SAP Solution: Openstack

Software and performance testing free of license costs using open source resources sounds tempting. But does the whole thing also work under conditions of high scalability?

More and more SAP customers aim for a hybrid cloud or multi-cloud approach. Linux can serve as the foundation—also in combination with container technologies like Kubernetes.

Linux is becoming increasingly important for Hana or SAP S/4 Hana as well as for data center transition and cloud computing.

There are lights and shadows in SAP's strategy analysis: The Linux decision was absolutely right!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote in the first part of Faust as credits to the witch's one-time: Usually man believes, if he hears only words, it must be possible to think thereby also something!

Are SolMan 7.2, NetWeaver, Hana 1 & 2, SoH and S/4 already digested, consolidated and customized? Probably not - right?

In the context of hybrid cloud scenarios, it is advantageous to use components that ensure technology consistency. With Suse Linux Enterprise for SAP, deployments and transitions of SAP applications are supported both on-premise and off-premise.

How can a cloud infrastructure for SAP midmarket be built based on OpenStack that is optimized for short provisioning times? Suse, Thomas Krenn and FIS-ASP have created an offer for the midmarket.

There is a certain amount of catching up to do for SAP users when it comes to digitization. The new DSAG survey brought this to light. Infrastructure innovation for this - standards based on open source - is available. You just have to use them.

About a year ago, Microsoft and Suse deepened their partnership at a meeting in the USA. SAP brought together two IT companies that could become support and competition for the ERP world market leader from Walldorf.

Often, when I ask SAP ecosystem CEOs or executives to what extent open source is used in their company, I get the answer, "WE don't use any!"

The move to Hana and Hana-based SAP solutions like S/4 means a switch to Linux and open source - Suse: SLES for SAP Applications, Suse OpenStack Cloud and SAP Suse-Co Development Cloud Foundry.