Month: November 2021

Using Azure billing to view Skytap on Azure costs and usage

  • Posted on: November 22, 2021
  • Author: Michael Wachal
Overview Skytap on Azure is an Infrastructure as a Service offering that provides you with virtualized IBM Power systems computing resources as a managed service within Azure. Restrictions in the Azure Marketplace require that this be listed as a SaaS application, so it might not be obvious at first how to find your Skytap on

Join Us December 2 for “Moving IBM i to the Cloud – Top Myths and Facts”

  • Posted on: November 18, 2021
  • Author: Skytap
Moving IBM i to the Cloud – Top Myths and Facts Thu, Dec 2, 2021 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST Much has been written and said about IBM Power and the journey to the cloud. Does it have to be complicated? Can it be done without refactoring? The answers to these cloud migration questions

Introducing Skytap Live Clone: Copy and save environments while VMs are running

  • Posted on: November 5, 2021
  • Author: Skytap
Within Skytap, Environments and Templates are very important concepts. An Environment is an object that comprises one or more VMs, one or more networks, plus configuration settings and metadata. A Template is a read-only copy of an environment that can be used to back up critical environments and acts like a blueprint for new environments.