SAP on the Cloud

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

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Dr.-Ing. Michael Missbach is the head of the SAP Cisco Competence Center in Walldorf, Germany. With 14 years of SAP experience, his work focuses currently on HANA and unified and stateless computing infrastructures for mission critical applications in public and private cloud scenarios. As a senior consultant he was responsible for the development of adaptive SAP infrastructures and the SAPS-meter Web service. Earlier, he worked as IT Superintendent for ALCOA and implemented outsourcing and network projects for GE. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and received his doctorate in Materials Science at what has become now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Thorsten Stärk always wanted to be an inventor - and has come close to it. He conducted COBOL trainings, published SAP benchmarks, designed HANA appliances and wrote a book on electronics. Thorsten works for VCE, an EMC company, as an SAP Solutions Engineer. In his role he strives to turn the paradigm of converged infrastructure into customer reality - always combining VMware virtualization, Cisco UCS hardware and EMC storage (VCE). His passion is to find out "why" no matter where. Cameron Gardiner is a developer working for Microsoft SQL Server R&D team based in Tokyo Japan. His role is to run Microsoft's customer facing development programs such as "First Customer Shipment" of new releases of Windows, SQL Server and new technologies such as SQL Server 2012 Column Store, Hyper-V 3.0 and cloud deployments. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked as a SAP Basis Consultant covering UNIX, Oracle and DB2 platforms. Cameron is a contributor to the popular SAP on SQL Server blog and has written numerous whitepapers on topics ranging from Hardware Technologies to Securing SAP systems on Microsoft platforms. He is a regular speaker at events and is an instructor teaching a course on SAP on Microsoft platforms to severalhundred students per year. His ambition is to transfer knowledge to allow customers to modernize their Business Critical Systems and benefit from modern high performance commodity platforms and cloud deployment options. Joshua McCloud is a cyber security Business Development Manager and Solutions Architect with Cisco's Asia Pacific Enterprise Networking organization. Joshua works across various industry sectors throughout Asia, using architectural approaches to help customers improve operational effectiveness in cyber security. Joshua has worked for over 19 years in the public and private sector environment supporting customers in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Joshua has deep expertise in the areas of architectural methodologies and frameworks, cyber security, cloud, IP mobility and military communications systems. Mag. Robert Madl, MBA serves as Sales Specialist for SAP projects at Cisco Systems where he takes care of SAP projects in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia. Prior joining Cisco he was a Business Architect for a SAP hosting provider and system vendor. Coming from cloud based mobile device development his journey as a consultant in IT business led him through automated software provisioning, high-level network design, datacentre infrastructure projects, automated resource provisioning projects for large-scale virtualization environments to UNIX migration and SAP HANA projects. With his experience spanning from organizational management to command-line knowledge he often acts as the link between business and engineering. He studied Information Management at the Johannes Kepler University Linz where he earned his master's degree and he earned his MBA in Sales Management at the LIMAK business school of Johannes Kepler University Linz. Mark Tempes is a Senior Architect and leads the SAP NetWeaver consulting team at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services South Pacific. He has more than 11 years of experience in the SAPservice market and his main focus is the management, delivery and sales of largescale SAP

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.