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Running on aging hardware over a decade old and no longer supported by IBM, Clear Channel Italy needed to migrate its AS/400 production workloads to Azure, ideally with minimal change and business disruption. Clear Channel Italy migrated its legacy AS/400 workloads to Skytap on Azure seamlessly and without business disruption, gaining peace of mind knowing that it is no longer at risk from continuing to run its legacy workloads on old, difficult to replace hardware.

Under a time crunch and after a major acquisition, Skytap and Meridian IT helped Rivus migrate IBM Power to the Azure cloud with minimal disruption while boosting performance and productivity by 25%.

If your company relies on mission-critical applications that run on AIX, IBM i, or Linux on IBM Power Systems in the data center, you may only consider moving these traditional workloads into the cloud when faced with a compelling event.

With no easy recovery option for a business-critical legacy ERP system running on outdated IBM Power hardware, TCM Living faced the risk of significant disruption in the event of a disaster recovery (DR) scenario. Working with Northdoor, the company has successfully created a native DR instance within Skytap on the Azure cloud, facilitating rapid recovery without the need for ongoing investments in new on-premises hardware.

Adopting cloud transformation strategies and adjusting business operations can present challenges, such as transitioning investments in IBM Power-based workloads to the cloud without costly or lengthy refactoring efforts. With Skytap on Azure, organizations can gain cloud-scale benefits while modernizing mission-critical applications, with no rebuilding efforts, quickly and easily.

Migrating IBM Power workloads to Skytap on Azure unlocks the next level of cloud possibility. Uncover data insights by connecting your data to Azure Synapse Analytics.

A recording of Skytap Live 2022, 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.

With Skytap on Azure, you can minimize the latency between traditional workloads and those running natively on Azure. You also can enhance traditional applications to extract more value from your data with Azure services—including Azure Synapse, AI/ML and Azure SQL—and more easily integrate traditional and Azure native applications.

Global retailer, SPAR, migrates to Skytap on Azure to ensure business continuity despite civil unrest. Thanks to the immediate response from cloud migration experts, SPAR’s 10 business-critical IBM i LPARs were quickly and remotely migrated to Skytap on Azure. Now SPAR can continue to modernize its workloads and advance its digital transformation strategy while saving costs.

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 and others might surprise you. Watch our on-demand webinar.

With Skytap, there is a way to move your Power workloads into the cloud in their native format, without rewriting or replatforming. This migration guide will help you understand cloud basics and benefits and how Skytap lets your Power workloads function as they do on-premises while gaining cloud advantages.

Skytap Service Delivery offerings are designed to ensure customer and partner success throughout Skytap Service Delivery offerings are designed to ensure customer and partner success throughout the stages of cloud adoption. The Skytap team has the skills and experience to support key cloud migration phases including proof-of-concept, migration, and post migration. the stages of cloud adoption. The Skytap team has the skills and experience to support key cloud migration phases including proof-of-concept, migration, and post migration.