Business Challenges and Objectives

• Due to the massive existing footprint in SAP HANA, the client wanted to reduce its SAP HANA storage fee
• They also wanted to ensure a high availability and a reliable platform
• The client also required redundancy for business continuity measures and the new platform to perform equal or better than their existing BI Landscape

The Solution

• The solution included Azure Virtual Machines and ARM Templates to build the initial landscape within Azure.
• The team deployed a comprehensive offline and online data migration approaches and techniques to minimize business interruption
• The team also ensured a 100% successful migration
• Business continuity was achieved by a thoughtful plan centered around client’s critical business applications
• Microsoft’s Cluster and SLES Pacemaker, SQL Always-on, HANA Replication, Azure Load Balancer and other tools were leveraged in the solution
• The team created redundancies and failover systems through Availability Zones, Geo-Redundant Failover and Azure Site Recovery
• The team designed and deployed a robust security model. These steps include Azure AD Integration, Single Sign-On, encryption of data and backups, Azure NSG, Vulnerability scans and penetration tests

Key Project Benefits

Our client realized a successful migration with better performance at a lower over cost as the data storage costs were significantly reduced from SAP HANA. The system performance has shown to be superior under the new design. Some other benefits:

• Easy to build High Availability & Disaster Recovery solutions
• Implementation costs were minimally related to the size of this large environment
• Reduced infrastructure overhead
• Low-cost disaster recovery services