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March 15, 2025

A Short Way to Reliable Oracle RAC in Skytap

by Ivaylo Nikolov in AIX, Azure, High Availability, Migration, Power, Skytap, 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

Migration of iSeries to Public Power Clouds using Commvault

by Ivaylo Nikolov in AS/400, Azure, Backup, Cloud Computing, IBM Cloud, iSeries, Migration, Skytap, Skytap on Azure

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 […]

March 17, 2023

Reasons behind moving IBM Power workloads to Skytap on Azure

by Jerry Crossfield in AIX, iSeries, Migration, Skytap, Skytap on Azure

Why companies from all over the world are moving IBM Power workloads to Skytap on Azure? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUaDJDLDzbo

January 26, 2023

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

by Jerry Crossfield in AIX, iSeries, Migration, Skytap, Skytap on Azure

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 […]