Leading Beverage Manufacturer Protects Critical SAP ERP in AWS EC2 Cloud
Key Takeaways
⇨ Cloud Migration Success: The beverage manufacturer successfully migrated their SAP ERP system to AWS EC2, leveraging SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux to achieve 99.99% uptime and disaster recovery without relying on traditional SAN storage.
⇨ High Availability and Performance: SIOS LifeKeeper provided robust high availability and performance by ensuring continuous monitoring and failover orchestration, meeting the manufacturer’s stringent recovery objectives and handling peak demand efficiently.
⇨ Effortless Operation: The solution enabled minimal downtime, even during planned maintenance, allowing the IT staff to focus on enhancing productivity and business operations with minimal ongoing maintenance effort.
The company relies on an SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) system running in a Red Hat Linux environment
to manage a variety of critical business operations. The SAP environment comprises a variety of services including the
ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming), SAP Central Services (ASCS), Evaluated Receipt Settlement,
Web Dispatcher and the DB2 database.
They used a large Storage Area Network (SAN) for data storage. The core SAP ERP applications handle all business operations across the company’s beverage division. In their on-premises data center, the company provided uptime protection for this system using data replication and backups of the SAN.
After extensive evaluation, the company chose to move their SAP environment to Amazon EC2. They established four key criteria for evaluating their choices for an HA/DR solution.
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SIOS delivers innovative software solutions that provide application high availability and disaster protection for
Windows and Linux environments. SIOS clustering software provides the flexibility to build clusters to protect your choice of Windows or Linux environment – and any configuration (or combination) of physical, virtual and cloud (public, private, and hybrid) storage – without sacrificing performance or availability. Founded in 1999, SIOS Technology Corp., is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and has offices throughout the United States, and in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan.
