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Sun Systems for SAP Business Application Solutions

Upgrading SAP on new Sun technology can help you to improve user productivity, consolidate workloads, better utilize resources — resulting in dramatically reduced datacenter costs. Sun Systems for SAP Business Application Solutions provide a methodology for upgrading existing SAP Business Suite applications with eco-efficient Sun servers, storage, the Solaris OS, and industry-leading virtualization technologies.


At a Glance

  • Lower cost and complexity — improve productivity and system utilization rates through virtualization and consolidation
  • Better service levels — increase capacity, performance, and availability with the Solaris OS and eco-efficient systems
  • Reduce risk and speed deployment — Sun offers a comprehensive suite of SAP services and solutions for building optimal SAP architectures
  • Increased security — powerful hardware and software features that deliver secure solutions and minimize risk
  • Flexibility — Sun offers a choice of UltraSPARC CMT, Sun SPARC Enterprise, or x64 platforms that can help pair SAP modules with the optimal architecture for specific workloads

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Built In, No Cost Virtualization

Sun continues to work with SAP to integrate and certify Sun's Virtualization Technologies with SAP Business Applications and the SAP Netweaver Platform. Sun offers a choice of innovative technologies — like Dynamic Domains, Sun Logical Domains (LDoms), and Solaris Containers — to consolidate applications. These built-in virtualization technologies can be readily combined, and system resources allocated between virtualized environments as needed.

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SAP on SPARC

Sun SPARC Enterprise servers with CoolThreads technology and Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers feature industry-leading consolidation and virtualization capabilities to deliver 24/7 mission-critical services while reducing power, cooling, and space requirements. Sun's SPARC processor-based systems are fully scalable, offering everything from blades and rackmount servers to large-scale systems.


SAP on x64

Sun and SAP offer an enterprise-class alternative that can contribute to smart economics in your datacenter. The SAP Business Suite is now available on enterprise-class x64 solutions from Sun — on the Solaris 10 OS with AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processor-based systems.


Record SAP Performance

The combination of Sun servers and the Solaris 10 OS yields proven performance advances, setting and re-setting dozens of performance and price/performance world records on a wide range of benchmarks to date.

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Customer Stories

  • Brown Forman Corporation — Brown-Forman Doubles Utilization, Reduces IT Footprint and Costs with Sun Virtualization Solution
  • Province of Nova Scotia — Province of Nova Scotia replaced legacy systems with Sun servers, storage, and the Solaris OS to increase the capacity and availability of their SAP environment.
  • Spencer's Retail — Spencer's improves performance and supports rapid business growth with Sun SPARC Enterprise servers.
  • SAP University Competence Center (UCC) — Technical university achieves optimum system utilization with Sun hardware and virtualization technology.
  • Dow Corning — Three-Person IT UNIX Team Supports 4.4 Billion Dollar Global Corporation Using the Solaris 10 Operating System

Featured Partner: Great Northern Consulting Services

Sun Team's with Great Northern to architect and deploy your SAP server landscape using Sun's virtualization technology.

Great Northern Consulting Services creates a sustainable datacenter for your SAP landscape using Sun's cost-effective virtualization technologies — all designed to virtualize hardware, the OS, and storage to meet varying datacenter and business needs. Learn More


Speed Time to Deployment

Sun Services can help you upgrade and consolidate your SAP environment faster. Sun's SAP experts can also help lower costs in terms of reduced downtime and IT administrative bandwidth, allowing your team to stay focused on running the business.

Sun Solution Centers offer customized development and testing, using validated Sun and SAP reference designs, that enable to you test before you implement — help you to save time on development, deployment, and upgrades.

SunVIP Interop Support provides accelerated interoperability resolution. Support engineers from Sun and SAP work together to resolve your interoperability issues quickly and effectively.