By moving traditional workloads to Azure, companies can extend the capabilities of applications that are crucial to the business, ensure business continuity, and spur innovation.

By using Skytap to move traditional workloads to IBM Cloud, companies can enhance development, provide virtual hands-on labs and demos, and ensure business continuity.

With a clear path to the cloud, IBM i applications stand to make the greatest gains from DevTestOps automation, including agile software delivery, increased disaster recovery capabilities and reduced downtime. Deploy and test complete IBM i applications in Skytap directly from Azure deployed DevOps platform, quickly and simply, and scale down after use.

Skytap Virtual IT Labs provides a virtual environment with demo and POC capabilities to ensure your business can build compelling, hands-on sales demos that showcase your product effectively. The intuitive lab environments provide the resources necessary to display your products and show customers the value you can offer them.

Skytap Virtual IT Labs empowers users to create virtual classrooms to train employees, partners, and even prospective and current customers. Whether you’re looking to create virtual instructor-led or self-paced training, Skytap makes it easy to deliver high-quality training environments, without the help of IT.

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Migrate and run IBM i production workloads natively in Azure with Skytap and
protect them with high availability/disaster recovery from Assure MIMIX.

Skytap provides you with the support level best-suited to your business requirements at each stage of your Skytap journey. Plans are designed to scale with your business as you increase cloud adoption and plan for future use cases. Choose from Standard, Developer, Enterprise or Platinum.

Skytap understands that business-critical systems require more than just occasional support. That’s why our Platinum Support offering includes a Technical Account Manager (TAM). Learn more about how Skytap TAMs can benefit your organization.

Curious how you can run IBM i and AIX workloads as-is natively in Azure? Let Skytap be your guide. Our expert Services Delivery Team will lead your organization through a 4-week proof-of-concept to accelerate your IBM Power in the cloud journey.

Adopting cloud transformation strategies and adjusting business operations can present challenges, such as transitioning investments in IBM Power-based workloads to the cloud without costly or lengthy refactoring efforts. With Skytap on Azure, organizations can gain cloud-scale benefits while modernizing mission-critical applications, with no rebuilding efforts, quickly and easily.

With Skytap on Azure, you can minimize the latency between traditional workloads and those running natively on Azure. You also can enhance traditional applications to extract more value from your data with Azure services—including Azure Synapse, AI/ML and Azure SQL—and more easily integrate traditional and Azure native applications.