SAP Migration to Azure Cloud
Gavin Martin & Logan Gouws
Opening up a world of opportunity
What was the business problem
Rationale for choosing the Azure platform
Technical overview of the set up
Learnings
Flexibility
…do it
Who are we?
Business ProblemSAP environment behind in Service Pack and Enhancement packs
Anticipated some issues during the upgrade process
Tight window for User Acceptance testing
Mitigate RISK of system downtime
Why Azure?
Approach by Syd
Industry hype about Cloud
Relationship with Microsoft
ExpectationsFlexibility
Simplicity and speed of deployment
Performance
COST Effective
The technical bit
Where to start?
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/
Pricing Calculator (The scary bit)
Pricing Calculator continued
Results…..
Pricing Calculator (Not so scary)
Azure Sizing
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn197896.aspx
1. Create network.
2. Create the database vms
3. Restore the databases
4. Create the App server
5. Run sapinst homogenous copy
6. Run through standard post step
7. DONE!
Set Up
Parking
Datacentre
Is this what modern datacentres look like?
This what we they actually look like
This is a lot of computing power
Meaning Microsoft can do things like this
and this
Local currencies
Global datacenters
Global CDN
Global support
24 x 7 x 365 support Over 1 billion customers, 20 million businesses 76 markets worldwide 280 years of combined industry experience in infrastructure, security, product dev, and global ops
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Local account teams
Mind set
Different business model
Need to operate differently
Why you should be on Azure!
Use as much as little at the ‘turn of
a handle’
Principals of lean
Key takeaways
Flexibility
Cost
Simplicity
Standard processes
Speed to market
Opening up a world of opportunity
Q&A
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