Rackspace releases new product for partners

Cloudy Rackspace has launched its SDDC (Software Defined Data Centre) Enterprise and Business for SAP with VMware virtualised computing, storage, network, and cloud management products for its channel partners.

The multi-tenant VMware solutions enable business-critical SAP and SAP HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) environments with a fully integrated hardware and software stack for private clouds. The enterprise-ready grade solution and SAP-certified pre-configuration based on Dell VxRail is a turnkey experience that enables innovation.

The Rackspace SDDC Enterprise and SDDC Business offer numerous additional add-on services as VMware vRealize Suite, physical and virtual operations ops management and Rackspace Data Protection for disaster recovery (DR) management and VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) interconnect services. In addition, SDDC Enterprise and Business for SAP uses either shared, dedicated or virtual storage area networks (VSAN) based Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) storage that is SAP’s stringent requirement for the latest SAP HANA database, including the current S/4 HANA generation.

“SAP customers using SDDC  benefit from the high performance levels of an SAP-certified solution running on dedicated hardware and the latest VMware software-defined networking and storage technologies, as well as Rackspace Private Cloud,” said Kevin Carroll, General Manager of Rackspace’s ERP business. “The SDDC for SAP infrastructure solution leverages Rackspace’s extensive expertise and partnership with SAP to deliver flexible, SAP-certified solutions for running highly critical enterprise workloads.”

The SDDC infrastructure solution expands Rackspace’s Private Virtual Cloud (PVC) product and solution offering and now provides certified options for SAP customers with this solution. Rackspace’s ERP application services and more than 20 years of SAP expertise can extend the core capabilities and services of SDDC for SAP to help customers architect, migrate and manage their SAP applications.

– Designated SAP Service Authorised Partner: Provides customers with consultants or system integrators who offer strategic consulting, system design, integration, and implementation of SAP solutions.

– Combines Rackspace-certified capabilities to deliver SAP application, hosting, and infrastructure services.

– It uses alliance partnerships with Dell and VMware to deliver the SDDC Enterprise and Business for SAP with VMware’s virtualised computing, storage, networking, and cloud management capabilities.

– Deliver a configured solution that meets SAP certification requirements.