RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server

Designed for faster and non-disruptive move to RISE with SAP

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Faster and non-disruptive move to RISE with SAP

For over half a century, enterprises have used IBM's infrastructure to host their mission-critical SAP systems for round-the-clock operations and safeguarding sensitive business data. As the next step to help accelerate their move to Cloud ERP, IBM and SAP have launched new hyperscaler option for SAP Cloud ERP Private, using the RISE with SAP methodology.

IBM and SAP launch new hyperscaler option for SAP Cloud ERP
Benefits #1

Ranked in availability among SAP-certified servers.

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14x

Fewer critical vulnerabilities and exposures in hypervisor of Power servers since 2020 as compared to SAP-certified clouds using other hypervisors*.

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90 days

Designed to move SAP S/4HANA workloads from IBM Power Systems on-premises to cloud within 90 days.

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Migration stages for RISE with SAP
Investment program

To help ease customers transition to RISE with SAP on Power Virtual Server, IBM is launching a customized investment program to support early-stage technical assessments by SIs or resell partners, migration execution, and the deployment of surrounding non-RISE (SAP and non-SAP) workloads to cloud.

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Intelligent SAP Cloud ERP Private workflow automation with IBM watsonx

Bring the power of agentic AI to your current workflows, automations and applications with IBM watsonx. Tap into structured and unstructured data from SAP and non-SAP data sources for better insights, actions and outcomes.

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One of the industry’s largest RISE with SAP implementation

"This upgrade of SAP lays a foundation for AI and solving more complex problems. As we continue to build on this, the foundation must remain secured and resilient. This is where security and availability of SAP landscape on IBM Power Virtual Server and IBM Cloud comes into play. Since the go-live, we have been running with 100% availability, no outages." Sirish Gottimukkala, Director for IT Delivery, IBM

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IBM Transformation Suite for SAP Applications

To further accelerate Cloud ERP migration, IBM Transformation Suite for SAP Applications brings software and services from IBM and partners such as SNP that automates essential migration tasks, including technical assessments, data and code migration, code analysis, and automated testing.

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The Struggle to Migrate SAP to the Cloud Just Got Easier

IDC research has found that: Top reasons for moving SAP workloads to IaaS include high performance, robust data protection, and strong cloud migration support. For SAP HANA specifically, organizations prioritize data control, seamless integration across the SAP landscape, and enhanced transactional and analytics performance. When selecting an IaaS provider, key factors are superior security, leading virtualized performance, and cost efficiency.

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Footnotes

*14x fewer hypervisor CVEs in PowerVM compared to hypervisors in other SAP-certified clouds based on NIST vulnerability database records for PowerVM, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM. Data as of 6th May 2025.