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November 11, 2025

Dual Public Cloud Implementation of Power Workloads

by Ivaylo Nikolov in AIX, AS/400, IBM Cloud, Power, Skytap on Azure

In recent time there have been increasing interest from customers, which move their critical workloads into public cloud platforms, based on IBM Power technology. These systems are mostly essential to these customers, but also hard to support and most of the time legacy and not well undocumented. When being moved to a cloud environment, these […]

October 15, 2025

Automating DR Resource Switchovers in Skytap

by Ivaylo Nikolov in Disaster Recovery, Skytap

Disaster Recovery in Cloud Business continuity is obviously one of the most important topics when it comes to moving critical systems. This is even more so, when it comes to moving systems into a public cloud environment. This is due to a few factors: Inability to affect provided SLA levels, which can be insufficient to […]

August 26, 2025

Automated Deployments with Azure DevOps

by Ivaylo Nikolov in Azure, Skytap

Test Environment Automation Concepts Across many customer environments, where an advanced testing process is in place, stands the issue of deploying non-production environments. There are different variations of non-production environments – some of them less comparable to the production setup than others. Some are meant as almost exact copies even resourced the same as the […]

August 26, 2025

Automated Oracle DB Refreshes in Skytap

by Ivaylo Nikolov in Oracle, Skytap

Oracle DB Refreshes on AIX on Skytap There are a prevalent number of customers that are now choosing Skytap on Azure, and other cloud platforms to host their AIX footprint. Skytap has been increasingly popular due to its close connection to Azure Native and the fact that it is directly hosted within Microsoft data centers […]

August 25, 2025

Azure Site Recovery with Terraform, DevOps

by Ivaylo Nikolov in Azure, Disaster Recovery

Azure Site Recovery – Intro Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is a service within Azure Native aimed at providing cost-efficient and easy to configure disaster recovery solution for Azure virtual machines. It is one of the important aspects of getting to know and mastering Azure business continuity services. Configuration for ASR can be seen as easy […]

March 15, 2025

A Short Way to Reliable Oracle RAC in Skytap

by Ivaylo Nikolov in AIX, Oracle, Skytap on Azure

Introduction Most of our projects within Skytap on Azure have been related to AIX and Oracle workloads. In a lot of these scenarios complex clustered environments have been part of the project with clients looking to see how we will migrate, implement and support such clustering within Skytap. There have been some misunderstandings and myths […]

March 13, 2025

ISeries to Public Clouds using Commvault

by Ivaylo Nikolov in IBM Cloud, iSeries, Skytap

Intro Over the years. we have been requested by customers and partners on many occasions what is the best approach to migrate iSeries workloads into the public Power-based clouds (mostly Skytap and IBM Cloud PowerVS). Obviously there are numerous approaches from an ongoing replication to physical transfer of data on media, which are not for […]