SAP Cloud Computing-Steve Delien

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SAP Cloud Computing Accenture Private Cloud

Solution for SAPCIO Roundtable Conference – Geneva

Tuesday 21/02/2012



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• Steve Deliën – Executive – Technology enthusiast

• Accenture Belgium – Systems Integration & Technology SAP

• Solution architect in the Expert Track career path

• Private Cloud Solution for SAP Offering lead EALA

• Part of the EMEA SAP Innovation domain

• 14 years of SAP experience: started out as ABAP developer

in SAP HCM. Evolved from custom development into data

migration, interfaces and eventually architecture

• Innovation focus:

SAP Fabric Computing

SAP Complex Event Processing

SAP HCM Add-on proof-of-concepts

• Contact details:

[email protected]

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• Challenges of today’s SAP landscapes

• How to meet the challenge?

• SAP Cloud Computing

• Private Cloud Solution for SAP

• Q&A

Agenda

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The SAP market is a mature market with a large install base of loyal

longstanding customers. Many SAP systems have started their

application life-cycle many years, sometimes decades ago and have

accumulated large amounts of data.

Large databases have received a substantial hit from Unicode migrations

which became compulsory as of SAP ERP 6.

Data volumes are growing ever more rapidly due to the expansion of

the global SAP data model.

Less than 5 years ago many SAP customers were still in the Gigabyte

range but the TB range (and beyond) is becoming the norm.

Challenge I: Large databases…

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Large databases are putting a strain on the traditional SAP infrastructure and frequently

a cause for performance problems paired with high storage costs. They impede the

smooth delivery of testing and training environments, but more importantly large

databases pose an increased risk for failure on delivering an adequate disaster

recovery.




• Wide range of application and Netweaver components: multiple functional ERPinstances, CRM, Process Integration, Portal, Business Intelligence, Business Objects,Solution Manager, …

• Mix of ABAP and Java application servers and db servers

• Exotic components on Windows, Linux• Interdependencies between components

Challenge II: Complex SAP landscapes

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Today’s SAP landscape has evolved far beyond from what was once a

monolithic integrated application with an integrated administration layer, to a

complex multi-component architecture

SAP R/3

SAP R/3 Business

Intelligence

Process

Integration

Customer

Relationship

Management

Finance

Controlling

Logistics

Human

Capital

Management

Portal

Solution

Manager

The landscape has become difficult to operate on an application, administration

and infrastructure level


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• “I cannot back-up my ERP system anymore within the agreed SLA”

• “I have over provisioned computing and storage and am only using a fraction of it. Still I pay for the

provisioned hardware and consequently DB and OS licenses”

• “I have back-ups of every single system and database, keeping them in synch is a full time job”

• “I need 3 days to restore my core system”

• “Restoring the full SAP landscape would be a nightmare”

• “We have a disaster recovery scenario but never executed it as a whole”

• “It takes a week to set up a training landscape”

• “Upgrading/patching my landscape takes two weeks admin work”

• “Simply provisioning a Unix server takes me 6 weeks”

• “I have a 5TB ERP database, do I really need 5TB storage on my testing and training environments?”

• “My SAP infrastructure and admin support budgets have sky rocketed!”

The challenges our SAP customers are facing today…

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Customers are facing the combined challenge of complex SAP landscapes

and large databases. This leads to operational problems

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• The traditional response is failing. We tended to take a mainly application

centric approach when the easy way of adding bigger boxes started to

fail. On an infrastructure level the traditional architectures reach the

limits of the scale up model

• In Accenture’s view, the challenges today’s SAP landscapes are facing can

neither be met by adopting a pure application nor a pure infrastructure-

centric approach• Customers will need to define a mixed approach while revising their current

SAP infrastructures and the way they are managed and consumed

How to meet the challenge…

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Cost Reduction

Reduce infrastructure cost

Reduce labor cost

Reduce storage costChargeback

Operational Excellence

Measured KPI

Flexibility

Speed to market

Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Cloud Strategy

Private – Public (On demand –

On Premise)

Cooperations / Alliances

The objectives of cost reduction and operational excellence drive our

customers into the hybrid cloud or the fabric. Cloud adoption is a journey that

needs to be founded on a future-proof cloud strategy

How to meet the challenge…

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Accenture Cloud Enterprise Services

• Strong offering in fabric computing combining on-premise and

on-demand services

• XAAS

• Uses BMC Cloud Life-Cycle Management

SAP on demand

• SAP Business ByDesign

• SAP BI on demand

• SAP CRM on demand

• SAP RDS on Amazon – CRM & BOBJ

• SAP Streamwork

• Success Factors – SAAS HCM Talent

SAP Private Cloud

• IBM CloudBurst

• HP CloudSystem Matrix

• FlexPod – Generic

• vBlock - Generic

• Accenture Private Cloud Solution for SAP

SAP Cloud Options

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There are multiple options for SAP cloud adoption out there. Each one is valid in

its own rights but private cloud is the most secure path into the fabric for the

enterprise

Cloud Enterprise ServicesStorefront Portal, Storefront Services, Cross Functional Services, Cloud Management Services

