Suse underpins HCP strategy with OpenStack Cloud 7

While part of the SAP–Customers holds back when it comes to HCP, many are reaching for Company the possibilities that the new development and integration platform already offers today.

Already over 4000 Customers and around 500 partners are according to SAP (am DSAG-Annual Congress); the growth rates are around 300 percent every quarter!

So there are Customers, which each month presents an idea in the HCP as a digital App want to implement.
Or: There are SAPIn the future, these partners will also provide their add-on solutions for S/4 Hana and develop these on the basis of HCP, such as a cockpit for manufacturing companies or an add-on for efficient SAP-Document Management.

According to a SAP-main objective: to provide a platform with which (web-)Applications and solutions developed, along with provisioning and delivery - easily, cost-effectively and quickly.

HCP enables the integration of Applications and data, for example, from cloud and on-premisesApps, but also from-cloud-to-cloudApps.

To address this and other issues (such as big dataApplications) via Cloud computing agile and flexible infrastructure elements or infrastructure technologies are needed to create and use such solutions.

And in this context sets SAP strongly on Open Source - on Linux, Cloud Foundry, Hadoop and OpenStack. Open Source has long been a common thread running through SAP's technology infrastructure strategy.

Focus OpenStack

Suse now provides some innovation with OpenStack Cloud in version 7, which pushes what has been achieved further forward.

It is based on the OpenStack-Release Newton with full support for Docker based on Kubernetes as the framework for container orchestration.

This gives users access to container-as-a-service (CaaS) functionality. This enables them to run innovative cloud-native workloads andApplications develop and incorporate DevOps processes and environments.

Furthermore are Company able to do so, Software-upgrades without downtime and without service interruptions. Future upgrades to new OpenStack-versions no longer affect ongoing operations.

Suse OpenStack 7 also includes additional High availability-features. For example, high-availability protection for virtual machines and workloads, which High availability for control planes and compute nodes.

Customers are supported, also "mission-critical"-Applications on the basis of the Cloud computing to use. The new version also comes with an integration of OpenStack Manila and CephFS, delivered via Suse Enterprise Storage.

This means that a unified Storage-environment that enables customers to run workloads for their block, object, and fileStorage-systems in a single cluster. The goal here is to minimize investment and operating costs.

And last, but no least offers Suse OpenStack Cloud 7 provides improved scalability. It forces deployment across multiple Data centers sustainable over the long term.

Company can also use the IaaS solution now presented by Suse Manage multiple private clouds from one consistent user interface.

With a OpenStack-solution like the one from Suse in conjunction with Cloud Foundry and Linux as the preferred operating system at SAP-environments in the cloud as well as on premise are Company with the use of Software-defined Data centers advantageously equipped for the implementation of changed, optimized business strategies.

Necessities, namely reacting quickly to new market or industry requirements, can thus ultimately be better put into practice. SAP HCP clearly stands for this, for example through OpenStack is underpinned.