You Can Run Power on Microsoft Azure

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Skytap runs IBM Power workloads natively run AIX, IBM i, Linux on Power inside Microsoft Azure on S922 hardware Microsoft deploys, with no emulation, supporting mixed x86 components. Built features include environments as virtual data centers, templates, cloning, VM sequencing and a browser console. Proven at customers: production manufacturing moved off‑prem, DR streaming ~6 million transactions/day with zero data loss, an ISV validated SUSE on Power in a week, virtual labs scaling to ~150 attendees. Network latency ~4–5 ms over VPN, pricing by GB‑RAM‑hour.

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2. 1:50Capabilities
3. 4:30Use Cases
4. 10:13Network Architecture
5. 13:00Demo
6. 21:32Availability

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