Cloud and Cyber Resilience Drive SAP Modernization at NetApp INSIGHT

As SAP customers accelerate SAP S/4HANA migrations, cloud resilience and security top the agenda at NetApp INSIGHT 2025, one of the premier data infrastructure conferences, taking place October 14-16 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The event’s emphasis on cloud transformation and cyber resilience offers critical insights for SAP technology executives navigating complex modernization initiatives.

NetApp INSIGHT 2025 focuses on four strategic pillars directly relevant to SAP environments: data infrastructure modernization, cloud transformation, cyber resilience, and AI innovation. The conference’s comprehensive session catalog addresses the fundamental challenges SAP organizations face when balancing digital transformation ambitions with operational continuity requirements.

Ensuring Continuity and Innovation in SAP Cloud Landscapes

The conference highlights how financial services organizations can maintain uninterrupted operations during cloud migration through dedicated sessions, such as “Cloud Resilience for Financial Services—Without Compromise.” This session demonstrates how Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP empowers financial institutions to preserve high standards of availability, performance, and data protection in cloud environments.

At the same time, NetApp positions its platform as a foundation for AI innovation in enterprise workloads, including SAP. In the session “Unleash AI Innovation with your Data with the NetApp platform,” leaders showcase how enterprise data can fuel GenAI initiatives securely across data centers and multi-cloud landscapes. Attendees learn how NetApp enables simplified AI adoption for inferencing, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and model training, while providing strong data governance.

Real-World SAP Disaster Recovery and Compliance Examples

EssilorLuxottica transformation journey, featured in the session “EssilorLuxottica Brazil’s Journey to Data Consolidation and Disaster Recovery with NetApp,” provides a concrete example of enterprise-scale infrastructure standardization. The company successfully standardized storage infrastructure across multiple facilities in Brazil. They accomplished this feat using NetApp All-Flash solutions, achieving enhanced data protection, performance, and reliability across multiple regions.

The deployment leveraged key NetApp technologies including MetroCluster for disaster recovery, SnapCenter for application-consistent backup and recovery, SnapMirror for data replication, BlueXP Classification for data governance, and Active IQ for predictive analytics and monitoring. These technologies directly address SAP requirements for business continuity, disaster recovery, and scalability.

What This Means for SAPinsiders

Cloud-first strategies become operationally feasible for mission-critical SAP workloads. Technology executives can now confidently evaluate cloud deployment options without sacrificing the availability requirements that SAP environments demand. The EssilorLuxottica Brazil case study illustrates that enterprise-wide standardization across multiple locations is possible while maintaining data protection and regulatory compliance.

Disaster recovery planning shifts from reactive to predictive operational models. Active IQ’s predictive analytics capabilities, combined with MetroCluster’s synchronous replication and SnapMirror’s flexible data protection, enable SAP administrators to identify potential issues before they affect business operations. According to NetApp, this change from traditional backup-focused methods to intelligent, automated recovery orchestration reduces both planned and unplanned downtime considerably.

Regulatory compliance becomes an integrated part of SAP landscapes rather than an add-on. Cloud Volumes ONTAP’s data sovereignty features and BlueXP Classification’s governance tools help organizations stay compliant across multiple regions without needing separate compliance systems. SAP organizations can potentially lower compliance costs and boost audit readiness with automated classification and protection processes.