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SAP on Azure Executive Summary SAP and Microsoft together Simplified infrastructure management, faster time-to-market, and lower costs Interoperability for shorter development cycles and reduced costs SAP and Microsoft have tested and certified Microsoft Azure infrastructure against standards used for on-premises infrastructure Streamlined support process for escalation, SLAs, and resources Only Microsoft provides One Cloud OS across private, public, and hybrid clouds One management solution for on-premises and online environments Unified platform that is enterprise-grade, hybrid, and people-focused Support agreement for SAP solutions and database on Microsoft Azure Enterprise-ready infrastructure with global presence under familiar enterprise agreements Dynamic application delivery at lower prices
Challenges Time delays and lack of focus Capacity planning is costly Provisioning on limited capacity
Benefits Increased efficiency Lower cost Agile provisioning
Use cases with Microsoft Azure Use cases How Microsoft Azure helps How organizations benefit Make timely changes to SAP workloads by development teams 200 300 times faster infrastructure provisioning and rollout compared to on-premises; faster changes by SAP application teams. Increased agility and the ability to provision instances within 20 minutes. Fund intermittently used development and test infrastructure for SAP workloads Supports the ability to stop development and test systems at the end of the business day. Savings of as much as 40 75 percent in hosting costs by exercising the ability to stop instances when not in use. Increase data center capacity to serve new SAP project requests Frees on-premises data center capacity by moving development and test for SAP workloads to Microsoft Azure without up-front investments. Flexibility to shift from capital to operational expenditures. Provide consistent training environments based on templates Ability to store and use pre-defined images of the training environment for new virtual machines. Cost savings by provisioning only the instances needed for training, and then deleting them when the event is complete. Deliver automated Disaster Recovery with low RPO and RTO Azure Recovery Services replicates on-premise Virtual Machines to Azure and orchestrates failover and failback. RPO and RTO is reduced and the cost of ownership of DR infrastructure is reduced. While the DR systems replicating the only cost incurred is storage Archive historical systems for auditing and governance Supports migration of physical machines to virtual machines that can be switched on when needed. Savings of as much as 60 percent due to cheaper storage and the ability to quickly spin up systems based on need.
SAP on Microsoft Azure Supported platforms SAP NetWeaver 7.x platform SAP Applications based on NetWeaver 7.x Technologies SAP HANA Developer Edition SAP Business All-In-One Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 and later versions SUSE Linux for SAP HANA Developer Edition For supported virtual machine sizes and sizing information, please check SAP OSS note #1928533
Microsoft Cloud OS Microsoft vision of the unified platform for modern business Enterprise-grade Global reach plus scale and security to meet business demands Hybrid design One consistent platform across multiple environments and clouds People-focused Extends existing IT and developer skill sets to the cloud
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What is Microsoft Azure? Open and flexible cloud platform Enables platform-as-aservice (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-aservice (IaaS) cloud computing models Integration Heterogeneity Security On-premises and cloud Open, broad, flexible Trustworthy Enterprise-ready by design
Microsoft Azure fundamentals Open and flexible cloud platform Virtualization Identity Data platform Development Dev ops and management
Microsoft Azure fundamentals Open and flexible cloud platform Security Transparency Relationship Experience Transparency Unparalleled experience in online security Trustworthy Today, Microsoft manages 200+ global services that run 24x7: 9.9 billion messages per day via Windows Live Messenger 600 million unique users monthly on Windows Live and MSN 1 petabyte+ of updates served monthly via Windows Update 5 million Live Meeting conference minutes per year 200 billion+ authentications through Microsoft Azure Active Directory
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Microsoft Azure infrastructure Open and flexible cloud platform App services Cloud services Mobile services Caching Identity Service bus Websites Integration HPC Media Analytics Virtual machines Virtual network Data services SQL Server Database HDInsight Table Blob storage VPN Infrastructure SAP on Azure services and IaaS Virtual machines Virtual network VPN Traffic manager VPN
Customer use case Kordia is a telecommunications company focused on business users Business problem Kordia needed to upgrade its missioncritical SAP environment and patch SAP workloads. They also wanted a quick and costeffective way to clone their SAP production system, apply SAP patches, and hand it over to business users for testing without affecting business. Solution Kordia hosted their SAP Business Suite development and test systems on Microsoft Azure. Doing this allowed Kordia to shut down production clones and resume them at any time. They shut down virtual machines running on Microsoft Azure during non working hours. Benefits Kordia saved up to 70% compared to traditional hosting models.
