Case Studies

When building a new partner network, ASG Technologies had the difficult but critical task of getting partners to understand, place and implement its product suites. Skytap enabled ASG to train and properly equip partners’ salespeople, pre-sales engineers, and technical consultants with the knowledge needed.

Global retailer, SPAR, migrates to Skytap on Azure to ensure business continuity despite civil unrest. Thanks to the immediate response from cloud migration experts, SPAR’s 10 business-critical IBM i LPARs were quickly and remotely migrated to Skytap on Azure. Now SPAR can continue to modernize its workloads and advance its digital transformation strategy while saving costs.

With no easy recovery option for a business-critical legacy ERP system running on outdated IBM Power hardware, TCM Living faced the risk of significant disruption in the event of a disaster recovery (DR) scenario. Working with Northdoor, the company has successfully created a native DR instance within Skytap on the Azure cloud, facilitating rapid recovery without the need for ongoing investments in new on-premises hardware.

Under a time crunch and after a major acquisition, Skytap and Meridian IT helped Rivus migrate IBM Power to the Azure cloud with minimal disruption while boosting performance and productivity by 25%.

Faced with its previous internal training solution’s end-of-life, global software company Quest had to find a new way to support its complex training needs.

Running on aging hardware over a decade old and no longer supported by IBM, Clear Channel Italy needed to migrate its AS/400 production workloads to Azure, ideally with minimal change and business disruption. Clear Channel Italy migrated its legacy AS/400 workloads to Skytap on Azure seamlessly and without business disruption, gaining peace of mind knowing that it is no longer at risk from continuing to run its legacy workloads on old, difficult to replace hardware.

Facing high demand from sales engineers and staffed with a lean sales enablement team, Commvault needed to find a way to provide hundreds of high-quality product demos per week as well as support virtual sales enablement labs at large-scale seller training events. By using Skytap Virtual IT Labs, Commvault can support its sales engineers’ high demand for sales demos and POCs, as well as large-scale seller training events, with easy-to-scale, cost-efficient environment templates no matter where users are in the world.

Facing a data center exit as part of its broader cloud strategy, a multinational oil and gas company looked to migrate mission-critical J.D. Edwards-based IBM i (AS/400) workloads to the cloud. By working with Skytap, the company successfully eliminated data center costs while gaining cloud scalability.

Under a tight deadline, Skytap helped Intertek-PSI “lift and shift” its IBM Power-based ERP and other critical business applications from an existing service provider into the cloud with minimal downtime and without impacting users or increasing costs.

Training delivery was 66% faster with greater reliability and ease of use. Customer satisfaction soared, and the company was able to easily support a sudden shift to nearly 95% virtual training.

Skytap helped Zscaler grow from tens to hundreds of students in support of their corporate mission to double conference training attendance every year.

Delphix used Skytap to test DataOps platform on IBM Power Systems to advance customer engagement.