Category: Cloud Trends

How to “Float” on the Multi-Cloud

  • Posted on: April 26, 2023
  • Author: Tony Perez
There is a lot of talk about “multi-cloud,” but trying to achieve that level of cloud diversity might be challenging for many organizations. If you are starting out in the cloud, instead of building cloud-specific expertise across multiple cloud providers, try to “float” across multiple clouds as much as possible. Here is how. First off,

A Tale of Two Cloud Transformations

  • Posted on: February 14, 2023
  • Author: Rahul Tripathi
Being engaged in the growth of cloud infrastructure for over a decade, I got to see and live through successes and failures of various cloud transformation journeys. Interestingly, two of them exemplify the spectrum of “pie in the sky” disappointment to “bang for the buck” impact. Both are large multi-billion dollar enterprises in the industrial

IBM Power 8 End of Support – What does it mean for you?

  • Posted on: January 31, 2023
  • Author: Randy Watson
As technology ages, it becomes increasingly costly to maintain and update. This is a very relatable scenario for anyone who uses technology. Take for example an 8-year-old iPad mini. Despite still being functional for basic tasks, it can no longer support the latest software and applications, and likely has slowing performance and shortened battery life.

Why Skytap has become the de facto cloud for AIX and IBM i

  • Posted on: January 24, 2023
  • Author: Jerry Crossfield
As CEO of a cloud migration services company, I guide enterprises each week on their digital transformation and the best path to the cloud. And over the past decade, the challenge that frequently surfaces is how to include legacy applications in the broader cloud transformation initiative. We’ve all seen how modern applications have migrated to

Using Azure NetApp Files with Power Systems in Skytap on Azure

  • Posted on: January 19, 2023
  • Author: Abhishek Jain
As a Cloud Solutions Architect at Skytap, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a variety of customers who are looking for robust and high-performance file storage solutions. One that has stood out to me as a particularly powerful option is Azure NetApp Files (ANF). Given my experience with this option, I wanted to share

IBM i Journal Caching

  • Posted on: January 17, 2023
  • Author: Randy Watson
IBM i journaling is a built-in optional feature of the operating system designed to track any change to a given object.  For example, a library, DB2 database, data queues, IFS (integrated file system), etc. The purpose of journaling is to be able to recover the object in the event of failure. Customers must create a journal
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Southwest needs a lift-and-shift to the multi-cloud, then refactor.

  • Posted on: January 10, 2023
  • Author: Tony Perez
Most of us have heard about the crisis Southwest Airlines had over the holidays. Most articles cite “problems related to legacy systems…” and “outdated scheduling software called SkySolver.” Though Southwest received a lot of attention from this incident and has offered affected customers loyalty points for the resulting disruptions, the legacy software problems encountered by

.NET 7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Power – What does it mean? 

  • Posted on: December 5, 2022
  • Author: Skytap
Unlocking this architecture’s development for Modern MS tools for any Power Linux OS is progress, PPC64LE repositories have languished regarding enabling things like PowerShell or .Net or other modern MS Tools, and will enable the current generation of developers to start leveraging their organization’s already established investments in Power architecture.

Don’t have a Cloud Strategy? You should still migrate one app to the Cloud

  • Posted on: November 15, 2022
  • Author: Tony Perez
“Cloud computing is in its beginning stages and will only continue to grow,” Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on June 28th, 2022. All organizations should be prepared for the ongoing growth of cloud computing. Even if your organization currently doesn’t have a comprehensive cloud strategy, regardless of the reason, there is
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Skytap and Azure Synapse enable quick data modernization for legacy workloads

  • Posted on: October 10, 2022
  • Author: Skytap
I was recently invited to write a blog for the Microsoft Tech Community detailing why an organization would use Skytap on Azure and Azure native analytics services to modernize legacy data. In that blog, I highlight some of the many business reasons compelling organizations to modernize their data. I also discuss the critical role legacy

The safest way to live test your ransomware, malware, virus defenses

  • Posted on: August 9, 2022
  • Author: Tony Perez
You aren’t going to release a live virus on your production system, so how do you test your defenses? In the article “The State of Ransomware in 2020“, research suggests that every 11 seconds, some business is being attacked by a cybercriminal. And in the report “The State of Ransomware 2021“, the frequency of attacks

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