Customer use case Zespri The largest Kiwifruit brand in the world Business problem Zespri was looking to transform its infrastructure environment to Microsoft Azure to increase organizational agility and reduce costs. Solution The company moved 13 virtual machines for their SAP development environment into the Azure cloud. Performance to date of the systems is within their acceptance criteria. Benefits The ability to re-provision virtual machines with a couple of clicks provided the agility to make changes without impacting time or budget constraints. Running SAP landscapes on Azure provides the performance they need and the ability to deliver value to their business.
Customer use case Global audit, tax, and consulting services company Business problem The company needed a faster and less expensive way to manage productionlevel test environments for their development team. Developers were wasting their time setting up test environments instead of adding business value with application improvements. Solution The company is moving its productionlevel quality assurance, running on SQL Server DB, for their global SAP implementation to Microsoft Azure (450 instances in existing setup). Benefits Savings range from 40 75 percent from lower costs to host SAP on Microsoft Azure and from the ability to turn off unused resources High level of agility in managing and provisioning the environment (provisioning in hours, not weeks) Consistency in creation of environment and images Cost savings estimated to be greater than $3 million per year
Customer use case Global snack food company Business problem The company was looking to replace its current expensive outsourcing contract for SAP systems because it had no way to control costs. Solution The company wanted to move 126 historic systems from a physical data center to Microsoft Azure. It was necessary to convert all systems from older Oracle, MaxDB, and AIX solutions to Windows Server and SQL Server. The company planned to use the Fastrak Management Center to provision environments. Benefits Computed savings of as much as 75 percent for hosting costs by switching off unused resources Ability to target to the minute when systems run and be charged accordingly Computed dramatic reduction in support costs due to a consistent, modern OS and database Cost savings estimated at more than $1.5 million per year
Customer use case Global audit, tax, and consulting services company Business problem The company needed a way to quickly deploy demonstration systems for new client training without having to invest in new hardware. Solution The company is moving their 54 internal partner demo systems to Microsoft Azure with the ability to rapidly replicate each of the systems for client training. Using Fastrak Management Center to provision environments. Benefits Saving up to 75% compared to traditional hosting models. Consistent Golden copy that can be rapidly updated and replicated. Cost savings estimated to be greater than $1 million per year.
Customer use case Global medical technology company Business problem The company realized that they could save costs by moving their SAP Business Suite training environment to the cloud. Solution The company is moving their 37 Sun/Oracle systems with 5 terabytes of associated storage to Microsoft Azure. Using Fastrak Management Center to provision environments. Benefits Saving up to 50% compared to traditional hosting models. Agility to update and provision training system only when required. Cost savings estimated to be greater than $1 million per year.
Microsoft Azure for SAP Scope definition IaaS deployment options for SAP Key considerations Microsoft Azure only SAP systems deployment is not connected to the on-premises domain. SAP systems are not part of operational procedures within the rest of the SAP landscape. Hybrid IT The on-premises domain is extended to Microsoft Azure. SAP systems in Microsoft Azure are fully integrated into operational procedures and processes. SAP Cloud Appliance Library Deploy preconfigured SAP solutions to Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure supports the following: Two-tier (system and database on the same image) Three-tier (system on one image, database on the other image) Environments have the following qualities: Cannot be blended across premises and cloud Can be run fully in Microsoft Azure and connected via remote desktop or.sap file Can connect to on-premises data centers through VPN (VNET) to look like part of on-premises networks
How to buy Azure for SAP solutions Through Microsoft and Azure preferred resellers Extend Enterprise Agreement Direct subscription to Microsoft Azure Note: Microsoft does not resell SAP solutions. SAP does not resell Azure services
Where can you learn more? More information SAP and Microsoft Alliance http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/partners/sap.aspx Microsoft Azure http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/ SAP Business Suite http://www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/index.epx SAP Cloud Appliance Library http://cal.sap.com/subscription/?pguid=d21f5b3b-1f36-4c28-bf66-866840894ec0 Microsoft Azure PowerShell http://msdn.microsoft.com/enus/library/windowsazure/jj 156055.aspx Microsoft Azure calculations http://www.windowsazure.com/enus/pricing/calculator/? scenario=full