Business Challenges
What if you could provision a complete SAP landscape in 10 minutes compared to the 4-6 weeks it often takes today? What if that landscape were already pre-seeded with all your relevant application content, contained all your custom business processes?
A recurring theme, whether for commercial SAP application hosters, internal hosters, test, training, demo centers and development centers, or similar enterprise groups, is that all of these run a number of landscapes of SAP enterprise applications. They need to continuously bring these application landscapes up, offer them to end users, tear them down, back them up, recover them, and reuse certain applications and configurations or whole landscapes. To deal with these challenges most organizations have adopted some level of server or storage virtualization. However, the need to address enterprise-class requirements for SAP products that are currently not available as a SaaS offering remains a huge impediment, especially concerning the reality of dealing with landscapes which consist of interdependent enterprise systems, not just single VMs.
Our Solutions
The fluid Operations™ eCloudManager™ with its Landscape as a Service (LaaS)™ concept for SAP enterprise applications enables organizations to maximize the utilization of their virtualization investment and deploy and manage their own private SAP cloud.
The ability to manage SAP environments not system by system, but rather holistically as tightly integrated landscapes, offers massive productivity improvements for IT departments. In this respect, the following core design concepts are critical:
- use of the complete IT stack, especially in view of storage-assisted cloning technologies, to handle mission-critical enterprise application requests on-demand
- high automation through one-click provisioning of complete multi-tiered multi-system landscapes, with no post-provisioning configuration effort needed
- heavy use of standardized application templates, e.g. ready-to-run SAP systems as virtual SAP appliances
- fine-grained metering and billing capabilities as part of an out of the box solution
Customer Benefits
- Dramatically reduce the time needed for SAP virtual infrastructure and cloud implementation and consolidation efforts
- Extend storage-based cloning and virtualization management environments such as VMware to support SAP environments
- Efficiently provision large numbers of virtual system landscapes without the need for SAP system post-provisioning work
- Build on SAP-tested Virtual Appliance templates, with reuse of custom versions for company-wide consistency and compliance
- Offer on-demand Landscapes as a Service to support internal initiatives
Interested?
Please contact us for more information or download the whitepaper “Making the Case for the Private SAP Cloud”.