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# L3C Limited

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## Posts

- [Discover our cloud insights & initiatives](https://l3c.cloud/blog/) - Discover our latest insights and technical implementations related to some of our AIX & IBM i cloud projects and modernisation & automation initiatives
- [Reasons why companies are moving IBM Power workloads to Skytap on Azure](https://l3c.cloud/2023/03/13/reasons-why-companies-are-moving-ibm-power-workloads-to-skytap-on-azure/) - Why companies from all over the world are moving IBM Power workloads to Skytap on Azure?
- [Migrating IBM i (AS/400) to Public Cloud using Commvault](https://l3c.cloud/2025/03/11/iseries-to-public-clouds-using-commvault/) - 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 on Azure and IBM Cloud PowerVS). Obviously there are numerous approaches from an ongoing replication to physical transfer of data on media, which are
- [IBM AIX: High Availability](https://l3c.cloud/2020/10/23/ibm-aix-high-availability/) - Introduction In this series, we will try to inform more on our view on a few business continuity topics – mainly backup, high-availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) as used in the relation to Power-based AIX environments. The series will include a few articles focused on these topics and describing some of the typical problems
- [Bringing legacy applications into your cloud and digital strategy](https://l3c.cloud/2021/03/03/bringing-legacy-applications-into-your-cloud-and-digital-strategy/) - Legacy, “something that remains from an earlier time.” This can be a good thing but often when attributed to applications can be deemed problematic, costly and a constraint on progress. As organisations continue to evolve their digital and cloud strategies so called legacy applications and infrastructures are often ignored or filed in the ‘too hard’
- [IBM Cloud Series – Intro](https://l3c.cloud/2021/03/09/ibm-cloud-series-intro/) - We are starting a small number of article series related to some of our experiences on IBM Cloud platform L3C has been involved in IBM Cloud projects over the years in its determination to know more about the major public cloud players on the market. Moreover, our team has always had a particular interest in
- [IBM Cloud Compute](https://l3c.cloud/2021/03/24/ibm-cloud-compute/) - Second Part of IBM Cloud Series In this piece we will talk a bit more on compute resources in IBM Cloud, meaning those resources available on the platform marked usually as instances. The idea of this is to basically share our experience from working mainly on the classic service part as opposed to IBM Cloud’s
- [IBM Cloud Security](https://l3c.cloud/2021/04/13/ibm-cloud-security/) - Introduction This part of the series focuses solely on the security perspective of the IBM Cloud platform. We will go through the main aspects of user and account management, encryption specifics, and availability. All aspects of security cannot be encompassed in a short article, so we are describing a few challenges that we met along the way.
- [IBM Cloud Storage](https://l3c.cloud/2021/04/26/ibm-cloud-storage/) - Introduction This is the fourth installment of the IBM Cloud series referring in more detail to the different storage services that we have had experience with on IBM Cloud. Once again this will refer mainly to the classic instance type of implementation as it is more close to a public cloud solution we see in other cloud
- [How to actually migrate your AIX data into the Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/2021/10/12/how-to-actually-migrate-your-aix-data-into-the-cloud/) - Introduction So you have decided to migrate your AIX and Unix workloads into the Cloud, whether one of the major public clouds such as Skytap on Azure or IBM PowerVS or a dedicated private cloud environment such as L3C Cloud. Here we share our experiences when migrating AIX data into cloud for the major public cloud service providers. It’s great and
- [How to bring your AIX, AS/400 workloads into Azure](https://l3c.cloud/2022/03/13/how-to-bring-your-aix-as-400-workloads-into-azure/) - Now you can finally bring your AIX and AS/400 workloads into Azure Skytap on Azure provides an essential piece in the transformational jigsaw for many organisations by bringing IBM AIX and IBM i (aka AS/400) workloads into Azure. For many, these still critical and often incorrectly classed as legacy environments, have had to remain on premise
- [Working with Skytap on Azure](https://l3c.cloud/2022/10/18/working-with-skytap-on-azure/) - Introduction As Skytap on Azure becomes the prevailing solution for companies looking to move their legacy but key IBM AIX and IBM iSeries workloads to cloud we will share our deep experience of migrating workloads to Skytap on Azure covering design considerations, migration approaches, networking, backup and integrating monitoring into the Azure Monitor dashboard. As always, as an independent company, our
- [Why Skytap became de facto cloud for AIX, IBM i](https://l3c.cloud/2023/01/23/why-skytap-became-de-facto-cloud-for-aix-ibm-i/) - 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
- [A Short Way to Reliable Oracle RAC in Skytap](https://l3c.cloud/2025/03/13/a-short-way-to-reliable-oracle-rac-in-skytap/) - 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
- [Azure Site Recovery with Terraform, DevOps](https://l3c.cloud/2025/08/14/azure-site-recovery-with-terraform-devops/) - 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 to
- [Automated Oracle DB Refreshes on AIX in Skytap](https://l3c.cloud/2025/08/20/automated-oracle-db-refreshes-on-aix-in-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
- [Automated Test Deployments with Ansible & Azure DevOps](https://l3c.cloud/2025/08/26/automating-test-deployments-azure-with-ansible-devops/) - 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
- [Automating DR Resource Switchovers in Skytap](https://l3c.cloud/2025/10/15/automating-dr-resource-switchovers-in-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
- [Pursuing a Dual Cloud Policy](https://l3c.cloud/2025/11/24/pursuing-a-dual-cloud-policy/) - 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
- [What’s stopping AIX and legacy environments being part of your cloud strategy?](https://l3c.cloud/2017/09/14/whats-stopping-aix-and-legacy-environments-being-part-of-your-cloud-strategy/) - Now, for most, the holidays are over and attention directs towards 2018 budgets and strategies. As new workloads are assessed to move to cloud and new initiatives are considered what’s stopping AIX and legacy environments being part of this cloud and digitization strategy? Most companies either have a cloud strategy or are considering building one
- [Can Cloud help Wealth Management Companies?](https://l3c.cloud/2015/07/15/can-cloud-help-wealth-management-companies/) - Search ‘wealth management challenges’ and you are likely to find these summarised into 3 generic areas: regulation, digitisation and cloud. However talking to wealth management companies and their application providers the basic challenge remains the same, how to get new clients particularly HNW individuals and a greater share from existing clients. So can cloud help
- [Did the Top 10 Predictions on AIX come true?](https://l3c.cloud/2017/07/21/did-the-top-10-predictions-on-aix-come-true/) - I stumbled across a 2013 version of IBM Systems Magazine from 2013 entitled ‘Top 10 Reasons AIX Will Endure’ Intrigued to find out what these predictions on the future were I opened the article and the reasons could roughly be grouped as follows: Ease of Use Support IBM and its continued investment and roadmap AIX

