Why NetApp solutions for SAP?

Your business + SAP + NetApp = pure gold

We are intensely focused on giving you a consistent experience no matter the point in your SAP journey, where you want to go, how you want to manage your environments, or which partners you work with. Build your landscape on-premises, in the cloud, or both. Use a managed service or a white glove consultancy. No matter what, the capabilities, protection mechanisms, and operational simplicity are all the same.

For more than two decades we’ve been working in an ever-deepening partnership with SAP to help you leverage our technology to deliver projects faster, more efficiently, and with less risk.

Bring applications to market faster, up to 40% faster

Speed things up

Reduce cost by shrinking data footprint as much as 85%

Start saving

Minimize risk by reducing recovery time: 1 minute snapshot restoration

Increase safety

Our organization needs to...

Run SAP in the cloud
Transform with HANA
Optimize ECC landscapes

Cloud-ready SAP, on your terms

The strategic advantages of running mission critical applications in public clouds or on managed services continue to expand. Wherever you are on your SAP journey, we’ll help you build your data fabric that lets you take advantage of the cloud when and how you choose. And when you’re ready, we’ll get you there in record time; we’re talkin’ the complete migration of 20 SAP systems in the time it normally takes to receive SAP hardware kind-of-record time. Read the Hansa-Flex case study.

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Simplify your SAP HANA operations

If you are going to conduct open heart surgery on your organization’s IT systems you want a team comprised of the best experts the world has to offer with the very best tools ever created. When it comes to data management, NetApp is that expert you want on your project team. We have the best in class tools to simplify the management and enhance the protection of your SAP HANA data.

NetApp delivers on-the-fly, non-disruptive maintenance and zero-touch automatic failover in case of disaster leading to 24/7 availability and zero data loss. Read the myBrand case study.

HANA lifecycle management HANA backup & recovery HANA disaster recovery

Accelerate your current SAP environments

Even if migrating to SAP HANA isn’t in your near-term plans, it’s important to constantly optimize your SAP environments and the infrastructures on which they are built. NetApp solutions can increase the response of your applications by up to 40% while reducing rack space and power needs by 90%. Keep your projects moving forward quickly while ensuring they are fully protected to handle any bumps you hit along the way. Read the itelligence Poland case study.

Optimizing SAP workloads with NetApp 10 Reasons your SAP applications belong on NetApp

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FlexPod has transformed our performance and efficiency, so we can focus on applications and end-user services.

Liam Cole, IT Commercial Operations Team Leader, TasNetworks

We had IBM Db2 and SAP HANA—two completely different database systems. While executing the migration, we had to transform, reorganize, and compress the data, without being able to predict how much memory the database would ultimately occupy. Azure NetApp Files gave us a great deal of flexibility.

Markus Krenn, Arvato Systems, Hansa-Flex AG

FlexPod is like a Lego kit. The deployment period is short. Whether at customer sites or in our data centers, from an operations point of view everything is always the same with FlexPod.

Christian Grützner, Architect Storage & Backup, all for one Group

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The NetApp portfolio for SAP

Deploy SAP securely and efficiently where you want it with consistent experience no matter where you go. We have solutions for all of your SAP needs. On-premises, in the cloud, and everything to connect them in perfect harmony.

Flash storage

Accelerate development, testing, and training with NetApp® AFF A-Series all-flash arrays.

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Converged infrastructure

Built on groundbreaking technology from NetApp and Cisco, FlexPod powers enterprise applications.

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Microsoft Azure

Learn from NetApp and Microsoft how Azure NetApp Files, an enterprise-grade Azure storage solution, makes it faster and easier to get your SAP landscape to the cloud.

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Google Cloud

NetApp improves business outcomes for SAP HANA workloads on Google Cloud with Cloud Volumes Service.

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IBM Cloud

NetApp and IBM Cloud offer direct access to ultra-high-performance storage that is ideal for large, complex workloads like SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC.

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Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Our software-defined storage offering that delivers advanced data management for file and block workloads and shared files across all of the leading clouds including Azure, Google Cloud and AWS.

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Data protection

NetApp^® SnapCenter^® simplifies backup, restore, and clone management across disparate applications and infrastructures.

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Storage health

NetApp^® Active IQ^® Digital Advisor uses artificial intelligence to provide insights, guidance, and actions

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Cloud optimization

Control the performance and resource usage of your SAP Landscapes with Cloud Insights.

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Regulatory requirements

NetApp^® Cloud Compliance helps you meet ongoing data governance requirements, such as the GDPR, CCPA, and more.

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Trusted by the leading Systems Integrators

We enable Systems Integrators to change the delivery experience. We help you bring all the right expertise, technical capabilities and processes and best practices together to deliver the best projects, faster and with less risk, so you can bill higher-value consultancy dollars faster.

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Expertise and services

Find the expertise and services you need to deliver SAP projects faster with fewer resources and less delivery risk

SAP solution specialists

You have questions. Our SAP solution specialists have answers – right now! Looking for sales? This isn’t them, scroll down the page a little further.

NetApp Professional Services

NetApp^®Professional Services can help you evolve your IT environment with cost-effective, high-performance solutions that will optimize the value of SAP across your hybrid cloud.

NetApp professional services

Partner Connect

Our channel and consulting partners are ready to solve your SAP needs. Reach out and connect today. We promise you’ll be glad you did.

Partner connect

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Webinar: The secret sauce to SAP HANA success

Join SAP HANA and cloud migration specialists to uncover the secrets to successfully migrating to SAP HANA or moving SAP workloads to the cloud

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Ready, set...cloud-ready SAP

Demise, survive, or thrive. These are your choices for the future. Transform your organization at its core, its SAP landscape, to not only survive, but thrive.

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INSIGHT 2020 SAP sessions

Missed INSIGHT 2020? No problem. We’ve got all the best content on SAP here.

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NetApp for SAP video library

NetApp+SAP and chill. Put your feet up and explore our video library including demonstrations and topical overview videos.

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Technical documentation

Browse our vast library of technical resources.

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Support

Find the support you need.

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Community
Blogs
Events

Join the discussions

Explore issues and answers around NetApp storage solutions.

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Explore our blogs

Get the inside scoop on a variety of tech-related topics.

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Find upcoming events

Browse events--live, online, and on demand--on the NetApp calendar.

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Make your move

There couldn’t be a better time than right now for your digital transformation. And the smartest move you can make is to join forces with NetApp today.

Contact us

No matter what solutions, products, or services you’re interested in, we’d love to talk.

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NetApp Keystone

NetApp Keystone provides flexible cloud consumption models whether you build or buy, on-premises or in the public cloud.

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