SAP Converged Cloud is a private managed cloud developed and marketed by

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. It is a set of

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services that offer

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based on an

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technology-based

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. It is used by SAP's organization for their own internal IT resources to create a mix of different

environments made up of

services. It offers compute, storage, and platform services that are accessible to SAP software.

History

In 2012, SAP promoted aspects of

. In October 2012, SAP announced a

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called the

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. In May 2013, a

called the S/4HANA Enterprise Cloud service was announced. SAP Converged Cloud was announced in January 2015. SAP Converged Cloud is managed under The Converged Cloud unit, an SAP business unit established in 2015 headed by Markus Riedinger as Unit manager. The Converged Cloud

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went live in May 2017, included

technology-based storage, compute network components, and shared new services made by SAP: Later, Designate (DNS as a Service) was added as well.

Converged Cloud characteristics and components

Converged infrastructure

SAP Converged Cloud follows the premise of Converged infrastructure: the integration of compute, storage, and networking components and technologies into self-provisioning pools of shared resources and supported by IT services. One of the benefits of a data center based on converged infrastructure is that manual tasks can be automated thus reducing the time and cost to carry them out.

Open standards

SAP Converged Cloud is supporting the VMware hypervisors. It supports multiple

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, etc.) SAP Converged Cloud is compatible with public cloud platforms based on OpenStack technology, such as RackSpace and Nebula.Babcock, Charles. "HP Converged Cloud plan uses hardened OpenStack," InformationWeek, April 10, 201

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SAP Converged Cloud Professional Services

SAP Converged Cloud consultants work with SAP's users to help them configure SAPs products. These users receive advice on how they can implement cloud in a consistent manner and how to get value from their cloud investment.Huston, Chad, Little, Gard, and Segal, Rebecca. (2013). "IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2013 Vendor Analysis,"

Services

SAP Cloud Marketing – Delivers information on the possible uses for cloud services and identifies opportunities to begin implementing cloud.

Cloud products

* Compute is the service that can deliver a virtual private server, virtual server on demand. New virtual servers, or compute instances, can be brought online and can be customized to meet a variety of computing needs. It is built on OpenStack's open-source operating environment. * Object Storage * Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a webservice that delivers data from the Object Storage to users all around the world. Using a network of servers from

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, SAP's CDN routes content to local servers nearer to the customers. * Block Storage enables customers to store data from Compute instances. Block Storage is used in applications requiring frequent read/write access such as web applications. * Load Balancers are a managed load balancing service that allow for the automatic distribution of incoming traffic across compute resources."F5 Networks * DNS * Monitoring is a complementary dashboard that delivers fundamental compute and block storage metrics, providing visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. *

Platform as a Service Platform as a service (PaaS) or application platform as a service (aPaaS) or platform-based service is a cloud computing service model where users provision, instantiate, run and manage a modular bundle of a computing platform and applications, w ...

(PaaS) and

Software as a Service Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike o ...

(SaaS) Special cloud-based web services (like Applications, Databases, Multimedia, etc.).

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