{"id":33743,"date":"2019-06-20T17:04:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcadsoftware.com\/?p=33743"},"modified":"2021-07-27T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T13:58:56","slug":"arcad-and-skytap-announce-global-partnership-to-deliver-devops-for-ibm-i-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arcadsoftware.com\/arcad\/news-events\/arcad-press-articles\/arcad-and-skytap-announce-global-partnership-to-deliver-devops-for-ibm-i-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"ARCAD and Skytap announce global partnership to deliver Application Modernization and DevOps for IBM i in the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANNECY – 25 June, 2019<\/em> \u2013 ARCAD Software, international leader in DevOps and Modernization solutions, today announced their partnership with Skytap, global cloud provider delivering an industry-first, multi-tenant public cloud offering for IBM i.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new partnership targets the modernization of legacy IBM i toolchains by making the ARCAD for DevOps solution for continuous build, test and deploy (CI\/CT\/CD) available on demand from within a Skytap Cloud environment on IBM i.\u00a0 This combined offering brings RPG source code management and the entire IBM i application delivery pipeline into the cloud, using enterprise-grade open source tooling such as Git and Jenkins.<\/p>\n

For organizations with mission-critical applications running on IBM i, the use of ARCAD and Skytap Cloud will allow the easy creation, replication and disposal of test and training environments and deliver instant, production-ready environments on demand.\u00a0 Everything from small application fixes, to the testing of major architectural changes can be processed in parallel, reducing IT timescales, cost and risk.<\/p>\n

Where Skytap provides IBM i customers with a highly flexible multi-tenant public cloud experience and the ability to easily scale up and down capacity, ARCAD\u2019s DevOps offering delivers the unique “dependency-based” build, test and deploy capability needed to rapidly and reliably provision Skytap\u2019s self-service IBM i environments.<\/p>\n

Michel Mouchon, Vice President of Strategy at ARCAD Software, highlighted the complementarity of the ARCAD and Skytap offerings:<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving ARCAD\u2019s complete CI\/CT\/CD functionality available on Skytap Cloud is ground-breaking for IBM i customers, giving them the ability to rapidly spin up and instantly provision IBM i environments on demand.\u00a0 This opens the possibilities for an entirely new way of managing the application lifecycle – including highly efficient use of temporary test, QA and training environments.\u00a0 Test data can also be automatically anonymized for data protection compliance. \u00a0For many IBM i customers whose competitive advantage lies in their custom-built applications, the combination of ARCAD\u2019s DevTestOps and integrated application transformation tooling on Skytap Cloud is a risk-free way to derive maximal value from IBM i.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further, as Skytap assists customers with the moving of traditional applications into a modern cloud infrastructure, ARCAD\u2019s application modernization solutions automate the transformation of source code, database and UI to modern standards and the shift to a flexible n-tier application architecture based on webservices.<\/p>\n

Karri Alexion-Tiernan, SVP of Product Marketing at Skytap stressed the importance of DevOps tooling to their customers as they shift to more agile software delivery:\u00a0 “DevOps and cloud are closely linked.\u00a0 Skytap\u2019s self-service access to production-ready environments, combined with a modern CI\/CD toolchain, enables application teams to release higher quality software faster.\u00a0 ARCAD\u2019s DevOps solutions are unique in providing the deep application dependency knowledge needed to automate and optimize the continuous integration, testing and deployment of IBM i applications”.<\/p>\n

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