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Customers typically want to consolidate their logging into a single platform, Azure lets you do this in Azure Monitor (or Azure Log Analytics Workspace) by using the Custom Logs option.

Hyperscale cloud is rapidly transforming business around the globe, driving growth and delivering new opportunities and new ways to expand and compete.

Follow this step-by-step Skytap guide for migrating your IBM i LPAR.

As more organizations adopt a multi-cloud strategy, enterprises are in search of the right cloud services to best suit business and application needs, while avoiding vendor lock-in. Gartner predicts, “By 2021, over 75% of midsize and large organizations will have adopted a multi-cloud and/or hybrid IT strategy.” Which is why — in our mission to […]

At Skytap, we’re laser-focused on providing technology that makes our customers’ more  productive. We’re committed to ensuring that IT teams can keep up with the fast-evolving demands of business. It’s a world of cloud and apps and environments. But behind all the tech are real people making it happen. Though we know the diverse talent […]

In recent months, tech has become enamored with the latest in a long line of cloud buzzwords, in this case a hyphenate — multi-cloud. Multi-cloud is a good strategy — for all the reasons everyone is already talking about — flexibility, avoiding lock-in, using best of breed solutions, and so on. In fact, we’ve been […]

The tech industry has “thought leadership syndrome.” It’s a culture so intent on pontificating that we end up jumping to the “next big thing” before we ever master the current thing. Take containers as a prime example. We haven’t even come close to mainstream container adoption, in large part, because there are still so many […]

Ask any nostalgist and they’ll tell you they don’t make things like they used to. Purchase a TV thirty years ago and you’d know it would last for many years. It seems applications developed back in the day also had staying power. I was speaking with a business the other day who said they were […]

During the past year, buzz around the latest tech du jour — serverless computing — has created a false sense of imminence and urgency for enterprise: embrace serverless now or become antiquated. But it’s time for a reality check. It rarely comes up in my meetings with enterprise IT teams and even serverless evangelists admit […]

My colleague Jonathan recently kicked off a recurring blog series about our internal adoption and use of Docker containers and Kubernetes. His post gave a brief history of how we came to introduce these technologies as part of ongoing modernization, and detailed how we addressed people and process changes along the way. In this post, I’m going […]

Digital transformation is the tech industry’s biggest buzzword. It’s also the emptiest. Plastered on marketing materials, embedded in mission statements. But devoid of clarity or prescription. To undergo digital transformation suggests a finite, technology-driven process with clear intent and outcome — this is a fallacy. The often-overlooked truth is that digital transformation isn’t just about […]

Skytap executives recently sat down with various media outlets to share insight into our business, customers and their backgrounds. Our CFO Frank Colich spent time with the CFO Thought Leadership podcast recounting his unique path to becoming a CFO, advice for aspiring finance executives, and insight into how Skytap runs our business. Meanwhile, our CEO […]