SAP TechEd: SIOS Delivers SAP Certified, Automated Configuration, Validation and Management

SIOS Technology Corp., a provider of IT resilience through intelligent application availability, announced at SAP TechEd that the latest releases of SIOS LifeKeeper 9.4 and SIOS DataKeeper 9.4, sold as SIOS Protection Suite for Linux, have achieved SAP certification (S/4-HA-CLU 1.0) for SAP S/4HANA.

This certification recognises that SIOS provides technology and expertise in delivering HA and DR for SAP in physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Integrated with SAP S/4HANA, this release delivers features that simplify overall management and increase overall availability protection through automation of setup, monitoring, and failure management within SAP environments.

“SAP is a critical business system that customers increasingly want to move to the cloud,” said Nobu Kita, CEO, SIOS. “We hear from customers and integrators about the challenges they face needing to meet the same SLAs in the cloud as they have been delivering on-premises. We understand these requirements and our latest releases with SAP S/4HANA certification, along with simpler and more flexible packaging, further expand our ability to enable customers to move their SAP environments to the cloud with confidence.“

The SIOS Competence Center team at Computer Concept in Dresden, Germany, worked closely with the SIOS team and AWS to achieve SAP certification.

Thomas Zetzsche, team leader SAP, Computer Concept, commented: “SIOS Protection Suite can now provide highly available cloud and on-premises SAP HA solutions for NetWeaver and S/4HANA customers. This new HA Solution for SAP environments, with new support for the Standalone Enqueue Server (ENSA) 2 and the Enqueue Replicator 2, now allows customers to build clusters with three or more servers, removing the previous limit of two server clusters. This is a huge advance in increasing the reliability of business-critical SAP systems and providing greater flexibility for organisations moving into cloud environments as part of their digital transformation projects.“

Typical clustering solutions use a shared storage cluster configuration to deliver HA, which is not available in the cloud. SIOS provides the ability to create a clustered HA solution in the cloud, without shared storage, ensuring data protection between two separate servers. SIOS DataKeeper continuously replicates changed data between systems in different cloud availability zones and regions, while SIOS LifeKeeper monitors critical SAP system services to ensure availability of SAP applications. If an outage occurs and the services cannot be recovered, LifeKeeper will automatically orchestrate a failover to the standby systems.

To simplify and accelerate the deployment of HA clusters in the cloud, SIOS provides Automated Deployment Templates. These templates enable easy creation of a SIOS SAP cluster and provide complete step-by-step guides for AWS environments, and Red Hat and SUSE OSs. Deployment templates and step-by-step guides for Azure will follow in November.

At SAP TechEd in Barcelona, Spain, SIOS showcased how LifeKeeper and DataKeeper deliver HA for SAP environments – saving months of effort, improving operational flexibility, and lowering costs to setup and maintain.

SIOS expands further into the AWS ecosystem delivering a configured SAP certified HA and DR solution for critical applications running in AWS environments. Quickstart guides are available and will soon be delivered in the marketplaces.

LifeKeeper 9.4 and DataKeeper 9.4 are available in the SIOS Protection Suite for Linux.

Customers can license SIOS Protection Suites on an annual subscription basis to better align with SAP solutions and cloud deployments.