CoreEnterprise IT

Private Cloud Public Cloud

T h e I T R e s o u r c e P o o l

& E c o

s y s t e m

Orchestration Framework

Network

Application Services

Servers ApplicationsStorage

Infrastructure ServicesIaaS/SaaS/PaaS/BPaaS

Policy Management /Rules Engine



• Public cloud computing

Data export

Data privacy

Data security

If US cloud provider: US Patriot Act – tricky for non-US

customers

• SAP on demand is not ready for the enterprise – small and

medium businesses

• SAP acquisition Success Factors: smart approach to constraints –

still grey zone• Accenture CES not available yet for SAP in an industrialized

format

Constraints of the cloud

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The SAP cloud options out there are subject to constraints when

considered for the enterprise*

*Please refer to the appendix for additional information

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What if a SAP customer wants to adopt cloud computing but

does not want to rely on external hosting nor on the public

cloud?

The only possibility would be to adopt a private cloud.

Adopting private cloud is not easy though.

A recent global market survey among more than 1,500

customers indicated that adopting private cloud on their own

without going through a transformation program leads in

66% of the cases to an increased infrastructure cost

footprint rather than delivering the promised TCOreductions…

SAP Private Cloud 1/3

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The journey into the fabric evolves along a fabric maturity path

Maturity

level

Time Line

Exploration

• Discover

technology

• Opportunity

awareness• Business Case

Conceptuali-

zation

• Vendor selection

• Proof of Concept

• SAP Pilot

Fabric Build

• Landscape

Ramp-up• IaaS

• PaaS

• LaaS

IT Transforma-

tion Fabric

Consumer

• Organization

• Governance

• Processes

• Services

BusinessTrans-

formation Fa-bric Consumer

• Organization

• Governance

• Processes

• Services

Fabric Services

Provider

• IaaS

• PaaS

• LaaS

• SAP SaaS

• Support Services

Internalize Externalize




Moving SAP onto a private cloud is more than a matter of transforming the

infrastructure

There are four major thresholds that inhibit private cloud adoption:

• What is the best technology out there to build a private cloud? A lot of

vendors promise they can deliver and few actually can already

• IT and Business Transformation – Self-service, move away from silo

organization, evolve IT into organization of makers, convergence of SAP,computing, network and storage skills

• Private cloud requires a rapid ramp-up of skills that might not even be

present at the moment

• Migration project – certified migration of SAP applications to the new

infrastructure


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In order to circumvent the thresholds inhibiting private cloud adoption

Accenture, NetApp and Cisco have developed the Private Cloud

Solution for SAP offering.








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Private Cloud Solution for SAP is an innovative way of reducing SAP TCO

and improving service operations. We help you transform your data centerinto an elastic data center while helping you adopt analytics mobile

Accenture Private Cloud Solution for SAP – The offering

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• We focused on vendors that are recognized by Accenture for their technology leadership

• Technology leadership research was established based on an in-depth market study including

extensive interviews with relevant vendors, own experiences and customer experiences

• Technology leadership makes abstraction of:

– Market recognition: being recognized as leader by the market is as such not a valid criteria

for technology leadership. New technologies require some time before they are recognized

by the market. Therefore market recognition tends to favor older technologies.

– Sales: being number one in the market is not enough. It is an indication but not a sufficient

criteria for technology leadership.

• The fact that we define reference vendors does NOT mean one could not establish fabric

computing with other vendors

• Customers could decide to deviate from the reference vendors because of: – A preferred supplier relationship with other vendors

– Multi-vendor strategy

– Commercial reasons like discounts offered by other vendors creating a situation in which

the TCO with alternative vendors is more interesting

– Updated vendor roadmap

Accenture Private cloud market analysis

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We did extensive research to determine what the most differentiating private

cloud architecture is on the market




Accenture Private Cloud Solution for SAP – The offering

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The one stop shop for the enterprise level private SAP cloud. Accenture is the

single point of contact/contract for the installation, migration andoperation. We leverage on the best technology and make cloud adoption a

minimized risk operation.




Accenture Private Cloud Solution for SAP – The Technology

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What sets these technologies apart?

