Authors:
Valentina Salapura
and
Ruchi Mahindru
Affiliation:
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, United States
Keyword(s):
Enterprise Class Applications, HA Clusters, ERP Cloud Solutions.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Application Architectures
;
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Computing Architecture
;
Fundamentals
;
Platforms and Applications
Abstract:
Cloud environments offer flexibility, elasticity, and low cost compute infrastructure. Enterprise-level workloads – such as SAP and Oracle workloads - require infrastructure with high availability, clustering, or physical server appliances. These features are often not part of a typical cloud offering, and as a result, businesses are forced to run enterprise workloads in their legacy environments. To enable enterprise customers to use these workloads in a cloud, we enabled a large number of SAP and Oracle workloads in the IBM Cloud Managed Services (CMS) for both virtualized and non-virtualized cloud environments. In this paper, we discuss the challenges in enabling enterprise class applications in the cloud based on our experience on providing a diverse set of platforms implemented in the IBM CMS offering.