Virtualizing SAP Solutions
- Large SAP ERP enterprises
- Small/mid-size SAP ERP companies
- SAP upgrades or new deployments
- Lower total cost of ownership and improve agility
- Reduce infrastructure costs and increase IT efficiency
- Maximize performance and reduce risk
Improved Agility
Reduced Costs
Maximized Performance
Solution Description
Challenge
Within many application environments, IT organizations are struggling to successfully address the challenges associated with increasing workloads, data, cost, and managing complexity while being hindered by inflexible infrastructures and siloed environments. Many organizations are turning to virtualization for more efficient, agile, and flexible IT operations to accelerate the time between technology purchase decisions and the ability to effectively exploit new capabilities.
Solution Overview
Our customers tell us that reducing infrastructure costs, meeting service levels, increasing operational efficiency, and maximizing performance while reducing risk are of critical importance to ensure business agility and flexibility. With EMC Virtualizing SAP Solutions, organizations can evaluate how to move to virtualization confidently and improve daily operational efficiency—all while ensuring the highest levels of availability.
Related Offerings
Products
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Data Domain
Leverage deduplication storage systems for next-generation backup, recovery, and archiving.
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NetWorker Backup and Recovery
Safeguard business-critical applications across the data center with high-performance backup and recovery software.
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RecoverPoint
Get continuous data protection with multiple recovery points to restore applications instantly to a specific point in time.
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Symmetrix VMAX 20K
Gain higher levels of performance, scale, automation, and availability for hybrid cloud environments.
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VNX Family
Get affordable, high-performance unified storage with innovative storage software to realize efficient solutions that are optimized for virtual applications.
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VPLEX
Deploy next-generation architecture to enable simultaneous information access within, between, and across data centers.
Services
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Application Services
Maximize return on investment for critical business applications and processes.
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Application Virtualization
Increase IT utilization and efficiency and manage upgrades and backups more easily through application virtualization.
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SAP Archiving, Migration, and Consolidation
Manage your SAP data growth, minimize costs, and ensure compliance.
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SAP Infrastructure Services
Align your information infrastructure with your SAP application landscapes for optimal protection, performance, and availability.
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Virtual Data Center Services
Build a virtualized infrastructure with the performance, flexibility, and scalability to support your private cloud vision with EMC's expertise.
Partners
SAP
Through close collaboration, EMC and SAP solve your greatest challenges and help you to reduce risk and infrastructure costs, meet service-level agreements (SLAs), and improve flexibility, agility, and end user experience so you can run SAP better.
VCE
The Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition is a collaborative effort between Cisco, EMC, and VMware to deliver a complete IT infrastructure that integrates best-in-class virtualization, networking, compute, storage, security, and management technologies. VCE’s Vblock infrastructure platforms simplify and accelerate SAP deployments, using a single, preconfigured platform from Cisco, EMC, and VMware’s best-in-class technologies. Boost efficiency, meet service level agreements (SLAs), automate, and simplify IT operations today.
Resources
Analyst Reports
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ESG
EMC VPLEX Metro and VMware ESX: Enabling 100 km VMotion, Distributed Storage Federation -
Frost & Sullivan
Operational and Compliance Benefits of SAP Archiving -
IDC
Storage User Demand Study, 2011—Spring Edition: Unlocking the Minds of Storage Users
White Papers
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SAP Infrastructures
Increase Operational Efficiency for SAP with EMC TimeFinder Duplicate Snaps -
Virtualizing SAP with EMC
Moving from Physical to Virtual SAP Landscape Enabled by EMC Symmetrix and VMware vCenter Converter to reduce costs and improve overall IT efficiency -
Cloud
EMC IT’s Journey to the Cloud: A Practitioner’s Guide -
Load Balancing SAP
Virtualize SAP incorporating VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) as the load-balance technology on EMC infrastructure -
FAST for SAP
Using EMC FAST Suite with SAP on EMC VNX Unified Storage—Applied Technology -
Accelerated SAP
EMC Delivers Standardized Solutions for Accelerated SAP Upgrades, Migrations and Replatforming – Applied Technology
Videos
Customer Profiles
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Columbia Sportswear
Columbia Sportswear Puts Trust in vBlock Infrastructure Platforms for Global SAP Rollout
Solution Overviews
Service Overviews
EMC Perspectives
More
News & Blogs
Blogs
Learning & Events
Learn
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Recorded Webcast
Optimizing SAP on Cloud Infrastructure: Talk to the Experts from SAP, VMware, and EMC -
Recorded Webcast
Top Five Reasons for Virtualizing SAP with EMC and VMware -
Recorded Webcast
Top Five Reasons Customers Choose EMC and VMware to Virtualize SAP
Attend
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May 14-16, 2012
SAPPHIRE NOW + ASUG Annual ConferenceOrlando, FL -
May 21-24, 2012
EMC World 2012Las Vegas, NV