Skytap, a Kyndryl company, continues its global expansion today with the opening of the first of two data centers in Microsoft Azure Australia data centers. Located in Sydney, the new Skytap on Azure region is designed to meet Australia’s growing enterprise demand for running IBM Power Systems in Azure.
Introduced in 2020 with availability in Azure’s US East region, Skytap on Azure is one of the market’s only infrastructure-as-a-service purpose-built to run IBM Power workloads natively in Azure. Since then, Skytap has continued expansion to meet increasing demand with today’s opening marking the 9th Skytap on Azure region globally.
In Australia, the accelerating interest in infrastructure-as-a-service for Power workloads is expected to continue. According to Statista, the public cloud is expected to show an annual growth rate (CAGR 2024-2029) of 18.5% resulting in a market volume of $29.67 billion by 2029.
Nearly five years since its introduction, Skytap on Azure is providing enterprises a gateway to benefits well beyond cloud scalability, agility, high availability, and disaster recovery. “Skytap customers are connecting legacy applications to Azure native services such as artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), security and accelerated devops,” stated Brad Schick, Vice President. “These value enhancements are further accelerating enterprise interest in moving traditional workloads to the cloud and delivering competitive advantages for those modernizing IT infrastructure.”
Skytap’s expansion plans will continue in 2025 with new regions planned in Japan and Canada, and additional capacity in the U.S. and India. “Enterprise demand for running specialized workloads in the cloud continues to increase globally,” stated Lee Jiles, Director. “We’re eager to provide more enterprises with a simple and much needed path to the cloud for their IBM Power workloads.”
Learn more about Skytap on Azure.
