Duncan Edmonstone

Duncan is a 25-year technology industry veteran with experience in software engineering, customer presales and sales, including the last 13 years with HP and HPE. Duncan has been helping customers implement SAP infrastructure since 2001, and is now a Mission Critical Solutions Sales Specialist in the HPE UK&I Geography.

SAP S/4 HANA on public cloud: It can be done, but should it be done?

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In HPE we have been speaking to customers recently about models for deployment of SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA. Many customers we speak to are considering deploying these workloads in the public cloud. At the same time, the strong message from SAP is to run S/4HANA in the cloud[1], whether that be SAP’s own cloud or one of the public cloud hyperscalers that SAP has a relationship with. While the public cloud clearly has a place in the SAP architect’s kit bag, we believe that SAP architects should not only consider whether or not they can run S/4 in the public cloud, but also whether they should.
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