Skytap Releases Advanced Cloud Networking Features
November 15, 2012
Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
In many ways, the weakest link in cloud computing is the network. No matter how powerful your cloud hardware and software are, they’re useless without a secure and flexible network to hold the different pieces of the cloud together. That’s why it’s unsurprising to see cloud vendors such as Skytap, which has introduced new multi-VPN functionality for its hybrid cloud services, working on next-generation networking solutions for the cloud.
Skytap, which was founded in 2006 (and adopted its current name in 2008), counts about 225 enterprise customers ranging in size from Fortune 500 organizations to smaller companies of a few hundred employees each. They also represent a wide swath of different types of businesses, according to to Brett Goodwin, Skytap’s vice president of Marketing & Business Development…
Skytayp’s main product, Skytap Cloud, was introduced in 2008, at the beginning of the cloud-computing revolution. Since then, the company has focused on providing “enterprises as well as midmarket companies a fast and secure way to create flexible computing environments in the cloud,” said Goodwin, who outlined Skytap’s newest features in a recent phone interview…
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