Intro 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 suppliers. When referring to storage, in IBM Cloud you will have to deal with a number of storage implementations like local disks, block storage, object storage and file storage. Local drives By default, most IBM Cloud instances on a classic implementation, whether ..read more

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 latest VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Gen2 platforms. IBM Cloud offer a number of services, which can roughly be divided into two: Private cloud – including bare-metal servers, custom hypervisors like VMWare etc. Public cloud – VPC Gen2 and classic virtual instances We ..read more

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 public  cloud technologies and services. We would most certainly advertise our own cloud platform, however, in specific  cases IBM Cloud or a more public cloud solution would be required by our customers in their ongoing projects. Most of our implementations have been performed ..read more

Why companies from all over the world are moving IBM Power workloads to Skytap on Azure? The post Reasons behind moving IBM Power workloads to Skytap on Azure first appeared on l3c.cloud ..read more

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 or been built on mature cloud infrastructures such as Azure, AWS and GCP, and yet until recently, companies with critical legacy AIX and IBM i workloads have been limited in their choices, often being forced to exclude these workloads from their clou ..read more

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 views are our own and based on our real experiences of migrating IBM Power to Skytap on Azure. Skytap on Azure Skytap on Azure allows IBM AIX and IBM i workloads to be migrated into Azur ..read more

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 demanding CAPEX budgets for upgrades and maintenance, while limiting agility. Additionally, Skytap on Azure now allows AIX and IBM i environments to be brought into a modern cloud world. Power servers are now located within Azure data centres and Expr ..read more

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 makes a lot of sense to migrate AIX and legacy Unix to cloud. How do you actually get everything there while still running critical applications that usually don’t afford much downtime? As our main specialisation is moving Unix-based environments ..read more

Intro 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.  Access and IAM Resource groups As said many times before, plan your IBM Cloud access carefully. In order to start that, you should get acquainted with the principles of the resources groups. Resource groups are a convenient way to organize the deploy ..read more

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’ draw. However at L3C we specialise in bringing your legacy IBM AIX, Oracle Solaris and HPUX workloads into a cloud model complementing your public cloud strategy meaning your legacy environments needn’t constrain your evolution. As our short ..read more