Why run SAP applications managed on cloud?
According to research conducted by Frost & Sullivan, managed cloud services for SAP applications are now considered an essential part of the IT strategy for three out of four user companies. Choosing the right managed cloud services provider can help enterprises derive:
• Operational efficiency and security benefits: Improved security and compliance reporting for workloads; faster delivery of services and applications to line-of-business; improved disaster recovery and business continuity
• Financial and strategic benefits: Predictable, managed costs and resources for SAP workloads; contribution to company digital transformation journey; reduced hardware and software maintenance costs
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Benefits
Transform your SAP deployment with cloud managed services: Six lessons from users
Free up IT staff resources
Let IBM skilled resources perform time-consuming management and maintenance of SAP applications so your resources can focus on higher value projects that enable innovation.
Guaranteed SLAs
Choose the service-level agreement (SLA) you need — up to 99.9% — from the virtual machine to the operating system (OS) and up to the application level.
Around-the-clock security
Preemptive protection and rapid threat resolution help reduce potential damages and losses. Continuous monitoring and granular control can provide visibility into attacks before they affect your data and infrastructure.
Calculate potential savings
The cost benefits SAP estimator can help you identify key areas of savings that can be reinvested in innovation, IT labor optimization and reduced TCO.
Features
Frost & Sullivan: Improving your IT security and compliance with cloud managed services for SAP applications
Accelerate cloud adoption
Moving your SAP applications to IBM Cloud™ can improve your agility and speed time to market, increasing competitiveness and allowing you to better serve your lines of business.
Move to SAP HANA and multiple management options
IBM has been helping clients successfully move to HANA since 2014 and to deploy SAP workloads on either self-managed or fully managed cloud environments.
Multiple OS and DB support
IBM supports AIX®, Red Hat and Microsoft Windows operating systems and the most popular databases, including IBM DB2®, Oracle, Sybase ASE, SQL Server and HANA.
Resources
A CIO's guide to managed services and SAP cloud migration
Improving your IT security and compliance with cloud managed services
Enterprise applications and cloud managed services: 269 CIOs share their views
Find a strategic partner: How managed cloud services can facilitate your digital transformation
Increasing supply chain visibility with IBM Cloud Managed Application Services
How choosing the right managed cloud service provider can maximize the value of your SAP deployment
What's new
Sometimes you need to go big. Now you can, with large virtual SAP HANA running on IBM Power Systems™ in IBM Cloud and the ability to scale-up to 24 TB.
- Fully virtualized large HANA in cloud starting at 124 GB and scale up to 24 TB in 1 TB increments
- Ability to handle more transactions due to higher scaling capacity
- Grow quickly with minimal disruption — no need change server
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