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Your organization must modernize the applications you depend on to adapt, change, and succeed in your market. Why? Let’s discuss in plain terms. The cloud industry is full of jargon – words and acronyms specific to a given technology that attempt to describe it simply, but often confuse the issue. While Skytap is not immune

This past October we delivered general availability of AIX on Power in Skytap Cloud, making us the first and only cloud supporting AIX. Today we’re excited to announce availability of Linux on Power running in Skytap Cloud, which further expands our capabilities for modernizing traditional applications. Leading IT analysts and our enterprise customers agree — application modernization is a top

We’ve all heard about some of the bizarre and extravagant perks that emerging tech companies offer to entice employees and candidates. And we’ll admit, we at Skytap have our fair share of snacks and sparkling water! But as experts in modernizing enterprise technology, we’re also keenly aware that things like kombucha taps and ping pong

Money can be stressful. And when you’re under pressure to modernize your enterprise technology, cost is a top — if not the top — factor your executive team cares about. How much bang are we going to get for our buck? While cloud technology has made our processes, infrastructure and applications more streamlined, advanced and

Skytap is actively working to mitigate any impact of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities for Skytap customers. We’re currently engaged with our hardware and software vendors to identify and implement appropriate patches. We are assessing our public cloud hosting and internal systems to ensure all measures are taken to protect our customers. As we receive

Skytap recently made headlines as one of Business Insiders’ “51 startups to bet your career on in 2018,” news that comes on the heels of widespread media coverage for our Series E funding from Goldman Sachs. Media publications understand, and have clearly articulated, the size and urgency of the cloud challenge we’re solving. The need

Last week I had the opportunity to jump on the phone with Dean Upton, Director at Blueworx.  During our discussion we chatted about the evolution of IVR, the challenges of modernizing a traditional application and the opportunity ahead now that modernization is underway in Skytap Cloud.  Enjoy! How did you get into the tech industry?

Cloud is the foundation of digital transformation. Cloud delivers agility, flexibility, and scale for the development and operations of both new, cloud-native applications, and the traditional applications that enterprises depend on to run their businesses.   The problem with the latter group is that traditional enterprise applications weren’t built for the cloud and can’t be

It wasn’t long ago that many believed that public cloud’s benefits were largely limited to greenfield application development. New applications would be developed, tested, and deployed in the cloud, but, traditional applications—due to their size and complexity—remained in physical datacenters. And while a majority of enterprises continue to keep these mission-critical workloads on-premises, that number