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178:, and by graduate student David Richardson. Illumita changed its name to Skytap in 2008, and launched its first product, Skytap Virtual Lab, in April of the same year. Skytap received early funding from the Washington Research Foundation. As of 2011, the organization is funded by Insight Venture Partners, the 215:
Skytap is an enterprise service purpose-built for the development and testing of complex applications. Users can import existing virtualized applications or build new applications in the cloud. Environments can be accessed through any modern web browser,
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award in the public/hybrid cloud Computing Technologies category for Skytap Cloud, and the company has been named to annual top cloud computing provider lists from Deloitte, Geekwire, Seattle Business Magazine, and the Puget Sound Business Journal.
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images. Using either these images or their own imported VMs, users can create sharable configurations of one or more machines, and securely connect to active machines via a proprietary HTML5-based browser client.
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In March 2018, Skytap added John Ludeman to its leadership team as SVP of Engineering. Ludeman joined Skytap after 30 years of engineering experience at Microsoft.
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tool (Jenkins, Visual Studio TFS, etc.) Skytap uses a browser-based interface for all system management, and hosts a library of pre-configured
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Illumita was founded by Brian Bershad, Hank Levy, and Steve Gribble, a trio of University of Washington professors who had done research on
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In August 2019, Thor Culverhouse stepped down as CEO and former CTO Bradley Schick has been tapped as his replacement.
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to enable enterprises to migrate and modernize their core business applications. The company was purchased by
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Virtualization Roundup: Four Lab Managers Tested and Reviewed
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Skytap Raises $ 10 Million for Cloud Automation Solutions
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Private company
Seattle, Washington
cloud computing
www.skytap.com
Seattle, Washington
cloud computing
Skytap
IBM
Kyndryl
virtualization
cloud computing
Madrona Venture Group
Bezos Expeditions
VMworld
Kyndryl Holdings
REST
application programming interface
command-line interface
application lifecycle management
virtual machine
"Startup Pushes Virtual Labs as a Service"
PCWorld
"Seattle startup Skytap rents out virtual lab space to software developers"
The Seattle Times


"Kyndryl announces portfolio optimization actions"
"Skytap, Fresh Off Boston-Led $ 10M Financing, Seeks to Make Cloud Computing Work Better"
"Skytap Scores $ 10M More, Led by Boston Investor OpenView"

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