Exit aging infrastructure without disrupting your business
Move IBM Power workloads to Azure with minimal disruption
Kyndryl Cloud Uplift (formerly Skytap) helps you move IBM Power workloads to Azure without rewriting or refactoring your applications. Reduce data center costs, avoid hardware refresh cycles, and preserve the systems your business depends onwhile gaining access to Azure's scalability, resilience, AI, analytics, and cloud-native services.
Whether your priority is data center exit, hardware refresh avoidance, disaster recovery, or application modernization, Kyndryl Cloud Uplift provides a practical path forward that lets you modernize at your own pace.
Why choose Kyndryl Cloud Uplift?
Fast exit, zero disruption
Migrate AIX, IBM i, and x86 workloads to Azure without rewriting or refactoring — on your schedule, with minimal risk and no production disruption.
Reduce infrastructure costs
Shift from CapEx to OpEx with Azure Marketplace billing (MACC where eligible). Eliminate capital-intensive maintenance and only pay for what you use with a pay-as-you-go consumption model.
Self-service, on-demand capacity
Provision, scale, and retire native IBM Power LPARs in Azure in minutes, with no tickets or wait time. Gain cloud-based scalability, automated backups, and disaster recovery while using existing tools.
Built-in resilience
Protect mission-critical workloads with enterprise-grade high availability and disaster recovery. Kyndryl Cloud Uplift delivers 99.95% uptime across Azure regions with simplified testing and deployment.
Unlock Azure innovation
Support legacy and modern workloads side by side. Access Azure AI, analytics, storage, and DevOps services while extending your on-premises environments into cloud-native architectures.
Modernize at your pace
Adopt cloud capabilities without forced rewrites. Modernize incrementally, retaining your existing workflows and skills while adding cloud services when and where they make sense.
Use cases
Data center exit
Accelerate your exit from costly, aging data centers without disrupting your business. Kyndryl Cloud Uplift helps you move IBM Power and x86 workloads to Azure without rewriting or refactoring applications, allowing you to retire legacy infrastructure while preserving the systems your business depends on.
Costly hardware refreshes
Avoid costly hardware refresh cycles and extend the life of your IBM Power applications. Move existing AIX, IBM i, and Linux on Power workloads to Azure without rewriting or refactoring, reducing infrastructure costs while simplifying infrastructure management and improving long-term operational efficiency.
Unlock Azure innovation
Move IBM Power workloads to Azure without rewriting applications, then unlock Azure AI, Microsoft Fabric, analytics, integration services, DevOps, and cloud-native capabilities at the pace that's right for your business.
High availability and disaster recovery
Protect mission-critical IBM Power workloads with enterprise-grade high availability and disaster recovery. Replicate production environments in Azure to automate backups, simplify testing, and enable rapid failover so your applications remain available when it matters most.
Skills gap
Address shrinking IBM Power expertise without disrupting the business. Kyndryl Cloud Uplift helps you retain existing applications while simplifying operations and giving your teams access to Azure services and Kyndryl's deep IBM Power expertise.
Customer success with Kyndryl Cloud Uplift
Insurance and wealth management company
A multinational company exited its data center and improved agility through cloud transformation using Kyndryl Cloud Uplift.
Steel producer
A global steel producer used Kyndryl Cloud Uplift to enable rapid disaster recovery of critical ERP systems with cloud migration.
Migrate and modernize with Kyndryl Cloud Uplift
See how Kyndryl Cloud Uplift works
Unlock cloud innovation by moving IBM Power and x86 workloads to Azure—no rewriting or refactoring required.
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Your top questions
Yes — Kyndryl Cloud Uplift is the evolution of Skytap on Azure. Kyndryl acquired Skytap in 2024 and integrated its capabilities under the Cloud Uplift brand. Customers will continue to use the same platform and features, which are now backed by Kyndryl expertise.
Kyndryl Cloud Uplift offers a 99.95% availability SLA and runs in Azure datacenters worldwide, including the US, Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, India, Japan, and Australia. Your environments stay close to the users and systems that rely on them.
Yes. Kyndryl Cloud Uplift supports virtual IT labs for training, demos, and proofs of concept. You can provision hands-on environments in minutes and customize them for customer workshops, enablement sessions, and POCs.
Learn more about using Kyndryl Cloud Uplift for virtual IT labs.
Existing customers with a Kyndryl Cloud Uplift subscription can access their account here.