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Extending VMware’s capabilities with Skytap Cloud

  • Posted on: August 24, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is attending VMworld 2017 next week, and we’ll have our largest presence yet at one of IT’s most notable conferences. Looking at the VMworld 2017 agenda, it’s clear attendees understand IT modernization is vital to business success in the digital economy. Skytap Cloud was designed specifically for modernizing applications at the heart of enterprises and we’re

Why We’re Pursuing a Significant, But Overlooked Market

  • Posted on: August 22, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
In August 2006, Amazon posted a one-paragraph announcement that it was launching something called Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to bring computing power to the cloud. EC2 joined its recently-launched cloud storage service, S3, to set in motion what would become AWS. The rest is widely-covered history. What’s been less covered is a segment of the market that
AIX Migration

Five Enterprises Running AIX in the Cloud

  • Posted on: August 18, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
With support steadily growing for multi-cloud, the strategy of using the right cloud for the right workload, enterprises are increasingly turning their focus to specialized cloud providers that can support their unique needs. Simon Sharwood at The Register pointed out this week that these providers can be “more interesting than the mainstream,” and “history tells us none
AIX Environments

Why AIX Is Moving to the Cloud

  • Posted on: August 11, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
One reason that traditional applications have largely remained on-premises, while greenfield applications continue to be migrated to, and born in the cloud, is the technology they’ve run on for decades is tried and true. These applications continue to provide core business functionality that cannot be disrupted, and other public cloud providers have ignored this fact.

Incorporating IBM AIX into Your Cloud Roadmap

  • Posted on: August 1, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
No matter the scope of your cloud migration initiative, setting a roadmap for your journey is mandatory. According to IBM, A well-thought out roadmap doesn’t stop at covering the technical requirements for such a journey, it “ensures that each cloud decision the company makes to solve today’s needs will continue to pay off in the future.”
traditional applications challenges

Why the Cloud Must Do More for Traditional Enterprise Applications

  • Posted on: July 25, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
We all know that public cloud adoption is on the rise. Numerous analyst reports share data validating this shift. But the hockey stick growth many of these reports chart looks very different when it comes to enterprise adoption, particularly regarding the migration of traditional applications. While research continues to tout skyrocketing percentages of apps moving to the
application modernization in bimodal IT

Application Modernization from an Operations Perspective

  • Posted on: July 11, 2017
  • Author: Brad Schick
Bimodal, or multi-speed, IT is a recognition that software delivery in larger businesses is happening at different rates. It’s a description of the state of the world in which businesses recognize the fact that newer, more modern software is being delivered faster, and that older, more traditional software is being delivered more slowly. When people

Dynamically Multiplexing Disposable Production Environment Clones

  • Posted on: June 28, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
We recently discussed a set of usability enhancements for our internal test environments. During the course of this work, we discovered a subset of problems which couldn’t be solved with environment configuration alone. Specifically, we require external infrastructure if we want to provide a single domain as an endpoint for all test environments, if we
app modernization presentation

Why a Customer-first Attitude Drives Successful App Modernization Efforts

  • Posted on: June 23, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
In “Contain Yourself: An Incremental Adoption of Modernization,” Petr Novodvorskiy and Dan Jones share some chapters from Skytap’s own app modernization story, specifically those around how we successfully broke up several monolithic services into microservices using Docker and Kubernetes. Petr and Dan presented this session at CoreOS Fest 2017 in San Francisco. When we hear

How Skytap Cloud Makes Creating Production Clones Ridiculously Easy

  • Posted on: June 21, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
In previous blog posts, we covered Jenga (our environment construction tool) and did a deep dive into how we use Jenga as a component in delivering fully functional clones of our production environment. We’re very happy with this delivery pipeline, and the test environments it produces. Our engineers always have up-to-date templates for development or
Containers

What’s Running inside Your Containers? How about Now?

  • Posted on: June 7, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
“You may get a new physical server once a month, you may get a new VM once every ten, fifteen, or 20 minutes. You may get a new container once every ten seconds.” -Kenaz Kwa, Puppet It didn’t take long during our conversation with Puppet’s Kenaz Kwa and Tyler Pace to understand the challenge of

Modern Accountability in Multi-Cloud Management

  • Posted on: June 2, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
Enterprises aren’t just adopting cloud at an accelerated rate, recent surveys have shown that multi-cloud adoption is becoming the new standard. With no one-size-fits-all cloud provider in the market, and each vendor becoming increasingly known for a single or set of unique strengths, it makes sense that multi-cloud approaches are taking off. Skytap CTO, Brad Schick,