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Skytap Academy Live Customer Showcase: Kontoor Brands

  • Posted on: July 11, 2023
  • Author: Sarah Duhon
At Skytap Academy Live, Kontoor Brands was featured in a customer showcase session to discuss its cloud strategy and how it uses Skytap on Azure to run IBM Power applications in the cloud. Kontoor Brands’ Director of Global Infrastructure and Cloud Services Alex Ley and Principal Systems Engineer Venu Karate were joined by Skytap Director

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
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The Growing Cybersecurity Skills Gap and What to do About it

  • Posted on: June 16, 2023
  • Author: Ralph Capasso
Cybersecurity attacks are growing at an alarming rate and companies cannot be complacent when it comes to preparing employees and protecting data. According to the Fortinet 2022 Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report, 80% of the 1,000 organizations surveyed experienced at least one breach within the last 12 months and nearly 1 in 5 experienced five or

Leveraging the cloud to accelerate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures

  • Posted on: June 5, 2023
  • Author: Tony Perez
Companies engage in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. In most cases, a lengthy due diligence process happens. At some point in the process, “technological compatibility” between the impacted organizations is considered.  What happens when the companies merging have entirely different IT architectures?  Consider this fictional scenario: Company “BlueCascade” divests a subsidiary business unit called “AquaPure.” Company

How to “Float” on the Multi-Cloud

  • Posted on: April 26, 2023
  • Author: Tony Perez
There is a lot of talk about “multi-cloud,” but trying to achieve that level of cloud diversity might be challenging for many organizations. If you are starting out in the cloud, instead of building cloud-specific expertise across multiple cloud providers, try to “float” across multiple clouds as much as possible. Here is how. First off,

A User-Centered Approach to Achieving Seamless Workload Migrations

  • Posted on: April 11, 2023
  • Author: Nadine Zein
Production workloads are essential for the smooth functioning of an organization’s operations. Today’s businesses rely heavily on critical applications, data, and services such as enterprise resource planning systems, customer-facing websites, scale-out applications, and database management systems. However, the challenge for many businesses is to modernize their legacy applications to remain competitive in the market. Legacy

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
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Demystifying SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS

  • Posted on: March 8, 2023
  • Author: Skytap
The technology industry is loaded with jargon. Often a result of trying to simplify complex concepts, the abbreviations, buzzwords, and blurred lines can confuse even tech veterans, let alone those new to enterprise tech. So, in hopes of adding some clarity to the conversation, we’ve written a high-level overview that defines the most popular cloud

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

IT legacy application modernization: the gap between aspiration and execution

  • Posted on: February 20, 2023
  • Author: Steven Hunt
Many of you are likely aware of the recent story of Southwest Airlines’ terrible flight cancellation and scheduling crisis during the winter holidays. Skytap Cloud Solutions Architect Tony Perez even wrote about a blog about how the airline could benefit from a lift-and-shift to the multi-cloud, then refactor to solve this issue and avoid similar

A Tale of Two Cloud Transformations

  • Posted on: February 14, 2023
  • Author: Rahul Tripathi
Being engaged in the growth of cloud infrastructure for over a decade, I got to see and live through successes and failures of various cloud transformation journeys. Interestingly, two of them exemplify the spectrum of “pie in the sky” disappointment to “bang for the buck” impact. Both are large multi-billion dollar enterprises in the industrial
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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

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