By Freya Purnell
As more enterprises are looking to move to the cloud, SAP is working with cloud service providers to create a partner cloud powered by SAP HANA.
These collaborations aim to meet the needs of customers with heterogeneous application environments and mixed application infrastructure landscapes.
SAP already offers companies the option to deploy their SAP solutions via the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service.
SAP now has agreements with 12 providers to offer SAP-validated, cloud-based infrastructure and application services globally, which includes: CenturyLink Technology Solutions, China Datacom, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Swisscom, Telstra, T-Systems, Verizon, Virtustream and VMware vCloud Hybrid Service.
More providers are expected to also offer these services, which are designed to improve quality of service and lower total cost of ownership, in the future.
The services incorporate a common reference architecture, service-level agreements and data privacy standards.
“SAP really understands the importance of its ecosystem to its success,” said Darren Bibby, program vice president, channels and alliances research, IDC. “For example, it has been very effective at extending its reach with VARs and systems integrators for more traditional implementations. Now that the world is moving to cloud and hosted consumption models, SAP has the opportunity to transfer that same ecosystem prowess to outsourcing providers for the ultimate benefit of end users.”
