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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,

You’re Invited! Join Us for Skytap Live 2022

  • Posted on: February 23, 2022
  • Author: Skytap
Save the Date: March 23, 2022 8 am Pacific – 1 pm Pacific You’re invited! Join us for Skytap Live, an online event open to all Skytap customers. The event includes information about using Skytap Cloud as well as a peek at our 2022 roadmaps.   Topics 8:00 AM – Welcome and Keynote  Mike Wachal

Why Is Networking So Hard?

  • Posted on: February 3, 2022
  • Author: Skytap
What does travel planning have to do with networking? Skytap Principal Product Manager Colleen Hamilton discusses why networking is so hard & what to do about it with this insightful comparison.

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.

Creating a Self-managed Private Network Connection (PNC) with ExpressRoute in Skytap 

  • Posted on: September 9, 2021
  • Author: Skytap
One of the major challenges that customers face for cloud adoption is networking issues, particularly high network latency, which affects how fast data can be transferred from one location to another. These delays are not only frustrating to end-users but are costly to businesses.  Today, Skytap integrates with Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute to provide a standard 1 Gbps

Rational Tools now available on Skytap for IBMi customers

  • Posted on: August 20, 2021
  • Author: Skytap
IBM i customers on Skytap who run development and test workloads or those who require compilers for their applications when moving to Skytap can now license the Rational Development Tools package self-service from the Skytap Hardware Settings page, Licensing section. Clicking on the Edit icon, users can now specify how many users they’d like to

The Skytap on Azure (SoA) Hong Kong region is now available in the Azure Marketplace

  • Posted on: August 13, 2021
  • Author: Skytap
We’re happy to announce that the Skytap on Azure (SoA) Hong Kong region is now available in the Azure Marketplace and hosted in the Azure East Asia data center to help support our APAC customers. Customers may create new Skytap on Azure accounts or add this region to their existing Skytap on Azure accounts. For

Cloud Taxonomy for Non-Production Use Cases for the Cloud

  • Posted on: July 5, 2021
  • Author: Tony Perez
The following use cases are potential ways to use the cloud for non-production use cases. The key is to deliver “quickly” the infrastructure needed to perform a specific need or task. Waiting weeks for infrastructure delivery should be considered an “anti-pattern” since the cumulative time of waiting over the course of a project would be

Getting ready to move IBM Power workloads to the cloud

  • Posted on: June 28, 2021
  • Author: Skytap
As part of cloud and digital transformation initiatives, you may be taking a hard look at how to move your core business applications running on IBM Power Systems to the cloud. There are many reasons to migrate Power workloads to the cloud — improved flexibility and lower risk, cloud-native services that enhance core business applications,