The Economic and Business Case for Running SAP Infrastructure in the AWS Cloud

CIOs and technology leaders continue to weigh the benefits and limitations of traditional, on-premise storage and infrastructure for mission-critical, enterprise data and applications. While migrating your SAP environments to the cloud certainly offers increased agility and flexibility, it can also raise concerns around security and control.

This white paper outlines the fundamentals of cloud economics for CIOs and IT leaders, where you’ll develop a better understanding of the challenges of on-premise ERP and how to quantify the impact, as well as the operational and business advantages of cloud infrastructure, including dispelling some of the common myths of the cloud.

Download to discover why, as you weigh the fully burdened costs of running your own data center against the financial and strategic benefits of cloud, the case for “cloud economics” becomes more and more clear-cut, including:

• Reducing operational costs for facilities, power and cooling
• Decreasing hardware acquisition and maintenance costs
• Cutting redundancy costs that are inherent in the cloud model
• Easing staffing costs and headaches of retaining legacy skills