Oracle IT Infrastructure Solutions for SAP

Oracle’s technologies enable customers to manage information, streamline business processes, and reduce the costs and complexity of managing their IT infrastructures.

Now, with the addition of Sun’s servers (SPARC and x86), storage, Oracle Solaris, and virtualization technologies, Oracle provides open and integrated systems—from application to disk—that offer seamless integration, superior performance, scalability for growth, reliability, and security.  

Together, Oracle’s Sun hardware and software and SAP technology offer end-to-end SAP infrastructure solutions that improve productivity, increase system utilization, and transform your technology infrastructure into an eco-friendly data center.

• Oracle IT Infrastructure for SAP data centers
  Upgrading SAP on Oracle’s Sun technology can help to improve user productivity, consolidate workloads, and better utilize resources—resulting in dramatically reduced data center costs. Oracle’s eco-optimized IT infrastructure for SAP data center solutions provide a methodology for upgrading existing SAP Business Suite applications with eco-efficient Sun servers, storage, the Oracle Solaris OS, and industry-leading virtualization technologies.
• SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator on Oracle Sun Systems
  Oracle's Sun hardware systems are pretested and pre-configured to power the SAP BW Accelerator Appliance. The solution is integrated, tested, and ready to deploy to existing SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence component environments.
• Governance, Security, and Compliance
  To meet today’s growing regulatory demands, companies continue to struggle with reactive implementation strategies and solutions. Oracle and SAP provide complete visibility throughout the enterprise, enabling control over network resources, ERP applications, and other mission-critical business applications.
• Midsize Business
  To stay competitive, midsize businesses must have visibility into operations data and processes so they can carefully track customers, sales, delivery, and support—all while spending IT dollars wisely. SAP Business All-in-One running on Oracle’s Sun technology offers a flexible midsize business solution with industry best practices built in—on an affordable, eco-friendly, scalable, and reliable platform.

Oracle’s Sun servers and storage, complete virtualization portfolio, thin clients, integration and management tools, and the Oracle Solaris operating system thin clients integration and management tools provide the performance, scalability, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness that help you meet your business needs using SAP solutions. With Oracle’s complete family of IT infrastructure, servers, and storage, you have a choice of architectures.

Operating Systems
SAP supports the Oracle Solaris OS, Windows OS, and Linux on Oracle’s Sun platforms.

• Hardware certification for SAP on Solaris x64
• SAP on Windows list of certified hardware
• SAP on Linux—list of hardware released by Sun Microsystems

Desktops
Oracle offers the ability to manage desktops and updates centrally, hosting applications and data securely in the data center—and avoiding the high costs of traditional distributed desktops in SAP environments. You can provision new users in minutes, and they can access applications running on multiple platforms from a single device.

• Oracle’s Sun Ray Virtual Display Clients reduce the maintenance, upgrading, and operational costs of most desktop environments.
• Oracle Secure Global Desktop software provides secure access to centralized Windows, UNIX/Linux, mainframe, and midrange applications from a wide range of popular client devices, including Microsoft Windows PCs, Oracle Solaris OS Workstations, thin clients, and more.
• Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software 3.3 delivers access to a highly secure, resilient, and available virtual desktop environment on a wide variety of client devices, from traditional PCs to Sun Ray Virtual Display Clients.

Sun Blade Servers
Oracle’s Sun Blade servers deliver fast performance, easy scalability, energy efficiency, and longevity and also support your choice of architectures—UltraSPARC and Intel Xeon processors, Oracle Solaris OS, Linux, Windows, and VMware—in a single common chassis.

Running SAP applications on Sun Blade systems can help you make the most of your SAP infrastructure. The open architecture of the Sun Blade systems platform provides the flexibility to respond quickly to changing business needs and expand your SAP infrastructure.

Sun x86 Servers
Oracle’s Sun x86 servers offer an economical, enterprise-class alternative. Combining the scalable Oracle Solaris 10 OS and Oracle’s powerful, energy-efficient Intel processor-based systems creates a mission-critical platform that can cost-effectively deliver manageability, flexibility, security, and reliability.

Mid- to High-End Servers
Oracle Solaris OS running on Oracle's Sun SPARC and x86 servers are ideal for simplifying the SAP environment in medium- and large-sized companies and enable you to take advantage of affordable virtualization and consolidation, Web-tier environments, Cloud Computing, smaller databases, and large-scale enterprise applications. Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise T-Series servers with chip multithreading technology (CMT) deliver exceptional throughput for SAP applications, helping you deliver enterprise computing solutions with breakthrough performance.

Storage
Oracle’s Sun storage offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of high-performance, cost-effective, and easy-to-manage storage solutions. These products optimize performance, maximize data protection, and reduce the cost of ownership for Oracle databases, SAP applications, and heterogeneous environments.

Databases
SAP supports the following databases running on Oracle’s Sun platforms and Oracle Solaris:

• Oracle Database
• IBM DB2
• SAP MaxDB

Oracle Infrastructure Services and Support
Oracle Systems support includes integrated packages of support services that deliver comprehensive Sun hardware and software support for SAP users with mission-critical and business-critical applications. These services are designed to handle your urgent business requirements. As part of the Oracle service and support offerings, you have access to SAP-specific systems support. Based on their long-lasting relationship, Oracle and SAP continue to collaborate in resolving complex interoperability issues.