What is Skytap?
Skytap is a cloud infrastructure solution designed to seamlessly migrate and operate specialized workloads—including IBM Power workloads such as IBM i (AS/400), AIX, and Linux on Power—on Microsoft Azure or IBM Cloud. This platform eliminates the need for refactoring or extensive rewriting of applications, enabling organizations to efficiently shift business-critical and legacy applications from on-premises data centers to the cloud while maintaining native operational capabilities.
With Skytap, companies can leverage cloud-native services such as advanced analytics, data visualization, modeling, artificial intelligence, and accelerated DevOps processes. The platform also offers scalable training environments and powerful solutions for sales demonstrations and proofs of concept. By providing capacity on demand, self-service provisioning, and high availability, Skytap supports everything from production workloads to virtual software training and development/testing use cases.
Features
- Seamless Migration: Move IBM Power and x86 workloads to the cloud without refactoring.
- Native Cloud Support: Operate IBM i (AS/400), AIX, Linux on Power, and x86 workloads natively in Azure or IBM Cloud.
- Scalable Virtual IT Labs: Create impactful training, sales demos, and proof-of-concept environments for enterprise software.
- Integrated Analytics & AI: Utilize cloud-native analytics, data visualization, modeling, and artificial intelligence services.
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Ensure business continuity with built-in high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Self-Service Provisioning: Quickly create, clone, and manage cloud environments on demand.
- Multi-Platform Capability: Support both IBM Power Systems and x86 workloads in one integrated platform.
Use Cases
- Migrating legacy and specialized workloads from on-premise to the cloud.
- Running IBM Power workloads in a cloud environment without rewriting applications.
- Developing and testing enterprise software in scalable cloud environments.
- Delivering virtual training labs for software solutions and technical education.
- Creating robust environments for sales demos and proof of concepts.
- Implementing high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
- Leveraging advanced analytics, data visualization, and AI for existing workloads.
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