SMART STORAGE: NetApp

• Up to 50% storage footprint reduction thanks to powerful de-dup

• Up to 16TB of hot data in flash cache removing I/O bottlenecks

• De-dup aware cache

• Online snapshotting – powerful back-up restore

• SAP application awareness and automation

• Up to 5 PB per storage system, then scale out

• One architecture for all sizes! No migration when growing

NETWORK: Cisco Nexus – Fabric Interconnect

• High-speed connections

• Each virtual machine has its own virtual network card – hypervisor passthrough• Full network transparency – even VM to VM on same blade

• Switch hides up to 6 mio SAPS from the LAN – only user interaction to LAN

COMPUTE: Cisco UCS

• Decouple physical blades through service profiles from the bare metal server

• Service profiles are a pre-requisite for cloud architectures

• Highest memory density on the market up to 1.5 TB

• Dynamic landscapes based on date/time or SLAs

• Single largest SAP instance of 5 mio SAPS with 500k SAPS DB

HYPERVISOR: Vmware

• Best hypervisor on the market

• Best supported certified hypervisor for SAP

• Supports 80+ operating system distributions

• 32vCPUs and 1TB of vRAM to create virtual SAP servers of 26k+

SAPS

OPERATING SYSTEM: RedHat Enterprise Linux

• Best supported SAP certified Linux operating system

• Enterprise class OS

• Choice of 80% of the world’s stock exchanges




Accenture Private Cloud Solution for SAP – T-shirt sizes

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Off the shelve T-shirt sized offerings for ERP/BW landscapes. Fixed time fixed

price for ERP/BW. A la carte for larger landscapes in time and materials.




Accenture Private Cloud Solution for SAP – Exampleplanning

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Transform in as little as six months.




Accenture Private Cloud Solution for SAP – Methodology Assets

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Accenture and NetApp bring a significant number of methods, assets and tools

to accelerate solution delivery

Data Center

Rationalization

Methodology

Server Consolidation

Methodology

Storage Consolidation

Methodology

InfrastructureServicesFramework

Platform&Facilities

Mgt.CMDB

Platform&Facilities

Mgt.CMDB

Platform&Facilities

Mgt.CMDBCMDB

BSM

ITSM

Business Processes

Business Services

Application

Mgmt

Infrastructure Services

Application Services

Sec Mgmt Security Services

Virtualised ResourcesSharing Aggregation Seamless Replacement Emulation

Virtualised ResourcesSharing Aggregation Seamless Replacement Emulation

Infrastructure Resources

Server Storage Network Security Backup & Archive

Infrastructure Resources

Server Storage Network Security Backup & Archive

Infrastructure ServicesOS and VM

ServicesTerminal Services

DB & InfoMgmt Services

Network Services

StorageServices

Directory Services

Infrastructure ServicesOS and VM

ServicesTerminal Services

DB & InfoMgmt Services

Network Services

StorageServices

Directory Services

OperationsMgmt

InfraMgmt

Integration ServicesBroker MiddlewareWeb Services EntService BusEAI

SOA Batch

I n t e g r a t i o n

T o o l s & D a t a

M a n a g e m e n t

V i r t u a l i s a t i o n

R e s o u r c e

S e r v i c e

A u t o m a t i o n

P r o c e s s

T e c h n o l o g y

NGDC2 ReferenceArchitectureFramework

Accenture Next Generation Data Center Reference Architecture

SOI

Client/ Server

BI ERP &CRM

Web &Portal

Productivity &Collaboration

Accenture Agile IT

Framework for Cloud

Accenture Infrastructure

Delivery Methods

Business Service Management

IT ServiceManagement

Security

Network

ServiceDesk

ChangeManagement

IncidentManagement

ProblemManagement

SLAManagement

Identity& Access

Management

Infrastructure

Security

Security

Management

Data Network

Management

Network

Security

Voice

Data Center

Infrastructure Provisioning & Management

Applications

Virtualization Services

OS

Storage

IT ServiceContinuity

Server

Database

End User Computing

D e sk to p M es sa gi ng M ob il it y D ir ec to ry S er vi ce s

Mainframe

Infrastructure GovernanceInfrastructure Spend Infrastructure Sourcing

AssetManagement

AvailabilityManagement

CapacityManagement

ConfigurationManagement

Accenture IT

Infrastructure

Assessment Framework

NetApp Sizing Tools &

Reference Docs

NetApp Best Practices

Guides




• Faster provisioning - stage new SAP systems – 1 hour

• Faster refreshes – 1 day

• Zero footprint training & testing environments – 1,5 hours

• Online non-disruptive back-up – continuous if required

• Faster restore < 15 minutes

• Multi-tenancy – virtual data centers per landscape, department, company, …

Accenture Private Cloud Solution – Value Proposition

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Private Cloud Solution differentiates from competing offerings through the

operational services we deliver

• Faster project delivery – faster provisioning, parallel low cost

testing/training systems and secure data migrations

• Faster patching

• Faster upgrades

• Increased uptime

• Increased security




NetApp Joint Initiative – Solution development roadmap

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The technical solution underneath PCS for SAP comes out of the NJI

development roadmap. Other solutions are planned.








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