## Pages

- [Home](https://l3c.cloud/) - Discover how L3C migrates, modernizes, and manages AIX & IBM i globally in cloud platforms like Kyndryl Cloud (Skytap), IBM PowerVS, and builds private clouds.
- [FAQ](https://l3c.cloud/faq/) - Check out our AIX & IBM i FAQ for key information about Sktap (Kyndryl Cloud) & IBM PowerVS. If there is something you need to know then please contact us
- [Modernisation & Automation](https://l3c.cloud/our-services/custom-software/) - We modernise AIX operations with advanced scripting & Ansible expertise. Unique Copilot enabled tooling integrates AIX & IBM i system alerts into Azure Monitor.
- [Kyndryl Cloud Uplift (Skytap on Azure)](https://l3c.cloud/our-services/skytap-on-azure/) - We can migrate and manage your workloads in Skytap on Azure (Kyndryl Cloud Uplift) or run across dual platforms such as Skytap and PowerVS to avoid lock in.
- [Certifications](https://l3c.cloud/certifications/) - We have a number of ISO certifications across security, privacy, quality and service management to reassure you of our capabilities.
- [Case Studies](https://l3c.cloud/case-studies/) - See some of the AIX, IBM i cloud and modernisation projects we have implemented across multiple industries in our case studies section bringing legacy to cloud
- [AIX IBM i Managed Services](https://l3c.cloud/our-services/managed-services/) - Wherever your AIX & IBM i systems are located we can manage them for you. Whether in cloud or on premise our services are provided for a fixed price.
- [IBM PowerVS](https://l3c.cloud/our-services/ibm-powervs/) - We can migrate and manage your workloads in IBM PowerVS or run across dual platforms such as PowerVS and Skytap to avoid lock in
- [AIX & IBM i Private Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/our-services/aix-ibm-i-private-cloud/) - If you have a private cloud need, with all data UK located, or are running older versions of AIX and IBM i we have a solution for you in our T3 UK data centres.
- [About](https://l3c.cloud/about/) - Find out more about L3C, who we are and our values and commitment to you along with the history of how we have grown and projects we have worked on
- [Our Services](https://l3c.cloud/our-services/) - Explore comprehensive cloud modernization, consulting, and managed services tailored for AIX and IBM i workloads across industries.
- [Cloud Consulting](https://l3c.cloud/our-services/support/) - We provide independent advice and guidance regarding AIX and IBM i Cloud and modernisation
- [Contact Us](https://l3c.cloud/contact-us/) - Contact us for clear, independent advice for AIX and IBM i. Whether a general query or a price request, submit your request and our specialists will respond.

