Skytap Secures $18 Million Financing Package from Vistara Growth
Skytap has arranged access to $18 Million from Vistara Growth, a provider of flexible growth capital to software and technology-enabled services companies.
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You’re Invited! Join Us for Skytap Live 2022
Save the Date: March 23, 2022 8 am Pacific – 1 pm Pacific You’re invited! Join us for Skytap Live, an online event open to all Skytap customers. The event includes information about using Skytap Cloud as well as a peek at our 2022 roadmaps. Topics 8:00 AM – Welcome and Keynote Mike Wachal
Why Is Networking So Hard?
What does travel planning have to do with networking? Skytap Principal Product Manager Colleen Hamilton discusses why networking is so hard & what to do about it with this insightful comparison.
Join Us December 2 for “Moving IBM i to the Cloud – Top Myths and Facts”
Moving IBM i to the Cloud – Top Myths and Facts Thu, Dec 2, 2021 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST Much has been written and said about IBM Power and the journey to the cloud. Does it have to be complicated? Can it be done without refactoring? The answers to these cloud migration questions
Introducing Skytap Live Clone: Copy and save environments while VMs are running
Within Skytap, Environments and Templates are very important concepts. An Environment is an object that comprises one or more VMs, one or more networks, plus configuration settings and metadata. A Template is a read-only copy of an environment that can be used to back up critical environments and acts like a blueprint for new environments.
Creating a Self-managed Private Network Connection (PNC) with ExpressRoute in Skytap
One of the major challenges that customers face for cloud adoption is networking issues, particularly high network latency, which affects how fast data can be transferred from one location to another. These delays are not only frustrating to end-users but are costly to businesses. Today, Skytap integrates with Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute to provide a standard 1 Gbps
Rational Tools now available on Skytap for IBMi customers
IBM i customers on Skytap who run development and test workloads or those who require compilers for their applications when moving to Skytap can now license the Rational Development Tools package self-service from the Skytap Hardware Settings page, Licensing section. Clicking on the Edit icon, users can now specify how many users they’d like to
The Skytap on Azure (SoA) Hong Kong region is now available in the Azure Marketplace
We’re happy to announce that the Skytap on Azure (SoA) Hong Kong region is now available in the Azure Marketplace and hosted in the Azure East Asia data center to help support our APAC customers. Customers may create new Skytap on Azure accounts or add this region to their existing Skytap on Azure accounts. For
The Cloud Dilemma – What to do with traditional on-prem applications that are “cloud stubborn”?
We have all heard this phrase: “My app can’t be moved to the cloud…..it is based on AIX or IBMi…….” What is implied is that the app owner doesn’t want to re-engineer their application to all use cloud-native services, but instead wants to do a classic lift-and-shift of their application without making any application code
Cloud Taxonomy for Non-Production Use Cases for the Cloud
The following use cases are potential ways to use the cloud for non-production use cases. The key is to deliver “quickly” the infrastructure needed to perform a specific need or task. Waiting weeks for infrastructure delivery should be considered an “anti-pattern” since the cumulative time of waiting over the course of a project would be
Getting ready to move IBM Power workloads to the cloud
As part of cloud and digital transformation initiatives, you may be taking a hard look at how to move your core business applications running on IBM Power Systems to the cloud. There are many reasons to migrate Power workloads to the cloud — improved flexibility and lower risk, cloud-native services that enhance core business applications,
Skytap introduces Secure Remote Access Client (SRA) Insert Text (Paste) Feature
Secure Remote Access Client Insert Text Feature Ever since Skytap launched the Power offering, IBM i customers have been asking for a way to insert long strings of text into the IBM i guest OS. Many command-line statements in IBM i are very long and typing them into the client can be really time-consuming.
