Leading Manufacturer Bonfiglioli Uses SIOS DataKeeper to Move Business-Critical SAP ERP System to Cloud
Key Takeaways
⇨ SIOS DataKeeper enabled the successful migration of a business-critical SAP ERP system to Microsoft Azure by ensuring high availability and disaster recovery.
⇨ The company achieved its stringent SLAs for application performance and availability in the cloud using SIOS DataKeeper’s high availability solution.
⇨ Transitioning to Azure required SIOS DataKeeper to meet the challenges of providing cloud-ready architecture and superior protection compared to the previous on-premises environment.
A key component of their migration planning was ensuring that they could still meet strict SLAs for application performance and availability in the cloud. “Before we performed an OS and database migration of our SAP ERP
system, from AS400/DB2 to Microsoft Windows/SQL Server, we had to ensure that the new architecture would be
cloud-ready and that it would provide better high availability protection than before,” said Bovina.
Bonfiglioli is a leading Italian design manufacturing and distribution company that specializes in industrial automation, mobile machinery and wind energy products. With more than 3,600 employees in locations around the world, the company relies on its IT infrastructure and applications such as its business- critical SAP-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application to keep business operations running smoothly.
The company’s IT infrastructure is an on-premises VMware-based data center and a remote data center for business continuity/disaster protection.
Since most of their applications run on the Microsoft Windows operating system, they used guest-level Windows
Server failover clustering in their VMware environment to provide high availability and disaster protection.
SIOS Technology Corp. high availability and disaster recovery solutions ensure availability and eliminate data
loss for critical Windows and Linux applications operating across physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid cloud
environments. SIOS clustering software is essential for any IT infrastructure with applications requiring a high degree
of resiliency, ensuring uptime without sacrificing performance or data – protecting businesses from local
failures and regional outages, planned and unplanned.
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