Increasing numbers of organizations are turning to the cloud to support their SAP applications. The cloud appeals to them for several reasons — it has built-in fault tolerance; it scales easily with demand; and it reduces capital expenditures by offloading the responsibility for hardware support onto the cloud provider. However, moving to the cloud isn’t […]

High availability (HA) for SAP systems is essential to maintaining business operations but many system administrators and even system integrators find it complex to implement. The last thing an organization wants is to have a mission-critical SAP S/4HANA or NetWeaver system fail when or shortly after it’s launched. However, this is exactly what has happened […]

Business leaders have been leveraging business data for continued growth and competitiveness for decades. At first, the focus was on understanding markets and competitors to make major strategic decisions about a company’s future direction. However, as technology made it possible to collect more and broader types of data, line of business staff could use it […]

Attention all SAP Basis Administrators and IT infrastructure engineers who are responsible for implementing and managing SAP infrastructures. Are you concerned about the time and effort to move your current SAP landscape to SAP S/4HANA in the cloud? Are you interested in ways to work more efficiently and spend less time on routine maintenance? Is […]

As businesses adapt to the current economic conditions, it’s increasingly important that IT organizations minimize downtime of mission-critical SAP systems. Unplanned outages and manual failover processes are disruptive, labor-intensive, and time-consuming. Every minute that supply chain, finance, or BPM operations are not available results in lost productivity for lines of business and more pressure on […]

  The global pandemic and resulting government shelter-in-place or quarantine measures to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus have shifted the priorities of IT organizations away from non-critical maintenance and upgrades. Unfortunately, the planned end of General Support date for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 Service Pack 4 happens to be in the […]

Maintaining a competitive advantage often depends on how quickly you can deliver new services. SAP applications are designed to help your business analyze data to anticipate new requirements, and rapidly deliver new products and services. This gives you the ability to keep your existing customers happy while attracting new business. The insights from this data […]

SUSE has started an “SAP HANA User Group” on LinkedIn as a collaboration community for users of SAP HANA and products in the SAP S/4HANA family that are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. The goal is to provide a forum for sharing technical information, experiences and news about these products across […]

To win a relay race, you not only need top performing runners but also teammates who work well together. No matter how fast the runners are for their respective legs in the race, working together for well-executed hand-offs is critical to the win. Similarly, you need a strong team that works together seamlessly for your […]

This is a guest blog reposted with the permission of the author Dennis Padia, SAP Technical Consultant & Architect at Larsen and Toubro Infotech.       Big thanks to Bernd Schubert  from SUSE for proof-reading the blog. Part 1: HANA Scale-Up HA with System Replication & Automated Failover using SUSE HAE on SLES 12 SP 3 – […]

If you’re planning your transition to SAP HANA, you probably have many questions like: What is SAP’s strategy and roadmap for SAP HANA 2.0? What are my options for getting my data center ready? Why should I consider putting my SAP workloads in the cloud, and how can I get there? With SAP’s focus on […]

This is a guest blog reposted with the permission of the author Dennis Padia, SAP Technical Consultant & Architect at Larsen and Toubro Infotech.       In Part 1 of this 3 Series blog, an overview on System Replication, SUSE High Availability Extension and a reference architecture was discussed in detail. So based on […]

This is a guest blog reposted with the permission of the author Dennis Padia, SAP Technical Consultant & Architect at Larsen and Toubro Infotech.   Purpose This 3 Series blog will help you to get insight on the High Availability of SAP HANA scale-up systems with HANA System Replication and Automated failover using SUSE High […]

We at SUSE have discovered how you can be sure you have the fastest results from your SAP HANA systems. From the beginning, SUSE engineers have been hard at work with SAP HANA developers supporting their efforts to deliver real-time results for ERP and BPM applications. We’ve worked with them on tuning and performance optimization […]

For the nearly three years that I’ve been at SUSE, I’ve had the privilege of participating in five different IBM Systems Technical University events in Europe and the US. It’s always been a great opportunity not only to highlight the latest SUSE innovations available for the IBM Power platform but also to talk to IBMers, […]