SAP Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

SAP systems are indispensable in many organizations, and their failure can have significant financial consequences. While the focus used to be on technical malfunctions, which were mitigated with disaster recovery (DR) measures, attack scenarios with criminal intent are becoming increasingly important today. Both types of risks can be effectively reduced through careful planning and the use of technical solutions. Thanks to modern cloud technologies, this is often more cost-efficient today than it was in the past.

Our holistic, multi-level approach supports you from risk identification to the development of appropriate disaster recovery (DR) strategies, all the way through to implementation and orchestration. Our goal is not only to provide security on paper, but also to enable you to quickly and efficiently verify the protection of your systems at any time.

PCG offers a comprehensive portfolio: We possess in-depth SAP expertise as well as knowledge in related areas through our business units specialized in hyperscalers. These cover a wide range of services – from infrastructure, managed services, security, and modern workplace to application development and artificial intelligence. Our expertise goes beyond SAP – because business continuity must not and should not stop at SAP.

PCG Services.

PCG’s services can be summarized as follows:

REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS

• Conducting an initial workshop
• Identifying the scenarios to be secured
• Recording the systems and environments to be protected

DR CONCEPT

• Development of a high-level DR concept
• Identification and discussion of open issues with the customer

TARGET ENVIRONMENT SETUP

• Deployment and configuration of the ALPACA Orchestrator & ALPACA Operator on Amazon Web Services
• Deployment of the SAP system including database

DR SETUP FOR ONE SYSTEM

• Configuration of the DR setup for one SAP system
• Test failover to the “DR side”
• Demo with the customer

ALPACA AUTOMATION SUITE

• Optimized for automated SAP operations in the cloud and on-premise
• Ensures a production-ready system environment on AWS, including monitoring, backup/restore, business continuity management, and security hardening
• Enhances hyperscaler capabilities with up-to-date SAP best practices
• Includes all functionalities required for managing the DR scenario
• One-year subscription included

OPTIONAL: AWS PLATFORM SUBSCRIPTION

• If desired, PCG can also provide an AWS subscription for the DR scenario