Category: Partner Blogs

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

.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.
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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

Skytap on Azure – Networking Considerations

  • Posted on: May 6, 2022
  • Author: Skytap
Recently, Microsoft’s Adam Stuart, an Azure Networking Specialist, worked with Skytap to put together some Azure Networking considerations regarding how to connect your mainframe and midrange systems to Azure via Skytap on Azure when planning a cloud migration. These considerations included some best practices when designing your networking especially since many of these systems are

Skytap Virtual Labs Enable IBM’s First Remote Fast Start 2021

  • Posted on: May 21, 2021
  • Author: Skytap
Since 2017, IBM has used Skytap to support its Instructor-Led Training (ILT) and sales demo activity for Fast Start. Fast Start is IBM’s annual conference to showcase new product solutions and train its technical seller community and partner network.  This year was the first time IBM ran the event entirely online, which drew more than

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

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

Guest Blog: Did WannaCrypt Wreck My Demo Infrastructure?

  • Posted on: May 31, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
Security in the cloud will likely always be a hot topic of conversation, especially when there are global events like the recent WannaCrypt ransomware attack. IBM principal architect Erik Anderson recently addressed his responsibility for delivering “a reliable platform available for hundreds of other IBMers” in the midst of attacks like these, and the role

Can’t Miss List for IBM InterConnect 2017

  • Posted on: March 13, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
IBM InterConnect is right around the corner, and for those of you lucky enough to attend, how do you decide which of the week’s 2,000+(!) sessions and activities to take part in? We’ve scoured the entire agenda and picked out some of the events that we’re most excited about in hopes of helping you build out

NBCUniversal Code Quality Improved by “Orders of Magnitude”

  • Posted on: August 15, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
IBM recently hosted a webinar with NBCUniversal DevOps platform manager John Comas to talk about some of the changes that have taken place after prioritizing environmental access and efficiency. We’ve pulled out some of the highlights that stood out to us, but we encourage you to view the webinar as a whole, which can be

Partner Spotlight: Skytap and IBM SoftLayer

  • Posted on: February 2, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Running a global cloud service that handles the highly variable workloads of software development, testing and training is no simple feat. Launching new Skytap datacenters where customers need them most — for instance, in Sydney, Australia — is essential to continued growth. In today’s Partner Spotlight, Skytap VP of IT Operations Paul Farrall talks about how

“Testing Agility in the Cloud” Featured in LogiGear Magazine

  • Posted on: December 15, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap Sr. Director of Product Management, Sumit Mehrotra, presented his session, “Faster, Higher, Stronger – Achieving Olympian Aspirations of Agile Testing with the Cloud” at the 2015 STeP-IN Summit in Bangalore, India, and when it was all said and done—he took home the award for “Best Technical Track Speaker.” We’ll be releasing a video of Sumit’s

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