Cloud Cover

Overview
SAP Business Suite OnDemand
SAP Business One OnDemand
SAP HANA OnDemand

Overview

Cloud Monitoring, Management and Optimization

Your business applications are meant to work for you, not the other way around. Spanning cloud and application monitoring, management and optimization, Virtustream's Cloud Cover solutions allow companies to reduce operating and support costs while efficiently maintaining and administering applications with improved service levels. Cloud Cover also frees businesses from everyday application-related challenges, aka the dreaded but all-to-common "fire drill."

Cloud Cover services are available on-demand, and span the entire application delivery stack, from physical infrastructure and application management to monitoring of the entire stack.

Application Management

Functional Configuration, Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning & Resource Optimization

DB & App Administration

Technical Application Management (e.g. SAP Basis), Database Administration, System Tuning, Upgrades, Patches, Issue Resolution

VM & OS Administration

Active Directory/System/Security Admin, Installation, Upgrades, Patches, Monitoring

Computing Resources

Backup and Disaster Recovery, 24 X 7 Level 2 & 3 Helpdesk, Network/Services Monitoring

Physical Infrastructure

Colocation Rack & Stack, Smart Hands, CPE Asset Tracking, Monitoring and Management

Using well-defined processes and innovative tools, we provide real-time metrics and detect, diagnose, repair and report on the service quality of complex business environments. In doing so, we allow you to redeploy IT resources to core business functions and growth strategies. Virtustream's Cloud Cover approach helps your company transition gracefully to a full-service model that focuses on generating value and increasing productivity.

SAP Business Suite OnDemand

Virtustream, a leading provider of cloud services and infrastructure solutions and the seventh SAP certified global provider of cloud services and a certified Hosting Partner, delivers a superior return on deployed capital by combining deep SAP product expertise with our secure, high performing platform, xStream™. Our cloud platform adds performance, improves flexibility, and reduces cost to your SAP systems with a complete elastic consumption based model.

SAP is Fast and Flexible in the Cloud

Create, Copy or Clone new SAP instances easily and quickly: You can reduce the time to provision and refresh systems significantly within a virtual environment, while improving flexibility to project teams and minimizing the impact on the business.
Don't delay implementation of new modules while you wait to purchase NEW hardware: Our consumption based model is fully elastic, allowing you to create, power down and delete SAP instances at any time and only pay for the amount of infrastructure used.
Improve response time: SAP's response time improves by 20% running on Virtustream's xStream™ Cloud Platform when compared to traditional physical infrastructure architectures.

SAP is Less Expensive in the Cloud

Choose a full range of support models from Infrastructure and Basis to functional support - all in the cloud.
Access a tailored support solution to meet your needs, onshore, offshore, near-shore or any combination your business requires.
Purchase a smaller set of support hours but have access to multiple SAP skills through Virtustream's consumption based support model.

SAP Business One OnDemand

With SAP Business One, ERP solutions are quick to deploy and easy to run and maintain. And, by moving into the cloud, you get even more flexibility, security and cost savings. Virtustream has been selected by SAP to serve as the core infrastructure for this new Business One on demand solution. Virtustream offers SAP Business partners an increase their recurring revenue and profit while offering better services and value to their customers.

"One-stop-shop" Hosting

End users benefit from the enhanced performance, increased flexibility and cost efficiencies of a cloud solution, including:

Data security and access
Technical support
System performance optimization
Software and system maintenance

On-demand Managed Cloud Services

Hosting infrastructure with 24x7 technical support provides a high availability cloud environment and disaster recovery without investing in, and maintaining, additional costly infrastructure.

Cost Effective Pricing

Subscription-based deployment options enable partners to offer cloud hosting with or without SAP Business One licenses.

SAP HANA OnDemand

Take full advantage of the cloud by running all your SAP systems (including SAP HANA) on the xStream™ platform. SAP HANA running in coordination with the xStream™ platform can provide significant improvements in query performance, low latency between operational and analytical data stores, reduced administrative overhead, and both better TCO and price/performance ratios as compared to traditional data warehouses.

Virtustream has been operating production systems resulting in 40% cost reductions on the infrastructure side. Flexibility, security and cost reduction, governed by state-of-the-art SLA's allow our clients to take full advantage of the efficiencies of the cloud. Since our platform data is constantly replicated between our East and West Coast data center, your information is always backed up and ready for DR.

The xStream™ platform enables you to run SAP production applications in the Cloud with simultaneous access large volumes of detailed information as events occur with the SAP HANA appliance. Virtustream empowers you to query multiple types of data sources in real time, at speeds and volumes never before experienced in a production environment. Now you can:

Make Smarter Decisions - Faster, with Real-time Analytics

Create Innovative Applications to Improve Planning

Enhance & Accelerate Business Performance

Reduce TCO with No Hardware, Maintenance, & Testing

If you answer yes to any of the following; then HANA with xStream™ should be highly considered for your business.

Do some reports or analytic applications lack timely responsiveness to provide optimal business benefit?
Would a 5x to 1000x performance improvement be material to your business?
Do you experience unacceptable downtimes, where your data warehouse is not available due to the need to load data?
Do you require (current) up-to-the-moment data?
Do you have a frequent need to create new reports or analytical applications, but IT struggles to maintain and perform under changing user demands?

Consider the benefit to your business by realizing substantial performance improvements, up-to-the-moment data in the warehouse, reduced capital & operating costs, and neutralizing the overall complexity associated with operating and maintaining your SAP infrastructure.

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