Cloud

Lots of online storage services are available today. Online storage services are used to back up all of your files and data in a secured way. Many online storage service providers are there. But which one you will use? You can’t select blindly any of the online storage service. To …

Cloud A cloud application is one which you access over the internet and not your own computer’s hard disk. Today, everyone seems to be moving to the cloud. Cloud products are the latest in technology trends and all companies seem to be having some offering or the other on “cloud”. …

This weblog is the second in the series “S/4HANA on the Google Cloud Platform: Multi-cloud the good, the bad, the ugly” which showcases our experiences of the multi-cloud journey. This weblog will concentrate on “the bad” parts of converting an existing fully operational S/4HANA 1610 system from MS Azure to the …

Many businesses are moving toward cloud computing to reduce operating expenses. Instead of relying on in-house computer networking servers, cost cutters are using cloud providers to host their data. These third party cloud providers offer an internet-based network that originates from a secure data center that provides data services so …

The cloud is a great platform for proving the HANA business case and the cloud has enabled hundreds, if not thousands, of customers to realize the value of HANA without the lengthy and expensive procurement process of acquiring HANA certified compute nodes. SAP has continually introduced new tools and new …

Announcements at SAPPHIRE NOW Many of you have probably heard the announcement made at SAPPHIRENOW 2017. Microsoft released a bunch of new offerings and announced quite a few exciting new products and features along our SAP & Microsoft story. If you want to get a quick summary, check out the …

The growth in cloud adoption is nothing short of explosive. In fact, according to IDC, at least 50% of net-new IT spending will be cloud-based, shrinking on-premise enterprise applications by 20%. However, even though the cloud is emerging as the mainstream choice for many businesses, it doesn’t mean that the …

Maybe you already know something about the KPI catalog, SAP’s cloud service offering. If so, you are probably aware the KPI catalog contains comprehensive definitions, descriptions, and technical documentation of KPIs. After all, the catalog already offers useful metrics and key figures that are available to you in multiple SAP …

Excerpt from the book Operating SAP in the Cloud: Landscapes and Infrastructures by @andr.bgelsack2, @galina.koleva, @loina.prifti2, @ronny.zimmermann, and @helmut.krcmar. Used with permission of SAP PRESS. All rights reserved.   This blog introduces Amazon Web Services (AWS) for SAP. It gives an overview of AWS, some advantages of running SAP on …

Unless you have been living under a rock last two years, you have certainly heard about these buzz words around you. I am developing since a decade and I was never impatient to write a simple Hello World or Database select before. All it takes was just installing some software …

This week was a big week for SAP. This week the SAP Converged Cloud went live! What do you mean, you have never heard of the SAP Converged Cloud?!!? Well, maybe you can be forgiven, since the Converged Cloud is SAP’s private cloud strategy and is currently only expected for …

SAP has released the newly designed SAP Help Portal to customers. The SAP Help Portal site has been an important resource for customers for many years, and has amassed a huge wealth of information over time. The site has undergone a complete redesign aimed at making the it easier to navigate and …

The SAP Help Portal (http://help.sap.com) is the main customer-facing hub for customers to access user assistance content for using SAP product. The site has been an important resource for customers for many years, and it contains a huge wealth of information. SAP’s User Assistance team has completely redesigned the site, and …

With the increasing acceptance of cloud hosting, you can hear success stories of cloud hosting benefits. However, migrating data and applications to the cloud is a tedious job. Many organizations are still reluctant to migrate their data and applications to cloud because of the challenges they might face during migration. …

In the previous blog entry, we looked into building a HEAT template for HANA Instances. In this part of the series SAP-as-a-Service with OpenStack Cloud, we will build-up on the previous HEAT template to create a S/4HANA Instance (S/4HANA 1511 SR1) The S/4HANA HEAT Template should automate the following: Use …

In the previous blog entry, we looked into building a HEAT template for SAP instances. In part 2 of the series SAP-as-a-Server with OpenStack Cloud, we will build-up on the previous HEAT template to create a HANA instance. Running HANA on top of KVM is not certified for running production. …

