Category: Production Workloads

How Skytap, templates, and cloning can jump-start your enterprise’s AI journey

  • Posted on: January 30, 2024
  • Author: Tony Perez
There are two broad classifications of AI regarding who consumes it. Consumer AI and Enterprise AI. Consumer AI aids individuals. Everyone has heard about ChatGPT. Enterprise AI serves organizations by automating business processes and analyzing large, complex data sets, requiring a scalable architecture and seamless integration with existing systems.

How can we accelerate and simplify your cloud journey for specialized workloads to Azure?

  • Posted on: September 26, 2023
  • Author: Sarah Allen
This is a question we constantly ask ourselves at Skytap. Our specialty is providing a platform for Azure customers to host workloads within Azure’s data centers that otherwise wouldn’t run on Azure hardware. The most common operating systems that I speak to customers about as a Cloud Solutions Architect here at Skytap are AIX and
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The Rise of the Super Cloud and What it Means for Specialized Workloads

  • Posted on: September 12, 2023
  • Author: Tony Perez
A pragmatic approach to including “stubborn” legacy or specialty applications into an evolving cloud ecosystem. First came “the cloud,” and IT embraced and consumed it. For many companies, this evolved into hybrid-cloud due to business requirements such as meeting regulatory and data sovereignty requirements, leveraging paid-for on-premises technology investments, and addressing requirements for low latency,

A User-Centered Approach to Achieving Seamless Workload Migrations

  • Posted on: April 11, 2023
  • Author: Nadine Zein
Production workloads are essential for the smooth functioning of an organization’s operations. Today’s businesses rely heavily on critical applications, data, and services such as enterprise resource planning systems, customer-facing websites, scale-out applications, and database management systems. However, the challenge for many businesses is to modernize their legacy applications to remain competitive in the market. Legacy

IT legacy application modernization: the gap between aspiration and execution

  • Posted on: February 20, 2023
  • Author: Steven Hunt
Many of you are likely aware of the recent story of Southwest Airlines’ terrible flight cancellation and scheduling crisis during the winter holidays. Skytap Cloud Solutions Architect Tony Perez even wrote about a blog about how the airline could benefit from a lift-and-shift to the multi-cloud, then refactor to solve this issue and avoid similar

.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.

Using Microsoft Azure Data Box for migration of IBM i workloads to Skytap

  • Posted on: November 18, 2022
  • Author: Richard Field
Skytap partners closely with Microsoft Azure to provide the ability to host IBM Power IBM i (AS/400, iSeries) and AIX application workloads in the cloud. As a Cloud Solutions Architect (or Pre-Sales Engineer), I talk to many customers every day who say they want to move their ‘legacy’ applications running on these platforms onto the

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

IBM i 7.5 – Paving the Way for Innovation

  • Posted on: May 25, 2022
  • Author: Mayank Kumar
Overview:  In today’s rapidly evolving computing environment, IBM i still continues to be a strategic asset for enterprises and one of the most secure server platforms ever seen. Dating back to 1988, AS/400, or its modern version, i Series, has followed a secure data-centric open-source model, catering to newer workloads like social and mobile applications,

The Shortcut to the Cloud for Your IBM AIX and IBM i LPARs

  • Posted on: May 12, 2022
  • Author: Tony Perez
You’ve decided to move your IBM Power resources to the cloud, congratulations! You made that decision because you recognize the benefits that the cloud provides to legacy systems. One of these three reasons probably motivated you to make that decision: 1) You are moving other non-Power systems based on x86 to the cloud, so it

How to control costs for IBM I licenses by moving to the cloud

  • Posted on: March 14, 2022
  • Author: Skytap
While IBM i has been around for a long time and has not changed much in a few decades, many key applications built on it are still being used today. Some even in critical business use, in healthcare, retail, flight reservation systems and banking. It is also well known that the way IBM i software