By: Michael Tabron

April 14, 2022 7:41 pm

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How to migrate to SAP applications in the cloud

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’[…]

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By: Michael Tabron

October 3, 2018 9:08 am

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Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA Part 3: On-Premise? Cloud? Or Both?

Our new white paper “Migration to SAP S/4HANA – Master the Way into the Future with SUSE.” addresses the decision made by SAP to run its in-memory database exclusively on the Linux operating system as of 2025. But you have some flexibility in deciding where to deploy your systems. In my first two […]

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By: Michael Tabron

September 25, 2018 7:17 pm

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Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA Part 2: The Future Belongs to Linux

In Part 1 of this blog series, I introduced our new white paper “Migration to SAP S/4HANA – Master the Way into the Future with SUSE.” It strongly points out that the planning that is necessary for the migration to SAP HANA (and therefore to Linux) as well as to SAP S/4HANA should […]

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By: Michael Tabron

September 19, 2018 6:15 pm

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Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA Part 1: SAP HANA and Linux Herald a New Era

It’s the dawn of a new era: SAP has announced that maintenance for its standard ERP systems (which typically run on Windows and UNIX) and for SAP Business Suite will end in 2025. And what’s arguably more important is that also the support for relational databases, such as Oracle, DB2, and MS SQL […]

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By: Michael Tabron

November 27, 2017 1:53 pm

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No more "hurry up and wait" with SAP HANA deployments in the Public Cloud

Recently I was returning from an international business trip, and got a pleasant surprise when I got off of the plane at New York's JFK airport. There was an airline agent waiting to give me an "Express Connection" pass. Now if you've never been to JFK, let me tell you it is one big, […]

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