Author: Friedrich Krey, Suse

Regulations such as NIS 2 increase the requirements for data protection and security. The BSI CC EAL 4+ certified Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) fulfills these requirements.

The NIS2 Directive and the Cyber Resilience Act are responses to the increasing number of cyberattacks. Here it is helpful to rely on the BSI-certified Suse Linux platform for SAP.

For S/4 HANA public cloud migrations, long-time SAP partner SUSE supports customers with much more than a best-in-class operating system platform. This can ensure an accelerated and secure cloud transition as well as robust cloud operations management.

The Suse technology blueprint consists of seven steps for high availability of S/4 Hana transformation in hybrid cloud environments.

Numerous customers usually prefer hybrid cloud operation for SAP S/4HANA deployment. This requires software support that covers a comprehensive technology stack and supports sophisticated SAP Landscape Lifecycle Management.

Many S/4 on-premises customers use public cloud services. While procuring infrastructure services for SAP environments is rather simple, implementing and operating them necessitates specialized software.

SAP’s most recent announcements indicate that its entire solution portfolio will move towards cloud computing. S/4 Hana seems predestined for hybrid cloud environments.

On-prem here, public cloud there. Just a few years ago, leveraging hybrid and multi-cloud with SAP would have been impossible. Now, it’s the new normal, and Linux can also support SAP Hana Large Instances on Microsoft Azure.

More and more SAP customers aim for a hybrid cloud or multi-cloud approach. Linux can serve as the foundation—also in combination with container technologies like Kubernetes.

A good Linux platform management results in good SAP Hana use. Only condition: a system management software which supports the automation of SAP infrastructure deployment.

The innovative collaboration of SAP, Intel, and Suse marks a new milestone regarding persistent memory using Hana and Linux in data centers.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the SAP Linux Lab, and Suse was there from the beginning. Here are some highlights of two decades of collaboration.