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Art of the Possible

The ‘Art of the Possible’ is all about the real business benefits your organization can realize by implementing proven business critical architecture and operations and extending that through enhanced disaster recovery, automation and end-to-end unified monitoring and reporting.

For most customers, SAP is their key Business Critical Application and generalized design approaches fail to take this into account. The ‘Art of the Possible’ is grounded in best-practices and is customized to your unique business requirements and operational realities. This is not a one-size fits all approach but is a purpose built, scalable architectural design and deployment methodology that delivers real world success and real-world business benefits.



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Hybrid Cloud Use Cases

VMwareCloud on AWS for SAP Workloads

The advantages of moving to the cloud has resulted in a significant migration of workloads.

Expert Knowledge

Whitepapers

VMware Cloud™ on AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) An Analysis for SAP Landscapes

The real TCO of SAP Workloads on VMware Cloud™ on AWS

SAP-on-VMware Best Practices

Guidelines and best practices for virtualizing SAP applications on VMware vSphere.

Virtualizing your SAP Landscape

Assess, Create, and Adopt a Virtualization and Cloud Strategy

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PLATFORM MODERNIZATION FOR SAP STORIES

GLOBAL DISPENSING SYSTEMS MANUFACTURER RAPID MIGRATION OF SAP ONTO VMWARE BASED X86 SOLUTION

CHALLENGES

  • Increase reliability, performance and scalability
  • Reduce overall operating costs
  • Implement a simplified DR solution and centralized monitoring solution from Hardware to Application stack
  • Increase operational efficiencies by standardizing and reducing patch time

SOLUTION

  • EMC VMAX
  • SAP Landscape Re-design
  • Virtualization of entire SAP Landscape
  • OS/DB upgrade and standardization

RESULTS

  • Reduced downtime from multiple days per year to less than .001%
  • Increased performance by 20%
  • Reduced provisioning time from 5 weeks to 2
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PLATFORM MODERNIZATION FOR SAP STORIES

INTERNATIONAL RAILROAD COMPANY

SAP PLATFORM MIGRATION FROM PHYSICAL TO VIRTUALIZED LANDSCAPE

CHALLENGES

  • Increase reliability
  • Reduce TCO
  • Update processes and procedures
  • Stabilize platform
  • Upgrade Hardware

SOLUTION

  • Full Assess, Design, Build, Migrate and Optimize for a VMWare virtualized SAP deployment
  • Redesign and Deploy of SAP Landscape with upgrades to OS and DB

RESULTS

  • Increased flexibility to support numerous application development and upgrade activities
  • Completed error-free migration of production environment (seamless cutover) within identified time frame (36 hours)
  • Stayed within desired budget
  • Prepared for a more agile approach to functional upgrades
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PLATFORM MODERNIZATION FOR SAP STORIES

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SERVICES

INCREASING PERFORMANCE WITH COMPLETE PLATFORM TRANSFORMATION

CHALLENGES

  • Reduce costs of database
  • Introduce standards and standardize solution
  • Stabilize platform
  • Increase security

SOLUTION

  • Full assessment of entire SAP Landscape including backup, HA/DR, Security, and Networking
  • SAP OS/DB Migration
  • Disaster Recovery design and implementation (EMC Recovery Point and vRealize Site Recovery Manager)
  • VCE vBlock 700

RESULTS

  • Fully virtualized modern SAP implementation running on Microsoft Windows and SQL
  • Successful DR test
  • Enhanced Operations capability (visibility into solution at a dashboard level)
  • Reduced provisioning time from weeks to days

Transform & Virtualize

Case Studies

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Global Dispensing System Manufacturer

Increasing Performance with Complete Platform Transformation

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International Railroad Company

SAP Platform Migration from Physical to Virtualized Landscape

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International Airport Services

Rapid Migration of SAP onto VMware Based x86 Solution