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Reserve Capacity in Skytap on Azure gives you a way to significantly reduce the cost of your Skytap subscription when you have regular, concurrent usage of compute or storage resources.  Once you’ve determined the level of resource usage you maintain month over month, you can request Reserve Capacity directly from within your Skytap subscription by […]

Importing virtual machines (VMs) and logical partitions (LPARs) into Skytap is a key use case with customers importing hundreds of VMs each week. Moving VMs from on-premises into Skytap is an easy four step process:  High Level VM Import Process   We are excited to announce that we have enhanced the VM import to use […]

New executives will help Skytap further its mission of enabling customers to move traditional IBM Power applications to the cloud safely, quickly and easily.   Seattle, Wash – November 17, 2020 – Today Skytap announced two new members of its executive team: John Wrobel as Chief Revenue Officer and Kari Dickerson as Vice President of […]

Skytap is pleased to announce that we are on track to achieving compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 in Q4 2020. This will give Skytap customers a PCI DSS and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 compliant option to run traditional IBM Power workloads in Azure and IBM Cloud. Skytap now […]

Imagine, what if we had a feature to share VMs with each other without complexities?

Skytap on Azure is available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This blog post, and this video, will help you navigate the process of creating an instance of the Skytap on Azure service and logging into the service for the first time. Start the creation process like you do for all Marketplace offers: search for Skytap […]

Horrible events like the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Elijah McClain, and too many others provide a spotlight to motivate change. These events have helped us become more aware of injustice and inspire us to support our communities better. Increased awareness and initial responses are only the beginning, however. Real systemic change requires conscious […]

Ansible is a powerful IT automation engine that helps with cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and other IT needs through use of a simple declarative language in the form of Ansible Playbooks. In June this year, IBM announced the support for Ansible to manage IBM i instances through the Ansible Content for IBM Power […]

As the best cloud service for traditional applications, we are continually working to enhance features and functionality, especially for our IBM Power users. In the past few months, we’ve released a number of improved to help customers be more efficient with how they consume IBM Power in Skytap. Let’s take a peek at what’s new: […]

Recently, Skytap’s virtual lab capabilities were the center point of IBM’s Fast Start summit. Held in three locations, IBM Fast Start is a global cloud summit drawing more than 8,000 attendees. At Fast Start, IBM employees and partners spend a week learning about developments in the ever-growing IBM Cloud product suite. Scale of Operations IBM […]

Covid-19 has significantly impacted every part of daily life – from the way our children learn, our communities remain connected, to how business continues to operate. Skytap is proud to have served companies of all sizes and industries for over a decade. The world is now changing in ways we couldn’t have imagined, and as circumstances […]

We are very proud to announce that Skytap won the IBM Cloud, Data & AI award for Embed Excellence — during the first-ever virtual IBM Think conference on May 5, 2020. IBM’s Cloud, Data & AI Excellence awards recognize the stellar performance of IBM Business Partners who have demonstrated excellence and drive exceptional client experiences and business […]