Category: Skytap on Azure

Using Microsoft Azure Data Box for migration of IBM i workloads to Skytap

  • Posted on: November 18, 2022
  • Author: Richard Field
Skytap partners closely with Microsoft Azure to provide the ability to host IBM Power IBM i (AS/400, iSeries) and AIX application workloads in the cloud. As a Cloud Solutions Architect (or Pre-Sales Engineer), I talk to many customers every day who say they want to move their ‘legacy’ applications running on these platforms onto the

Skytap on Azure – Networking Considerations

  • Posted on: May 6, 2022
  • Author: Skytap
Recently, Microsoft’s Adam Stuart, an Azure Networking Specialist, worked with Skytap to put together some Azure Networking considerations regarding how to connect your mainframe and midrange systems to Azure via Skytap on Azure when planning a cloud migration. These considerations included some best practices when designing your networking especially since many of these systems are

Using Azure billing to view Skytap on Azure costs and usage

  • Posted on: November 22, 2021
  • Author: Michael Wachal
Overview Skytap on Azure is an Infrastructure as a Service offering that provides you with virtualized IBM Power systems computing resources as a managed service within Azure. Restrictions in the Azure Marketplace require that this be listed as a SaaS application, so it might not be obvious at first how to find your Skytap on