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## Pricing Tables

- [Price 2](https://l3c.cloud/pricing-table/copy-of-price-1/)
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## Projects

- [Retail - AWS Native Backup POC](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/retail-aws-native-backup-poc/) - Aurora and S3 Cross-Account Resilience with Air-Gapped Recovery Overview Customer Proof of Concept for AWS native backup and logically air-gapped recovery for Amazon Aurora and Amazon S3 Challenge The client wanted to validate whether AWS native services could be implemented for their existing services and to provide proven protection from ransomware attack. The scope
- [L3C Monitor](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/l3c-monitor/) - Demonstrate agentless solution that unifies monitoring across Windows, Linux, AIX, IBM i, and Oracle including legacy Windows, Linux and Oracle versions
- [UK Electricity Distributor](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/l3c-skytap-aix-uk-electricity-distributor/) - Discover how we migrated a critical AIX and Oracle platform to cloud for a major regulated Utility in the UK meeting all critical milestones for a fixed budget
- [Major Insurance Company](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/major-insurance-company-uses-l3c-to-move-to-cloud/) - Discover how we migrated the key policy application for a major Irish insurance company to an IBM i cloud environment, implementing a new backup solution and HA
- [Wealth Management Company](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/l3c-skytap-migration-for-a-wealth-management-company/) - Discover how we helped a Wealth Management company migrate a key IBM i application they had purchased to a new Cloud set up from the existing service provider
- [Global Electronics Company](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/l3c-skytap-case-study-for-global-electronics-provider/) - NL based Global HealthTec / Electronics Company – critical AIX cloud migration https://l3c.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Case-Study-HealthElectronics.mp4 Overview L3C migrated a Healthtec / Global Electronics Provider that had to exit a legacy data centre and integrate the AIX migration with ongoing x86 one. Challenge Exit a legacy data centre and integrate AIX migration with ongoing x86 Azure native
- [Retail Cloud Migration & Modernisation](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/retail-cloud-migration-modernisation/) - Discover how a major retailer successfully migrated and modernized their AIX and Oracle environments to the cloud, enhancing efficiency and resilience.
- [US Industrial Company](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/us-lndustrial-company/) - Discover how we migrated a key IBM i application for a major US Industrial company to Cloud and provide ongoing IBM i managed services for the environment
- [Public Sector](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/l3c-skytap-aix-public-sector/) - Migration of important AIX application to cloud for a leading UK unitary authority to avoid the capital expenditure on new hardware
- [Payment Card Industry](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/skytap-and-ibm-powervs-ibm-i-for-global-payment-card-provider/) - Financial Sector – IBM i Multi Cloud Solution across Skytap and Power VS Challenge Our client needed to exit an Icelandic data centre and pursue a dual / multi cloud policy for their critical IBM i LPARs. Solution L3C designed and executed the IBM i migration to Skytap on Azure and then established replication to
- [L3C Private Cloud for AIX](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/migrating-aix-to-l3c-private-cloud/) - We migrated a critical AIX environment to our private cloud and enabled connectivity to the client's AWS and GCP applications
- [Consumer Goods Company](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/aix-migration-to-skytap-for-consumer-goods-company/) - AIX and Oracle cloud migration and managed services for a global consumer goods and bottling company completed within 10 weeks
- [UK Logistics Company](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/ibmi-migration-to-skytap-for-uk-logistics-company/) - Migration of key IBM i (AS/400) application to Cloud for a major UK distribution and logistics company with the provision of managed services.
- [Payroll Migration to IBM Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/nproject/migration-to-ibm-cloud/) - Migration and managed services of critical Linux and Windows applications to IBM Cloud for a major international payroll services provider

