Cloud computing is a game-changing capability that can improve business agility and reduce costs. By adopting Skytap's technology, we've streamlined our own business and gained leading-edge skills to help our clients adopt cloud services.- Tony Rojas, President, Slalom Consulting
Accelerate Application Migration Projects. Downgrade Your IT Hassles.
- Test New Application Versions in Production-Like Virtual Data Centers
- Run Multiple Usability and User Acceptance Tests in Parallel
- Validate Application and Database Integrations
Moving from one version of an application such as Microsoft SharePoint, Lotus Domino, ERP or a legacy application to the next version is a complex challenge. Your business users require a hands-on experience to evaluate how the new functionality will fit their business process. You are challenged by IT budget and hardware and software resources required to deliver that holistic experience.
This creates a huge dilemma for IT developers and consultants: How do you deliver the rich migration experience your business users require, while lowering IT costs and resources?
Skytap's Application Migration solution resolves this dilemma.
Skytap's Application Migration solution empowers IT developers and consulting organizations to migrate to newer versions of ERP, SharePoint, Exchange, Lotus Domino or any home grown application without requiring any code changes. Skytap is a native cloud service, so you can create entire Virtual Data Centers (VDC), including clustering and fail-over support using a web UI in just minutes. Skytap provides a high fidelity migration environment that is secure and easily accessible by your business users and clients.
At the same time, IT managers and engagement managers get the visibility and control they need to centrally manage application images, usage and security policies.
Skytap's Application Migration solution can be used for a broad range of application migration scenarios, including:
- Lotus Domino, Microsoft SharePoint, or Microsoft Exchange Migration Labs
- Home Grown Legacy Application or ERP Migration Labs
- Application Customization Development and Testing Environments
- Business User Assessment and Acceptance Testing
- New Application Roll-out Training
Top 5 Features and Benefits at a Glance
| Feature | Key Benefit |
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| Application and Image Library With Multi-machine Virtual Data Centers | Accelerate Application Migration Projects
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| Remote Access Console | Provide Rich, Hands On Migration Experience
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| Advanced Networks; Virtual Private Clouds | Test New Application Versions In Production Like Virtual Data Centers
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| Projects, Groups and Roles | Enable Collaboration and Increase Productivity
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| Quota, Usage Limits and Auto-Suspend | Align Cloud Usage And Costs with Business Goals
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| And More... | Register for a complete demo and satisfy your curiosity. |
Accelerate Application Migration with Skytap's Cloud Library
Using the Skytap Cloud Automation Platform, you can create a centralized library of multi-machine virtual data centers that can run SharePoint, Lotus, Exchange, ERP or any home grown application without any code changes. IT developers and consultants can use Skytap to provision new migration environments and run multiple usability and functional acceptance test sessions concurrently. Because Skytap is a cloud native service, you can deploy these environments instantly and customize and scale the machine configurations as per your application needs. Once a migration is completed, environments can be deleted, or saved for archival purposes, with the click of a mouse button.
Provide a Rich, Hands-On Migration Experience with Skytap Remote Access Console
Business users can access their own application instances using Skytap Remote Access Console (a browser based client) from any location with internet connectivity. This feature enables migration environments typically delivered using physical hardware to be transformed into a web based virtual environment. Your users get a "hands on" experience and spend more time validating the newer version without travel or the constraints of a physical lab. The same console also provides IT developers and consultants with an "over the shoulder" view of the entire virtual environment, including the user view. They can start, stop, view and suspend migration sessions and collaborate with users to maximize their understanding of usability and functional acceptance evaluations.
Test Your Applications in Production-Like Virtual Data Centers with Advanced Networks and Virtual Private Clouds
With Skytap's Application Migration solution developing a multi-tier application with clustering and fail-over support is remarkably easy. You can create multiple networks in each configuration, add multiple network adapters to each virtual machine, connect them to different networks, configure routing policies and ensure you have an accurate depiction of production environments while you develop and test. You can create a Virtual Private Cloud for each migration project by connecting your customized migration instances to specific ERP systems using Skytap Connect (IPSec VPN tunnel) and show the full value of your new solution. Advanced networking configurations can also be saved as templates for safe keeping or rapid re-deployment.
Enable Collaboration with Projects, Groups and Roles
Using Skytap's Projects, Groups and Roles features, IT developers and consultants can create different groups of users, and share cloud resources via Projects. Project teams with multiple members can collaborate to create, review and approve new features in the application version to which you are migrating. Each team member can be provided a specific role in the system with specific permissions to view, edit, change or publish application changes.
Align Cloud Usage with Business Goals Using Usage Quota and Auto-Suspend
Using the Skytap Application Migration solution, you can provide complete VDCs to different migration teams who can scale up and down resources as needed. You can assign role and project specific quotas and restrict usage that is not consistent with business goals and you will only pay for what you use. VDCs can be configured to suspend automatically when not in use and you can review cloud usage to audit individual user, group or project level actions. This feature gives you the complete visibility and control you need to align your costs and usage with critical business goals.
Download the "A Buyers Guide to Choosing a Cloud Service Provider" to learn more about critical requirements for and how IT developers and consultants can benefit.