Skytap, Inc. is a private company based in Seattle, Washington offering a public service for cloud computing.

Skytap provides self-service access to environments for learning, developing, testing, training, and running enterprise applications.

[3] Illumita was founded by Brian Bershad, Hank Levy, and Steve Gribble, a trio of University of Washington professors who had done research on virtualization and cloud computing, and by graduate student David Richardson.

[9] In August 2019, Thor Culverhouse stepped down as CEO and former CTO Bradley Schick has been tapped as his replacement.

Skytap uses a browser-based interface for all system management, and hosts a library of pre-configured virtual machine images.