## Categories

- [Quick Tips](https://l3c.cloud/category/quick-tips/)
- [Disaster Recovery](https://l3c.cloud/category/disaster-recovery/)
- [Skytap on Azure](https://l3c.cloud/category/skytap-on-azure/)
- [Automation](https://l3c.cloud/category/automation/)
- [Azure](https://l3c.cloud/category/azure/)
- [Oracle](https://l3c.cloud/category/oracle/)
- [AIX](https://l3c.cloud/category/aix/)
- [iSeries](https://l3c.cloud/category/iseries/)
- [Terraform](https://l3c.cloud/category/terraform/)
- [DevOps](https://l3c.cloud/category/devops/)
- [Oracle RAC](https://l3c.cloud/category/oracle-rac/)
- [Commvault](https://l3c.cloud/category/commvault/)
- [IBM PowerVS](https://l3c.cloud/category/ibm-powervs/)
- [Migration](https://l3c.cloud/category/migration/)
- [IBM Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/category/ibm-cloud/)
- [Security](https://l3c.cloud/category/security/)
- [Legacy applications](https://l3c.cloud/category/legacy-applications/)
- [Digital Transformation](https://l3c.cloud/category/digital-transformation/)
- [High Availability](https://l3c.cloud/category/high-availability/)
- [Backup](https://l3c.cloud/category/backup/)
- [Business Continuity](https://l3c.cloud/category/business-continuity/)

## Tags

- [Automation](https://l3c.cloud/tag/automation/)
- [AIX](https://l3c.cloud/tag/aix/)
- [Oracle](https://l3c.cloud/tag/oracle/)
- [Skytap on Azure](https://l3c.cloud/tag/skytap-on-azure/)
- [Ansible](https://l3c.cloud/tag/ansible/)
- [DevOps](https://l3c.cloud/tag/devops/)
- [Azure](https://l3c.cloud/tag/azure/)
- [Disaster Recovery](https://l3c.cloud/tag/disaster-recovery/)
- [Azure Site Recovery](https://l3c.cloud/tag/azure-site-recovery/)
- [Oracle RAC](https://l3c.cloud/tag/oracle-rac/)
- [Commvault](https://l3c.cloud/tag/commvault/)
- [iSeries](https://l3c.cloud/tag/iseries/)
- [PowerVS](https://l3c.cloud/tag/powervs/)
- [Migration](https://l3c.cloud/tag/migration/)
- [IBM Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/tag/ibm-cloud/)
- [Security](https://l3c.cloud/tag/security/)
- [Digital strategy](https://l3c.cloud/tag/digital-strategy/)
- [High Availability](https://l3c.cloud/tag/high-availability/)
- [Backup](https://l3c.cloud/tag/backup/)
- [Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/tag/cloud/)
- [Wealth Management](https://l3c.cloud/tag/wealth-management/)
- [Public Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/tag/public-cloud/)
- [IBM AIX](https://l3c.cloud/tag/ibm-aix/)
- [IBM i](https://l3c.cloud/tag/ibm-i/)

## Project Categories

- [Retail Industry](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/retail-industry/)
- [Cloud Services](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/cloud-services/)
- [Skytap on Azure](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/skytap-on-azure/)
- [Electronics Industry](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/electronics-industry/)
- [IBM](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/ibm/)
- [iSeries](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/iseries/)
- [Migration](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/migration/)
- [Wealth Management](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/wealth-management/)
- [Insurance](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/insurance/)
- [IBM Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/ibm-cloud/)
- [AIX](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/aix/)
- [Electricity Distributor](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/electricity-distributor/)
- [Government](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/government/)
- [Consumer Goods](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/consumer-goods/)
- [Oracle](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/oracle/)
- [Logistics](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/logistics/)
- [Payroll Services](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/payroll-services/)
- [Linux](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/linux/)
- [Windows](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/windows/)
- [Private Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/private-cloud/)
- [Modernisation](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/modernisation/)
- [Skytap](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/skytap/)
- [AWS](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/aws/)
- [Backup](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/backup/)
- [Disaster Recovery](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-category/disaster-recovery/)

## Project Tags

- [Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/cloud/)
- [Skytap on Azure](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/skytap-on-azure/)
- [Electronics](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/electronics/)
- [Wealth Management](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/wealth-management/)
- [Migration](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/migration/)
- [iSeries](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/iseries/)
- [Insurance](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/insurance/)
- [Payment Card Provider](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/payment-card-provider/)
- [Financial Sector](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/financial-sector/)
- [Electricity Distributor](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/electricity-distributor/)
- [AIX](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/aix/)
- [Government](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/government/)
- [Oracle](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/oracle/)
- [Logistics](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/logistics/)
- [Managed Services](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/managed-services/)
- [Linux](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/linux/)
- [Windows](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/windows/)
- [IBM Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/ibm-cloud/)
- [Private Cloud](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/private-cloud/)
- [Azure Native](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/azure-native/)
- [Oracle DBs](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/oracle-dbs/)
- [AWS](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/aws/)
- [Backup](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/backup/)
- [PoC](https://l3c.cloud/nproject-tag/poc/)