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Skytap Virtual Labs Fuel IBM Fast Start

  • Posted on: May 19, 2020
  • Author: Skytap
Recently, Skytap’s virtual lab capabilities were the center point of IBM’s Fast Start summit. Held in three locations, IBM Fast Start is a global cloud summit drawing more than 8,000 attendees. At Fast Start, IBM employees and partners spend a week learning about developments in the ever-growing IBM Cloud product suite. Scale of Operations IBM

A Special Invitation for New Customers

  • Posted on: May 11, 2020
  • Author: Brad Schick
Covid-19 has significantly impacted every part of daily life – from the way our children learn, our communities remain connected, to how business continues to operate. Skytap is proud to have served companies of all sizes and industries for over a decade. The world is now changing in ways we couldn’t have imagined, and as circumstances

Skytap wins 2020 IBM Cloud Embed Excellence Award

  • Posted on: May 6, 2020
  • Author: Skytap
We are very proud to announce that Skytap won the IBM Cloud, Data & AI award for Embed Excellence — during the first-ever virtual IBM Think conference on May 5, 2020. IBM’s Cloud, Data & AI Excellence awards recognize the stellar performance of IBM Business Partners who have demonstrated excellence and drive exceptional client experiences and business

Skytap on IBM Cloud now Available in Frankfurt

  • Posted on: April 29, 2020
  • Author: Skytap
We are pleased to announce Skytap on IBM Cloud is now available in IBM Cloud’s Frankfurt data center. The expansion of Skytap to Frankfurt includes support for running traditional x86 applications. Skytap x86 is also available in Dallas, Ashburn, Toronto, London, and Singapore data centers. Skytap Power is available in Dallas, Toronto, and London. Read

Linux on Power Export Scripts

  • Posted on: March 10, 2020
  • Author: Matt Lindahl
Skytap has been supporting Power hardware in our cloud for a while now, but with the recent addition to support to Linux on Power, we’ve seen an increased interested for more ways to migrate Linux LPARs into Skytap.

IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i

  • Posted on: February 25, 2020
  • Author: Skytap
How to configure geographic mirroring between two nodes This post explains how to configure a basic two-node geographic mirroring environment within Skytap with an example. One of the best guides I have found for geographic mirroring is IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i: Using Geographic Mirroring. With the increasing business demands for application availability, enterprises are

Power and Terraform Enhancements

  • Posted on: February 4, 2020
  • Author: Skytap
I’m excited to share two new updates for the Skytap Platform today. They improve our customers’ ability to manage large IBM Power workloads and add more features to our Terraform provider.
Skytap Live: January 28

You’re Invited! Join Us for Skytap Live

  • Posted on: January 14, 2020
  • Author: Michael Wachal
Save the Date: January 28, 2021 You’re invited! Join us for Skytap Live, an online event open to all Skytap customers. Hear about advancements to the Skytap platform made over the last year and about our 2021 roadmap. Agenda Time (PST) Event Speaker 8:00 AM (20 mins.) Welcome Keynote Brad Schick 8:20 AM (20 mins.)

Sending Skytap Platform logs to Azure Monitor

  • Posted on: January 6, 2020
  • Author: Skytap
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.

Red Hat OpenShift and Skytap

  • Posted on: December 5, 2019
  • Author: Skytap
Hyperscale cloud is rapidly transforming business around the globe, driving growth and delivering new opportunities and new ways to expand and compete.

Introducing the Skytap Provider for HashiCorp Terraform

  • Posted on: February 10, 2019
  • Author: Skytap
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

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