SAP on Azure Implementation Guide: Move your business data to the cloud

Learn how to migrate your SAP data to Azure simply and successfully.

Key Features

• Learn why Azure is suitable for business-critical systems
• Understand how to migrate your SAP infrastructure to Azure
• Use Lift & shift migration, Lift & migrate, Lift & migrate to HANA, or Lift & transform to S/4HANA

Book Description

Cloud technologies have now reached a level where even the most critical business systems can run on them. For most organisations SAP is the key business system. If SAP is unavailable for any reason then potentially your business stops. Because of this, it is understandable that you will be concerned whether such a critical system can run in the public cloud. However, the days when you truly ran your IT system on-premises have long since gone. Most organizations have been getting rid of their own data centres and increasingly moving to co-location facilities. In this context the public cloud is nothing more than an additional virtual data centre connected to your existing network.

There are typically two main reasons why you may consider migrating SAP to Azure: You need to replace the infrastructure that is currently running SAP, or you want to migrate SAP to a new database. Depending on your goal SAP offers different migration paths. You can decide either to migrate the current workload to Azure as-is, or to combine it with changing the database and execute both activities as a single step. SAP on Azure Implementation Guide covers the main migration options to lead you through migrating your SAP data to Azure simply and successfully.

What you will learn

• Successfully migrate your SAP infrastructure to Azure
• Understand the security benefits of Azure
• See how Azure can scale to meet the most demanding of business needs
• Ensure your SAP infrastructure maintains high availability
• Increase business agility through cloud capabilities
• Leverage cloud-native capabilities to enhance SAP

Who this book is for

SAP on Azure Implementation Guide is designed to benefit existing SAP architects looking to migrate their SAP infrastructure to Azure. Whether you are an architect implementing the migration or an IT decision maker evaluating the benefits of migration, this book is for you.

Table of Contents

1. Cloud Readiness
2. Architect SAP on Azure
3. Migrate SAP to Microsoft Azure
4. Transform SAP in Azure

Nick Morgan is a highly experienced IT infrastructure architect, who, for the last 18 years has focused on architecting solutions for SAP. Since 2017, Nick has worked for Microsoft as part of their Global SAP practice, helping customers with moving their SAP workloads to Azure. Nick also regularly speaks on behalf of Microsoft at SAP events in the UK.

Bartosz Jarkowski is an SAP Technical Expert with over 12 years of experience working and leading complex technical projects. He has a deep working knowledge of SAP NetWeaver, SAP HANA, and Microsoft Azure. Bartosz works as a trusted advisor at Microsoft, offering thought leadership to global companies to improve the management and resilience of their SAP landscapes.