers, software, networking and storage) and utilize a powerful virtual lab management application to automate the set-up, testing and tear down of complex, multi-tiered environments. It also gives distributed teams the capability to collaborate and rapidly resolve software defects using a virtual lab and virtual project environment.

“Skytap provides customers with cloud-based services that enable them to capitalize on the wave of virtualization technology sweeping the industry,” said Scott Roza, chief executive officer of Skytap. “Cloud computing is gaining traction because a growing percentage of companies are demanding solutions that deliver value quickly, scale with business need, and don’t have the risk of an in-house implementation. Skytap’s Virtual Lab, which combines cloud-based virtualized infrastructure with an industry leading lab automation application, has tremendous potential to improve the timely delivery of quality applications to the business while increasing lab efficiency and lowering cost.”

[Source: Seattlepi.com]