Category: Skytap on Azure

Skytap Named Winner at the 19th Annual 2024 Globee® Awards for Technology

  • Posted on: June 27, 2024
  • Author: Kim Claditis
Skytap, a Kyndryl company, is excited to announce that it has been recognized as a winner at the 19th Annual 2024 Globee® Awards for Technology, one of the world’s premier business awards programs. Skytap was awarded a Gold Globee in the category of Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service for its Skytap on Azure solution which makes it possible

How can we accelerate and simplify your cloud journey for specialized workloads to Azure?

  • Posted on: September 26, 2023
  • Author: Sarah Allen
This is a question we constantly ask ourselves at Skytap. Our specialty is providing a platform for Azure customers to host workloads within Azure’s data centers that otherwise wouldn’t run on Azure hardware. The most common operating systems that I speak to customers about as a Cloud Solutions Architect here at Skytap are AIX and

High Availability/Disaster Recovery Options for IBM Power Running in Skytap on Azure

  • Posted on: July 24, 2023
  • Author: Sarah Duhon
A key consideration for running mission-critical workloads in the cloud is your high availability/disaster recovery solution. The good news is that most software-based solutions that are used for on-premises deployments can also be used in Skytap. At Skytap Academy Live, VP of Performance and Solutions Engineering Mike Neil discussed some of these HA/DR options for

Skytap Product Tips and Tricks

  • Posted on: July 5, 2023
  • Author: Randy Courtright
I’ve had the unique opportunity to work with Skytap both as a customer and as a Skytap employee, and in my 10+ years of experience doing so, there are a few tips and tricks I’ve learned to work efficiently, manage usage and best collaborate with team members. Whether you’ve also been a Skytap user for

What is promiscuous mode and why does it matter? 

  • Posted on: March 13, 2023
  • Author: Randy Courtright
It lets more network traffic through! That’s what promiscuous mode (or p-mode) does for the network card. It allows additional network traffic to the rest of the endpoint. What exactly do I mean by that and why does this need to happen sometimes? Here’s a quick overview of p-mode in both a traditional context for

Accessing Azure Blob Storage from a Skytap Environment (IBM i and AIX)

  • Posted on: February 23, 2023
  • Author: Sarah Allen
Azure Storage offers a variety of highly-available, secure, and durable storage options for customers. Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud and offers users the ability to store large amounts of unstructured data Azure Blob Storage is particularly useful when storing data for backup, disaster recovery, and archival.  Skytap on Azure
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Reserve Capacity in Skytap on Azure: Self-Service Now Available

  • Posted on: February 13, 2023
  • Author: Michael Wachal
Skytap has offered reserve capacity (RC) in our Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud offerings for just over two years now, but until recently, you were required to work through your account representative to request your RC. With the latest update to Skytap on Azure, you can now purchase reserve capacity directly within the Skytap portal

Why Skytap has become the de facto cloud for AIX and IBM i

  • Posted on: January 24, 2023
  • Author: Jerry Crossfield
As CEO of a cloud migration services company, I guide enterprises each week on their digital transformation and the best path to the cloud. And over the past decade, the challenge that frequently surfaces is how to include legacy applications in the broader cloud transformation initiative. We’ve all seen how modern applications have migrated to

Using Azure NetApp Files with Power Systems in Skytap on Azure

  • Posted on: January 19, 2023
  • Author: Abhishek Jain
As a Cloud Solutions Architect at Skytap, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a variety of customers who are looking for robust and high-performance file storage solutions. One that has stood out to me as a particularly powerful option is Azure NetApp Files (ANF). Given my experience with this option, I wanted to share