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There is a plethora of advantages to be enjoyed if you are moving your SAP systems to the environment of cloud and the foremost one being an enhanced agility without cost escalation. Many large as well as medium sized organizations have remarkable faith in Microsoft’s Azure cloud as far as their mission critical SAP data is concerned.
Limitations of traditional IT services
Conventional IT solutions restrict growth of the enterprise because of multiple reasons. One of the most important factors to consider is the upfront financial burden of purchasing costly hardware equipment to develop in-house IT infrastructure. In fact, cloud services are being preferred over these due to improved ability of renting compute and storage resources without any significant financial expenditure.
It is not possible to achieve real-time scalability in the traditional IT environment. If your business is operating in a highly competitive environment then this can severely impact business in terms of its competitive edge. Cloud adoption offers excellent agility and helps enterprises cater to business demands without any delays.
Skepticism about security in cloud infrastructure could be an important reason why many businesses are yet to embrace cloud in spite of its benefits. In addition to this, many business owners feel that by default, SAP HANA Cloud systems are not cloud ready and the migration may jeopardize their mission critical operations.
Evolution of Azure from Microsoft
In terms of its growth, Azure has surpassed all public cloud products with nearly half of the enterprises leveraging its cloud apps for gaining amazing business agility and real-time scalability. This has placed Azure from Microsoft is a number one enterprise cloud hosting solution provider.
Azure cloud platform has capabilities of serving enterprises that need to move their critical business processes to cloud. One can be assured of elevating performance levels without any impact on security of mission critical data workloads if SAP systems are placed in Microsoft Azure cloud.
Following attributes of Azure must be taken into account while judging its suitability to support SAP systems.
Outstanding capacity of Azure makes it an ideal platform to facilitate huge volumes of Online Data Processing. Secondly, Azure provides amazing compute power to support Online Transaction Processing.
Financial constraints limit ability of an enterprise to adopt advanced hardware and software solutions in an on-site IT environment. Azure helps enterprises gain access to its most advanced and latest operating systems, hardware resources, and virtualization supplications for supporting the most recent SAP database versions.
In order to operate mission critical databases of SAP systems including SAP HANA, Azure guarantees exclusive storage to help you achieving your goals by building S4 HANA systems.
Points to ponder while moving SAP to Azure
One must pay due attention to the significance of moving mission critical data before chalking out a strategy for its cloud migration. You need to make sure that a cloud migration strategy takes into account comprehensive aspects goal, risks, and security measures for seamless migration sans any downtime.
Finalization of cloud objectives- It would be advisable to make a list of objectives and goals that need to be achieved by cloud adoptions. It is also important to know how the migration of SAP systems from on-site IT infrastructure to Azure is going to facilitate the achievement of goals.
Many times, on-site systems are not given their due importance while implementing migration process of SAP to Azure. Care must be taken to also move those on-premise systems which are going to be impacted after SAP is migrated to Azure. Operating the Azure Environment is a radically different ball-game as compared to running on-site infrastructures. Lifting and shifting of applications is not advisable in Azure environment saving costs since it only complicate things further.
Prioritizing systems for Azure adoption– You can’t just pick any system and move it to cloud because this way you run the risk of operational failure if any of the vital systems crash during the process. Ideally, one needs to move not so critical systems to cloud in the initial phase including development and testing or applications related with planning.
One gets an opportunity of creating the best practices for migration of applications to Azure from on-premise environment as you move not so critical systems to cloud. The experience gained by transferring these systems can be applied in moving mission critical applications.
Risk and security management– It would be great if you assess the risk profile of your business before actually moving to Azure. This will make you aware about improved ability of risk management in the new Azure environment.
Security measures that are being presently implemented should be also continued in the Microsoft Azure cloud environment. It is recommended to decide adoption of new security tools by assessing capabilities of existing tools in cloud environment. This also includes leveraging a third-party managed security service provider for a comprehensive and effective management of security in Azure infrastructure.
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