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Skytap CPTO Rahul Tripathi featured in HostingAdvice.com article

  • Posted on: April 9, 2024
  • Author: Sarah Duhon
At Skytap, our mission is to help businesses move and natively run their legacy systems in the public cloud with minimal change and effort. Rahul Tripathi, Skytap Chief Product and Technology Officer, spoke with HostingAdvice.com about Skytap’s infrastructure-as-a-service offering, the unparalleled benefits of the cloud, and Skytap’s connected community. “Many managed service providers only lift

Skytap and AI: An IBM Power VM Data Use Case You Can Begin Using Today

  • Posted on: March 20, 2024
  • Author: Sarah Duhon
Enterprise interest in AI has accelerated over the past year fueled by increased adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies to support intelligent and efficient data analysis and decision making. And with data at the core of successful AI strategies, you can understand why legacy systems, and the vast data they contain, continue to enter the

Creating a Skytap on Azure account from the Azure Marketplace

  • Posted on: March 1, 2024
  • Author: Michael Wachal
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. Before you start In order to subscribe to Skytap on Azure from the Marketplace,

How Skytap, templates, and cloning can jump-start your enterprise’s AI journey

  • Posted on: January 30, 2024
  • Author: Tony Perez
There are two broad classifications of AI regarding who consumes it. Consumer AI and Enterprise AI. Consumer AI aids individuals. Everyone has heard about ChatGPT. Enterprise AI serves organizations by automating business processes and analyzing large, complex data sets, requiring a scalable architecture and seamless integration with existing systems.

IBM Power 8 End of Support – What does it mean for you?

  • Posted on: January 11, 2024
  • Author: Randy Watson
As technology ages, it becomes increasingly costly to maintain and update. This is a very relatable scenario for anyone who uses technology. Take for example an 8-year-old iPad mini. Despite still being functional for basic tasks, it can no longer support the latest software and applications, and likely has slowing performance and shortened battery life.

Use your cloud migration to leave bad practices on-premises

  • Posted on: October 31, 2023
  • Author: Sarah Allen
Even when it’s a “lift-and-shift” of your legacy apps Changing environments in order to change behavior is widely studied as an effective approach, as intuitive as it seems. It makes sense then that changing the environment of your business IT operation from an on-premises datacenter to the cloud can serve as the catalyst for improving

Harnessing data in legacy systems for your GenAI strategy

  • Posted on: September 27, 2023
  • Author: Rahul Tripathi
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its latest evolution Generative AI (GenAI) are not only the hottest buzzwords in technology, but also likely the most transformational value drivers for businesses and people. We felt the same way for technology evolutions in mobile, social and cloud, which are now mainstream in society and the workplace. Hence, every business

How can we accelerate and simplify your cloud journey for specialized workloads to Azure?

  • Posted on: September 26, 2023
  • Author: Sarah Allen
This is a question we constantly ask ourselves at Skytap. Our specialty is providing a platform for Azure customers to host workloads within Azure’s data centers that otherwise wouldn’t run on Azure hardware. The most common operating systems that I speak to customers about as a Cloud Solutions Architect here at Skytap are AIX and

The Very Group Selects Skytap to Modernize its IBM Power Estate in Azure

  • Posted on: September 19, 2023
  • Author: Sarah Duhon
The Very Group, an online retail and digital payments business​, is modernizing and migrating applications and infrastructure with Skytap on Azure as a part of a wider digital transformation strategy. The retailer selected Skytap to modernize its IBM Power estate in Azure and support an enhanced customer experience. The Very Group has also partnered with

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