Rackspace SDDC Flex

Certified SAP services provider: Rackspace Technology provides SAP-certified cloud infrastructure and hosting services with experts who are authorized for S/4HANA Cloud ERP and SAP Business Technology Platform.

SAP-certified infrastructure: An enterprise-grade configuration based on Dell VxRail, designed to meet the stringent SAP requirement. SDDC for SAP uses a combination of a shared, dedicated and an HCI-based VSAN solution, optimized to run the latest SAP HANA database, including the current generation of S/4HANA.

Dedicated hardware: Delivers predictable performance and security while simplifying software licensing.

Consistent operations across your VMware environments: Manage your Rackspace Private Cloud infrastructure with the same VMware management tools you use for your on-premises data center, such as the VMware vSphere client and native VMware APIs.

Optimize costs: See 40% or more saving vs. building and operating private clouds yourself.

Scale to meet business demands: Grow your physical compute, network and storage capacity in hours and days vs. the weeks or months.

Offload physical and virtual operations: Leave the day-to-day operations to us, so you can stay focused on business-critical objectives.

Deep expertise: Tap into the expertise of hundreds of VMware-certified experts to architect, deploy and troubleshoot your environment, no matter how complex.

Security and compliance: Layer on value-added services, like Rackspace Managed Security, for deep expertise and advanced threat intelligence.

Predictable deployment and lifecycle management: Gain predictable, low-risk deployments, continuous updates and improved VMware component lifecycle management.

These optional services are delivered by SAP-certified Rackspace Technology experts, who have deep SAP application and infrastructure support expertise. Services are tailored to your needs and available where and when you require them, including:

• SAP Basis managed services
• SAP Basis monitoring and management
• Assigned team of support engineers
• Database and application performance monitoring
• Application maintenance

SAP functional and development services include:

• We become your ERP application expert administrator, allowing your team to focus on critical business
• Deep application knowledge and industry experience
• Relieving the burden of day-to-day support from your business analysts

Development lifecycle processes provide:

• Requirements and test case documentation
• Testing enforcement and signoff     
• Reduced downtime

Business clarity and transparency

Leverage these optional add-on features to expand your SAP solution’s capabilities:

Data protection: Configure retention policies in real-time and restore from a protected snapshot within minutes.

Cloud management platform: Gain comprehensive lifecycle management, automation and policy-based governance for hybrid cloud environments.

Rackspace Disaster Recovery (DR): Own your DR plan, testing and declaration and execution of your recovery events.

VM management: Gain patching services for supported OSs, and enable constant scanning for dangerous scripts, viruses and malicious code.

HCX interconnect services: HCX supports all vSphere versions within the technical guidance support phase or newer, as defined by VMware.

RackConnect® Global: Gain multicloud connectivity by linking the leading interconnection exchanges and cloud providers to our proprietary backbone.

Specialized workloads: Gain the ability to run specialized workloads, such as Virtual Desktops, SAP Hana, Tanzu and HPC.

Accelerate and optimize your application by engaging a team of certified experts with expertise to help manage services across multicloud solutions that integrate across your environment.