Skytap Adds to Leadership Team with New Chief Revenue Officer and VP of People

New executives will help Skytap further its mission of enabling customers to move traditional IBM Power applications to the cloud safely, quickly and easily.   Seattle, Wash – November 17, 2020 – Today Skytap announced two new members of its executive team: John Wrobel as Chief Revenue Officer and Kari Dickerson as Vice President of

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Update

Horrible events like the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Elijah McClain, and too many others provide a spotlight to motivate change. These events have helped us become more aware of injustice and inspire us to support our communities better. Increased awareness and initial responses are only the beginning, however. Real systemic change requires conscious

A Special Invitation for New Customers

Covid-19 has significantly impacted every part of daily life – from the way our children learn, our communities remain connected, to how business continues to operate. Skytap is proud to have served companies of all sizes and industries for over a decade. The world is now changing in ways we couldn’t have imagined, and as circumstances

Skytap wins 2020 IBM Cloud Embed Excellence Award

We are very proud to announce that Skytap won the IBM Cloud, Data & AI award for Embed Excellence — during the first-ever virtual IBM Think conference on May 5, 2020. IBM’s Cloud, Data & AI Excellence awards recognize the stellar performance of IBM Business Partners who have demonstrated excellence and drive exceptional client experiences and business

Skytap on IBM Cloud now Available in Frankfurt

We are pleased to announce Skytap on IBM Cloud is now available in IBM Cloud’s Frankfurt data center. The expansion of Skytap to Frankfurt includes support for running traditional x86 applications. Skytap x86 is also available in Dallas, Ashburn, Toronto, London, and Singapore data centers. Skytap Power is available in Dallas, Toronto, and London. Read
Skytap Live: January 28

You’re Invited! Join Us for Skytap Live

Save the Date: January 28, 2021 You’re invited! Join us for Skytap Live, an online event open to all Skytap customers. Hear about advancements to the Skytap platform made over the last year and about our 2021 roadmap. Agenda Time (PST) Event Speaker 8:00 AM (20 mins.) Welcome Keynote Brad Schick 8:20 AM (20 mins.)

Voices of Skytap

At Skytap, we’re laser-focused on providing technology that makes our customers’ more  productive. We’re committed to ensuring that IT teams can keep up with the fast-evolving demands of business. It’s a world of cloud and apps and environments. But behind all the tech are real people making it happen. Though we know the diverse talent

Skytap on Monty TV, CFO Thought Leadership Podcast

Skytap executives recently sat down with various media outlets to share insight into our business, customers and their backgrounds. Our CFO Frank Colich spent time with the CFO Thought Leadership podcast recounting his unique path to becoming a CFO, advice for aspiring finance executives, and insight into how Skytap runs our business. Meanwhile, our CEO

Enterprise modernization is hard. But you have choices.

Cloud is now synonymous with AWS, Azure, and Google, as if to suggest there are no other choices, and that change is binary. As the pressure for enterprises to modernize swells, our conversations about “cloud” are reduced to overhyped, oversimplified, redundant assessments of high-level metrics whenever a brand-name provider announces their quarterly earnings. But enterprises

New research finds enterprises are own worst enemy in cloud adoption and people are greatest barrier to success

Skytap market study conducted by 451 Research shows that despite appetite to modernize, large majority of enterprise applications remain trapped on-premises, creating unexpected skills challenges aggravated by confusion about best path to cloud SEATTLE – June 6, 2018 – Skytap, Inc., a global cloud provider, today announced the results of a commissioned study on the state of

Engineering at Skytap

In March 2018, Skytap hired John Ludeman as senior vice president of engineering to support the company’s continued growth and evolution. Below is a note from John. In a town that’s become known as “Cloud City,” there’s no shortage of great, successful cloud companies – from the market behemoths to new startups. But the reason

Introducing Skytap Cloud Private Network Connection for faster data transfers

We live in a digital economy, where data is critical to every organization. In fact, last year The Economist argued that data has superseded oil as the world’s most valuable resource. From healthcare companies analyzing patient preferences to governments correlating population metrics, data is at the heart of just about everything. This statement holds true