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

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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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