Overview of Cloud computing and SAP LVMOverview of Cloud computing and SAP LVM

Sitaram Kotnis Palaparthi SAP Product Delivery Lead, IBM

Agenda

Challenges and Demands Sample illustration Cloud Computing

What is cloud computing? IBM SmartCloud and Demo Key elements of Cloud Cloud Service models. Cloud deployment models Issues & Concerns IBM Smartcloud Solution

SAP Landscape Virtualization Management features overview

Common challenges with traditional IT Common challenges with traditional IT include:include:

Very low utilization of test servers—usually below industry average.

Server are sized best for peak loads (which is occasional)

Having to dedicate a substantial number of servers within a typical IT environment to test

Extensive, arduous process to procure servers and software for development and test.

& EOL process is as difficult too!

Business wants -Business wants - On-demand typically by the

minute or the hour; Elastic -- Business can have as

much or as little of a service as they want at any given time;

Free of management overhead.

Cloud Computing bridges the gap.

Challenges and Demands

Sample illustration: Need a Computer storage space for personal data.

1 TB Drive cost $100. Drive is not reliable. Drive is not portable. Can’t

connect to Smartphone, Can’t carry it to office.Now you have a solution i.e. Storage As A

ServiceReliableAccessible from anywhereHeadroom for future growth.

and your data is in CLOUD

Now you have a solution i.e. Storage As A ServiceReliableAccessible from anywhereHeadroom for future growth.

and your data is in CLOUD

Examples: IBM SmartCloud, Salesforce.com, Google, Amazon webservices, EMC Atmos, rackspace.com

What Cloud Computing is not?

Any service available on internet. Virtualized computers. Grid computing.

IBM Smartcloud Solution

IBM’s enterprise-class public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)—delivers secure and scalable hosted IT infrastructure with on-demand access to virtual server and storage resources.

Services offered

DEMO

Key elements of Cloud

Virtualized infrastructure-Workload awareness & optimization

Low latency High-bandwidth network Scalable storage- Categorized under

different protocols & access paths

Individual cloud services Lifecycle Management Standardization & Automation

Infrastructure

Applications

Cloud Service models

***BPAAS-An service model that IBM defined.

Super users,Business End Users

Application Developers,Testers, Configurator

IT Service Providers- OS,DB,Application Admins

Data Center Experts Networking, Storage etc

Cloud Deployment Models

Issues & Concerns

Privacy – Is it safe to place my Enterprise data in Public Cloud? Is Enterprise ready to share service with other company? (Multi-

tenancy) Compliance & Legal.

How to keep up with Policies and Standards? (HIPPA,SOX etc.) Abuse.

Cloud can be used for nefarious purposes by customers.

SAP Landscape Virtualization Management- MANAGEMENT OF SAP SYSTEMS THROUGH THE USE OF VIRTUALIZATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS) CLOUD TECHNOLOGY.

Important Links

http://scn.sap.com/community/it-management/virtualization http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing http://research.cloudtweaks.com/ www.ibm.com/smartcloud www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/