Skytap Expands Global Footprint With Availability in Microsoft Azure India Data Centers
Skytap, an industry-leading service to
run IBM Power and x86 workloads natively in the cloud, today announced global
expansion plans with planned availability in two additional Microsoft Azure
data centers: Central India (Pune) and South India (Chennai).
Introduced in 2020
with availability in Azure’s US East region, Skytap on Azure is one of the
market’s only infrastructure-as-a-service purpose-built to run IBM Power
workloads natively in Azure. Since then, Skytap has continued expansion to meet
increasing demand with expansion in 2021 to Azure’s Singapore, Amsterdam, and
US South Central regions and in 2022 to Azure’s London, Dublin, and Hong Kong
regions.
Skytap will be available
in Azure’s India region starting with Central India (Pune) in April and then
South India (Chennai) later this year, further expanding Skytap on Azure’s
global reach. “As enterprise demand for running specialized workloads in the
cloud continues to increase, we’ve seen significant interest in India,” stated
Lee Jiles, SVP of Sales and Marketing at Skytap. “We’re eager to provide these
enterprises with a simple and much needed path to the cloud for their IBM Power
workloads.”
The accelerating
interest in infrastructure-as-a-service for Power workloads is expected to
continue. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide
Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker, the India public cloud services
market is expected to reach $17.8 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 23.4%
for 2022-27.
Nearly four years
since its introduction, Skytap on Azure is providing enterprises a gateway to
benefits well beyond cloud scalability, agility, high availability, and
disaster recovery. “Skytap customers are finding added value by connecting
legacy applications to Azure native services such as artificial
intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), security and accelerated devops,” noted
Rahul Tripathi, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Skytap. “These value
enhancements further strengthen the business case for moving traditional
workloads to the cloud and deliver competitive advantages for those modernizing
IT infrastructure.”
“With Skytap on
Azure, Microsoft brings the unique capabilities of the IBM Power ecosystem to
Azure data centers in India. Customers can easily migrate existing AIX and IBM
i based applications to Azure and unlock cloud benefits,” stated Eric Lockard,
Corporate Vice President, Azure Specialized at Microsoft.
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