This book explores the many facets of building and operating an SAP infrastructure exploiting Cloud technologies, describing and discussing the latest challenges and suitable solutions, and outlining future trends. Includes practice-oriented case studies.

This book provides an introduction to the various facets of building and operating an SAP infrastructure exploiting Cloud technologies. It describes and discusses the latest developments and challenges and suitable solutions, and also outlines future trends where possible. To ensure that this book is also useful to readers who do not consider themselves experts in this area, this book explains in detail the backgrounds of the various solutions. Also, practice-oriented case studies are provided throughout the book in order to make the reader aware of essential but perhaps less obvious points. However, the book concentrates exclusively on the set up and operation of the SAP infrastructure. It does not give details on how to install and customize the SAP software, nor does it deal with the much more complex tasks involved in business process implementation and reengineering.

Shows how enterprises can utilize the power of cloud computing for SAP applications Explains how cloud and in-memory applications can be used for mission critical applications Describes the benefits and pitfalls of running in-memory databases on private and public clouds

Autorentext
Michael Missbach is the author a several successful books on Enterprise Resource Planning systems. He is responsible for the SAP Competence Center at Cisco Systems.

Inhalt
1 From Adaptive Infrastructures to Cloud Computing.- 2 How the SAP Business Suite, NetWeaver and HANA fit to the cloud.- 3 Service Level Agreements for SAP on Cloud.- 4 Security of SAP in public and private clouds.- 5 Change and Configuration Management.- 6 How Private and Public Clouds Work.- 7 SAP solutions on public clouds.- 8 Private cloud infrastructures for SAP.- 9 Stateless computing for SAP on clouds.- 10 Economic and Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing.