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What is SAP Infrastructure?
Rapidly evolving from historical on-premise servers to private, public, and hybrid cloud and cloud-like environments, SAP infrastructure includes the systems, hardware, and platforms on which SAP systems and applications are run. Originally, SAP Infrastructure was limited to mainframe computers, though that changed with the client/server architecture included in the SAP R/3 release. While client environments have typically been Microsoft Windows-based systems, host environments normally included Unix systems. Over time, this shifted to include servers running Linux operating systems, though these were still located in data centers local to an organization’s physical locations.
What is SAP Infrastructure?
Rapidly evolving from historical on-premise servers to private, public, and hybrid cloud and cloud-like environments, SAP infrastructure includes the systems, hardware, and platforms on which SAP systems and applications are run. Originally, SAP Infrastructure was limited to mainframe computers, though that changed with the client/server architecture included in the SAP R/3 release. While client environments have typically been Microsoft Windows-based systems, host environments normally included Unix systems. Over time, this shifted to include servers running Linux operating systems, though these were still located in data centers local to an organization’s physical locations.
SAP Infrastructure now includes on-premise or local data centers, private cloud environments or hosting partners, public cloud and managed service providers, and hybrid combinations of these environments. SAP’s transition to a cloud-based company has resulted in a rapidly growing number of solutions and offerings being entirely cloud based, which in turn means that more SAP workloads are moving to the cloud. While these are not always public cloud or hyperscale environments, the infrastructure supporting SAP systems is more cloud based each year.
Organizations offering SAP Infrastructure solutions include: Atos, AWS, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, HPE, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, Navisite, NTT Data, Nutanix, Rackspace Technology, Virtustream, and VMware.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders:
- SAP Infrastructure continues to move towards the cloud, but SAP S/4HANA remains top of mind when it comes to infrastructure planning. As organizations make plans for the future, they need to determine what their future infrastructure should be. For many this revolves around SAP S/4HANA, while others are simply looking to eliminate older legacy infrastructure by doing a lift and shift to the cloud. This panel discusses what the priorities for organizations have been for SAP Infrastructure, where SAP S/4HANA plays into the picture, what technologies are areas of investment, and what impact RISE with SAP is having.
- SAP workloads, and the infrastructure that they are running on, are moving to the cloud. Based on research conducted by SAPinsider, 88% of organizations are running at least some SAP workloads in the cloud. While this isn’t every system, most of those who are still running workloads in on-premise infrastructure say that they plan on moving those systems to the cloud within the next two years. This article covers which workloads are still running on local infrastructure, which are most likely to be running in the cloud, and what approach organizations are taking when it comes to moving those workloads.
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Supporting a Transformative FutureSep 29, 2023 — Digital transformation projects continue to accelerate in response to requirements for sustainability, compliance, and AI. Addressing these challenges requires finding the best mix of environments to support those needs. This should involve a combination of public cloud, private cloud, on-premise, and hybrid infrastructure based on the specific needs of the organization in question. Some organizations favor flexible environments for development and testing because they provide agility and business value as they can be easily spun up and shut down as required. But when it comes to quality assurance and production, it is vital that systems are robust and ensure control of data. Choosing the right landscape is vital to the long-term success of any transformation project.
More than two thirds of organizations are planning or performing some sort of transformation. This could be infrastructure based but is just as likely to involve updating business processes or redesigning business models. Choosing the right landscape to ensure the success of these projects is crucial to their overall success It should involve the best mix of infrastructure to support current and future needs.
o Ensure that the landscape that is selected for the business transfromation is one that will provide flexibility around infrastructure, implementation, and services.
o Most organizations underestimate the space and memory capacity of their transformation projects. Ensuring that any infrastructure chosen has the capacity to expand is key.
o While many organizations have transformation projects underway, these may not yet include a move off existing ERP environments. Organizations must ensure that choices made today will support any future ERP projects.
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Video: How Do You Better Manage Systems and Improve Resilience?Apr 21, 2023 — Organizations today need to keep their business solutions up and running, and infrastructure providers have been focused on activities that help organizations accelerate implementations and reduced both planned and unplanned downtime. However, enterprise landscapes can often be complex to both implement and maintain. This is particularly true for SAP landscapes where there are often multiple systems, multiple instances of those systems, and connectivity and integration that must remain functional.
