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Always-on, fast, global, secure, compliant — these qualities are now table stakes with respect to software applications. No company can survive today without meeting these criteria.
Yet, the increasingly complex infrastructure ranging from legacy mainframes, modern distributed servers, hybrid data storage, and private/public cloud, has become a challenge for IT teams to manage. More and more companies rely on expert-managed data centers to keep their systems and data operating, available, and secure.
The management of infrastructure — whether co-located on the company’s premises, remotely managed, or fully outsourced data centers, as well as private and public cloud — now require tremendous expertise of specialized data center operators. With their scale and expertise, operators are able to meet the service-level agreements (SLAs) of their clients with respect to availability, performance, and costs.
SAP Data Center
Always-on, fast, global, secure, compliant — these qualities are now table stakes with respect to software applications. No company can survive today without meeting these criteria.
Yet, the increasingly complex infrastructure ranging from legacy mainframes, modern distributed servers, hybrid data storage, and private/public cloud, has become a challenge for IT teams to manage. More and more companies rely on expert-managed data centers to keep their systems and data operating, available, and secure.
The management of infrastructure — whether co-located on the company’s premises, remotely managed, or fully outsourced data centers, as well as private and public cloud — now require tremendous expertise of specialized data center operators. With their scale and expertise, operators are able to meet the service-level agreements (SLAs) of their clients with respect to availability, performance, and costs.
The Advantages of SAP Data Centers
SAP also manages and provides its data centers in several regional locations around the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. The wide choice of locations is important to meet requirements such as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679) and other country-specific regulations which may require customer data to reside within country borders.
SAP data centers are built and run according to industry standards for power, cooling, redundancy, backups, and physical and cyber security. SAP also operates a second data center in the region of the primary data center to handle disaster recovery.
Many companies are also committing to energy efficiency. Hence, SAP data centers have also invested in green energy and energy efficient infrastructure to help its customers meet their sustainability goals.
SAP Data Centers as the Basis for Cloud Computing
SAP data centers not only provide computing power for its customers, but also run SAP’s own cloud portfolio with more than 80 cloud services. Different solutions are offered based on customer need, including virtualization, multi-tenancy, adaptive, and edge computing. Most large customers end up using a hybrid approach based on their application portfolio.
According to SAPinsider’s own research, SAP workloads are moving to the cloud at an increasing rate: 88% of SAPinsiders are running at least some of their SAP workloads in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment. “Of the 12% who are running all their SAP workloads on internal infrastructure, or in a managed environment on-premise, nearly two-thirds say that they plan to move those workloads to the cloud within two years,” writes Robert Holland, Vice President and Research Director at SAPinsider.
SAP customers have an increasing choice of data center and cloud providers. CIOs must assess based on key criteria to build a solid infrastructure foundation to meet business needs.
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Home Delivery for SAP Cloud with Hewlett Packard EnterpriseJan 18, 2021 — As SAP companies begin to move their data and processes to SAP S/4HANA, the migration can be a very complex affair. Depending on how many integration points and data centers involved, this complexity can increase. Companies often benefit from having a plan in place that they developed based on the experiences of others. They look to partners, such as HPE, to offer recommendations from what they have seen as successes and failures. Based on HPE's own experience moving core business processes to SAP S/4HANA, this session gives insights into how HPE and other customers consolidated many legacy data centers to few fully controlled data centers.
Topics include:
- The benefits of moving to a "cloud at home" model
- An overview of the process improvements SAP customers can achieve
- Lessons learnings from organizations undergoing large SAP S/4HANA transformations
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Hospitality Company Replatforms Enterprise Data Warehouse to AzureJul 14, 2020 — The challenge of re-platforming this EDW was compounded by a very tight deadline. If missed, cost and contract penalties would be large. Find other insightful content from Protiviti on their Vendor Showcase
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Tips for Avoiding Common Pitfalls When Modernizing the SAP LandscapeMar 5, 2019 — New technologies such as internet of things (IoT) and machine learning pose new challenges to companies, and businesses are contemplating how and where to use them to improve their business. The key is to seamlessly put immense amounts of data to work and automate the routine, while securing the whole. Companies that want to achieve […]
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Tracing Cisco’s Blueprint for a Successful SAP Data CenterFeb 21, 2019 —
The traditional data center model is being expanded by a host of new technologies, such as the Internet of Things, data streaming, social media, and machine learning. To adapt to this new world, and to take full advantage of the latest technologies, companies must consider a data center transformation. But what does this look like for SAP customers? Learn how to support a modern SAP data center with platforms and solutions that meet unique organizational needs.
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Get Data From Any Table in Another SAP SystemJul 2, 2015 — Say you want to get the contents of a table from one of your SAP systems (called the source system) into a current system (called the client system). Most of the time if you want to access the table content of a source system, you need to: Check to see if the content is in […]
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Optimize Data Management in All Phases of Your SAP ImplementationJun 4, 2010 — Poor data management can lead to many problems, from incorrect data, to a lack of integration, to bad analysis. Learn ways an effective data management strategy can help you in your efforts to optimize your system’s performance while increasing your compliance and reducing cost. Key Concept Data management is a critical component of running a […]
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