Increasing Enterprise Demand for Cloud-Based Development and Test Environments Fuels Record Growth for Skytap
Skytap Ranked 105th Fastest Growing Company on Deloitte's 2014 Technology Fast 500(TM)
(firmenpresse) - SEATTLE, WA -- (Marketwired) -- 11/13/14 -- ., the leading provider of on-demand Environments as a Service, today announced it is on track to double its revenue this year. This follows record growth in the number of bookings and size of deals, which are up significantly in comparison to last year. Skytap's customer base has expanded to include more than 275 enterprise and mid-market customers. To date, customers have launched more than 2.7 million environments. The company has also doubled in size in the last year, increasing headcount from 53 to 105 employees.
Skytap's dedication to its customers and partners has landed the company high rankings on a bevy of key industry lists including: Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 List where it ranked 105th with a growth rate of 1,141 percent; The of cloud computing software development influencers and innovators alongside Google, OpenStack, and VMWare; and .
Skytap attributes its rapid growth to enterprises becoming strategically ready to adopt cloud to more rapidly build, test, and release higher quality software. Skytap enables enterprises to improve the agility of their dev/test teams and immediately overcome today's principal software development constraint -- a lack of complete dev/test infrastructure that can be quickly spun up or down based on demand. Gartner forecasts that the application development market will surpass $9.78 billion(1) by the end of this year, which will continue to present a tremendous market opportunity for Skytap heading into 2015.
"We are seeing rapidly increasing demand for public cloud services within the enterprise, in particular for development and QA environments," said Thor Culverhouse, CEO of Skytap. "We anticipate our growth will continue to steadily climb in the coming year as we aggressively expand our partner ecosystems and empower enterprises in their journey to reach new levels of innovation and differentiation with the cloud."
Also driving Skytap's strong performance is the company's ongoing commitment to meeting the evolving needs of enterprise customers. Skytap most recently introduced a continuous delivery solution, which automates the provisioning of complex enterprise application environments built with . In March, it announced the addition of , which provides an intuitive interface for users allowing enterprise dev/test teams to spin up environments on parity with their production deployment. Additionally, the company has expanded globally to support on-demand deployment of IT environments across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region with the introduction of its .
Skytap continues to broaden its network of partners, and introduce joint go-to-market programs that enable a diverse range of partners to maximize shared business opportunities for cloud services. The company introduced its last January and has forged a growing base of strategic partnerships with companies such as , , , , , , , , , and .
(1)Gartner, Forecast: Enterprise Software Markets, Worldwide, 2011-2018, 1Q14 Update, Laurie Wurster, Yanna Dharmasthira, Chad Eschinger, et al., March 14, 2014.
Skytap provides Environments-as-a-Service (EaaS) to transform the software development lifecycle and help customers deliver better software, faster. Today's enterprise is challenged to continuously deliver new customer-facing applications, while overcoming increasing change and complexity in IT infrastructures. Our customers use Skytap to manage, share, deploy and decommission on-demand environments that contain everything needed to collaborate at each phase of the SDLC, without unnecessary costs and project delays due to manual configuration and dependencies. Enterprise IT organizations maintain full visibility and cost control, while allowing dev and test teams to self-provision labs and share complex environments with ease, for a lasting boost to agile DevOps initiatives. To try Skytap and learn more, visit .
Melissa Boggs
Barokas Public Relations
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