But beyond the issues of implementation and configuration, system complexity can often cause issues to develop over time. When an update is performed, or a patch implemented, or a system configuration changed, small issues can accumulate in the system that can often remain unnoticed until they accumulate sufficiently to cause a problem. This can occur even when systems are initially configured using best practices. The challenge that organizations face is in finding and identifying these issues before they cause problems.
In this video interview with Sherry Yu, Director of SAP Success Architect at SUSE, we discuss the resilience challenges facing organizations today, how system administration concerns can add more complexity, and how these challenges can be addressed.
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How to Add Value and Mitigate Risk for an SAP ImplementationMar 29, 2023 — Click Here to View the Session Deck SAP implementation services give organizations the support they need to deploy SAP solutions that allow their company to grow successfully. Adding value and mitigating the risks of the implementation process will be shared in the lessons learned on SAP implementations. View this session deck to: Identify relevant areas […]
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Impact20: How AWS and SUSE Helped Customers Modernize and Build a Resilient SAP LandscapeMar 29, 2023 — Click Here to View the Session Deck Are you planning to migrate and modernize your SAP applications in cloud, optimize operation, and reduce risk. During this session, experts from AWS and SUSE will take a case study of an industry leading energy provider, demonstrate how early adoption of AWS cloud and hosting mission critical SAP […]
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Your Super User Plan Fell Apart After Your Project Ended?Mar 29, 2023 — Click Here to View the Session Deck Did your Super User plan solve your end user support issues? Are your users getting accurate, timely, and relevant transaction execution support? Are end user errors essentially non-existent? Are work arounds a thing of the past? Is business engagement and ownership at an all-time high? If you answered […]
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SAP Cloud Application Security GovernanceMar 28, 2023 — Click Here to View the Session Deck Cloud technologies are being increasingly adopted by organizations, regardless of their size, location or industry. When implementing these new technologies, most of organizations face the following challenges: Lack of operating model and clearly defined roles and responsibilities, lack of embedded management operational controls around application security, and lack […]
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Video: Building a Platform for the FutureMar 13, 2023 — While most organizations are in the process of updating or transforming their SAP landscape over the next few years, there are a number of challenges that they must address to complete this successfully. One of the biggest of these challenges is the move to SAP S/4HANA, something nearly a quarter of the respondents to recent SAPinsider research are trying to coordinate with their infrastructure changes. But the other decisions they must make can be just as important. How can systems be moved to the cloud? What is the right cloud environment and platform to use? How can supply chain stability be ensured? How sustainable is new infrastructure? What happens to an existing landscape after it is replaced? All these are questions that must be answered by organizations planning infrastructure change.
In this video interview with Andreas Schmidt, Offering Manager for SAP Digitalization at T-Systems, we discuss the challenges facing organizations today, what they need to build platforms for the future, and why it is critical that they find the right hosting partner.
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Building a Platform for the FutureFeb 9, 2023 — Organizations are in the process of transitioning many of their workloads to the cloud. This is particularly true of SAP systems where there is frequently a need for new infrastructure that will provide additional flexibility and scalability while reducing cost. Cloud environments are the most likely choice for organizations as they seek to create a platform for the future, but there are important questions that must be answered as these landscape transformation and digitization projects get underway.
To better understand these challenges, SAPinsider sat down with Andreas Schmidt, Offering Manager for SAP Digitalization at T-Systems. Schmidt says that many organizations that he works with are in the process of moving to SAP S/4HANA and planning a digitalization process for which they already have a roadmap. But the challenge they face is that there is no common approach to that deployment. Every landscape is unique, and each organization has different priorities and constraints that need to be considered. Many of these organizations are looking for advice as they create their roadmaps to address these challenges.
- Deploying a platform for the future involves answering questions around sustainability, innovations, and integration with other applications.
- Finding the right partner to assist with these challenges can help ensure the success of these deployments.
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Video: Building Cloud Infrastructure in Your LandscapeDec 28, 2022 — In order to run today’s SAP systems, you need infrastructure that will not just support SAP HANA, but that which will provide the foundation for future innovation. While some organizations are looking at the cloud to meet these infrastructure needs, others continue to invest in local infrastructure. But the option of a managed environment on-premise that provides both a cloud like experience and an operational expenditure cost may be a third option that you hadn’t considered.
In this video interview with Sunil Patel, Director of Worldwide Ecosystem Sales and Alliances at HPE, and Richard Jones, Senior Product Manager for HPE GreenLake for SAP, we discuss how organizations are looking at using a managed environment on-premise to provide that cloud-like experience in their own data centers.
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