SAP Provides Cloud Appliance Library http://cal.sap.com. But here are the issues with it. Fixed SID. Cannot be used in Production. Most of the landscapes have to register their SIDs in the Solution manager to identify the machine. If it’s a SAP Service Provider, having the same SID for all customers …

This is part of blogs series for creating your own SAP lab on Amazon Web Services cloud.   In this blog I am attempting to help create a AWS EC2 instance ONLY. Installation of SAP HANA and ABAP will be covered in other blogs.   Short Introduction to AWS Amazon …

The buzz: “I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.” -Elizabeth Taylor. By 2019, cloud software delivery will grow to 112 Billion dollars –five times faster than traditional software– leveling the IT playing field. With uneasiness, skepticism and “technical acrophobia” about the cloud mostly a thing of the past, …

Hello, Back in 2006 when I worked for SAP in field services specialized group executing big technical upgrades and Unicode migrations projects for large sized customers where there was one big constant factor, before starting any migration project as starting early to think about the hardware requirements before you think …

1. Introduction of Cloud computing             Cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of your computer’s hard drive. Cloud computing is the                phrase used to describe different scenarios in which computing resource is delivered as a service over a network connection (usually, this is …

SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) is at the core of SAP’s technology strategy – that much was plain to see for everyone again at SAPPHIRE NOW a few days ago. And while that is little news for the techies around given HCP was left, right and center in all SAP …

A few years ago in Part 1 and Part 2 of It’s Good to Have Your Head in the Cloud(s), I explored my personal usage of the cloud in order to better understand the role and strategy of “the cloud” in business.  At that time, I focused primarily on packaged …

The classic, Don Quixote is reckoned to be the first modern novel, and was written by Miguel de Cervantes, a Madrid resident. He had the misfortune to die in the same year as Shakespeare, so in anniversary years such as this 400th he has to share with the better known …

Have you ever been looking for more and better insights what SAP is doing to ensure Security for the SAP business and the SAP Cloud offerings? Are you interested to learn and understand how serious SAP deal with common and new treads of Cybersecurity as a company – Corporate Security …

Follow me along on a journey through time. Pre-Cloud Age When discussing the next thing it is always important to have a deep reflection of how it used to be. Back in 2007 I was  working for 7 years at SAP and there was one constant factor, before starting any …

本ドキュメントでは、SAP on AWSに関する情報を整理します。   更新履歴 2016年5月1日：新規作成 2016年5月12日：m4.10xlargeインスタンスのSAPベンチマーク記録の更新(Cert16014)によるSAPSテーブルの修正 2016年5月17日：新しいx1.32xlargeインスタンスのSAPベンチマーク取得(Cert16021)によるSAPSテーブルの修正 2016年9月14日：Oracle Databaseサポートと新しいx1.16xlargeインスタンスのSAP認定に伴うSAPSテーブル修正 2016年12月30日：新しいr4.16xlargeインスタンスのSAPベンチマーク取得(Cert16069)、m4.16xlargeのSAPベンチマーク取得(Cert16068)に伴うSAPSテーブル修正 関連するSAPノート はじめに、SAP on AWSに関する最新情報や詳細は以下のSAPノートを参照してください。 SAP Note 1380654 – SAP support in public cloud environments SAP Note 1656099 – SAP Applications on AWS: Supported DB/OS and AWS EC2 products SAP Note 1964437 – SAP HANA on AWS: Supported AWS EC2 …

                      The main difficulty in assessing cloud risks is the lack of visibility about the implemented security controls by the cloud provider. Oftentimes customers can see security certification information, but these are not sufficient to have a precise cloud risk …

Planning to move to business computing to the cloud? There are a number of different reasons why you might want to do this. For one, it’s actually more secure than you might think. For another, you have the resources of an entire team of dedicated cloud service professionals at your …

Whenever I write about Cloud computing I get a bit nostalgic about the pioneers that came before this perfect marketing term was created. For some of us, it’s not hard to remember a time when there was no open source software or hardware and compatibility was a question that had …