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Skytap

Score4.1 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Skytap?

Traditional Applications, Now in the Cloud

Skytap helps users get business-critical applications out of the data center and into the cloud. The user can run on-premises IBM Power and x86 workloads in their native format on Microsoft Azure or IBM Cloud. With Skytap, there is no need to contemplate embarking on a long, costly migration project to unlock cloud scale, agility, and value-added native cloud services such as advanced analytics, data modeling, cognitive intelligence, and accelerated DevOps. Skytap also helps users to deliver scalable training, sales demos and POCs for enterprise software solutions and applications with its Skytap Virtual IT Labs solution.

Top Performing Features

  • Monitoring tools

    Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected

    Category average: 7.9

  • Automation

    Automation of administrative tasks

    Category average: 7.7

  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

    The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA

    Category average: 8.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Pre-configured templates

    Pre-defined templates for virtual machines

    Category average: 7.6

  • Dynamic scaling

    Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs

    Category average: 8.2

  • Security controls

    Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES

    Category average: 8.1

Skytap Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Its interface is very simple and issue replication is simplified as only one user have to set up the environment and it becomes usable afterwards. Already user defined templates are available which help us to build, configure and use virtual environment. It is very useful when team works on multiple versions.

Pros

  • Improve business process agility
  • Drives innovation

Cons

  • Pricing is bit higher
  • Performance issue when complex environments are setup

Most Important Features

  • Multiple user can work on multiple versions together

Return on Investment

  • Over priced