SAP and Network Appliance (NetApp) have partnered to provide SAP customers with solutions that address the unique issues and challenges of upgrading your SAP systems environment. NetApp solutions help you accelerate SAP upgrades and deployments while reducing your TCO for SAP storage infrastructure by up to 50%, compared to alternate solutions in the market.

SAP Consulting and NetApp work together to align your SAP storage, data infrastructure, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery solutions and strategies – enabling you to:

• Accelerate SAP upgrades and development – Instantly available autonomous system copies accelerate the development and upgrade cycle and require no additional storage space at the time of creation.
• Reduce risk – Autonomous, no-overhead SAP system copies allow you to test more variations in less time and find and fix errors faster and with less impact on the production system.
• Empower innovation – Fast, cheap autonomous system copies enable more training, more reporting, more testing, and more innovation, which means faster time-to-market at a lower cost.

In addition, NetApp storage and data management solutions drive:

• Better SAP data administration and capacity planning
• Easier and less time-consuming data protection and disaster recovery
• Reduced TCO for systems software, hardware, and maintenance, due to fewer SAP instances

Accelerate SAP Upgrades and Deployments

Learn how to accelerate SAP upgrades, speed development and test cycles, and provide greater data access to more people for development, training, reporting, and more, while optimizing storage investments:

• "Want to Transform SAP Data Operations?" (PDF, 4 MB) – Consider how NetApp storage solutions let you accelerate SAP upgrades and development while reducing risk and empowering innovation.
• "SAP System Copy with NetApp Storage" (PDF, 397 KB) – Discover best practices for deploying the NetApp solution for SAP system cloning, which provides an automated process to create a SAP system copy on demand, in a few minutes, and without any impact on the source production system.
• "CONSOL Energy Reduces SAP Storage and Infrastructure Costs with NetApp FC SAN Solution" (PDF, 175 KB) – Read how CONSOL Energy decreased time and increased accuracy of its SAP upgrade – with significant cost savings of up to 50%.
• "Need a Reason to Use NetApp Storage for Your SAP Solutions? How About 10?" (PDF, 94 KB) – Consider how NetApp storage solutions let you leverage information as a competitive advantage, making data available any time, any place, so you can increase productivity and save valuable time and money.
• "SAP System Landscape Consolidation and Harmonization Services with Network Appliance" (PDF, 269 KB) – See how SAP is teaming with NetApp, a world leader in unified storage solutions, to achieve successful consolidation of your SAP software in a given landscape.