ESDS' ENlight Cloud And SLES-A Cost Effective Solution For SAP Application Hosting

Online, July 4, 2012 (Newswire.com) - ESDS has created an optimum platform with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on eNlight Cloud hosting, for organizations that are looking to host SAP applications on the latest version of SLES along with a platform like eNlight which is more interoperable, reliable and secure. ESDS' eNlight cloud hosting has dynamic provisioning and server schedule resources which forms the core of its services.

With this development, customers will be able to host all their SAP applications on a single platform which is Linux certified and approved by SAP, and is optimized for physical and virtual applications. As a result, the customers can install applications quickly with improved performance and at lower total cost of ownership with additional business support services provided by ESDS. eNlight, with its unique pay-per-consume billing model, optimizes your SAP Application hosting expenses. eNlight's auto-scaling feature ensures that the SAP applications hosted on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server are allocated appropriate resources through up-scaling and down-scaling. The up-scaling of resources results in smooth and efficient performance of SAP Applications whereas the down-scaling ensures that you are not paying for resources when they aren't needed.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications meets the needs of mission-critical datacenters. It is an ideal solution for organizations that are looking to implement SAP software solutions with eNlight Cloud. In addition, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the only commercial Linux distribution, which is certified for deployment of hardware and devices based on SAP software. Latest developments in Cloud technology, SLES and SAP applications now converge with eNlight to provide the required cloud infrastructure for hosting SAP.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with eNlight Cloud provides an integrated workflow and automated installation for complete software solution and high availability of service packages and extended support.

Key operational benefits from the combination of eNlight Cloud Hosting, SLES and SAP are:

- Faster installation to accelerate time-to-results,

- Business continuity,

- Built-in to protect mission-critical enterprise operations,

- Reduction in the cost of operations and ongoing maintenance.

With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, the ISVs can offer solutions that are optimized with eNlight linux Cloud hosting for all SAP workloads, offering unique features and services at a much lower price for the customer compared to other Linux vendors. In addition to the optimum pricing of eNlight, its security features ensure that all data contained in SAP applications is hosted in a safe environment, which is protected through Network Isolation, Storage Security, Network Security, Server Isolation etc.

CEO & MD of ESDS Mr. Piyush Somani concluded, "The goal to optimize Linux Platform With eNlight Cloud For using with SAP Applications is to increase the computing power and workloads that are memory intensive, including those related to the SAP platform. Among other innovations, the new solution enables customers to manage SAP applications on latest hardware platforms to improve workload scalability, reliability and performance of computing and memory intensive."