FinOps and SAP: Part 6. Next Steps
In the last weeks, I published a series of 5 articles related to FinOps for cloud-deployed SAP environments: first, I introduced the concepts of FinOps and expand why it’s relevant …
FinOps and SAP: Part 5. Recommendations continued.
Today, we’ll continue from where we left off last time. This time, we’ll focus on FinOps options that could be used for some of the more flexible and dynamic SAP …
FinOps and SAP: Part 4. Recommendations for cost-optimising SAP systems.
Previous article was an easy one. It showed that with IaaS, there aren’t a lot of components to look at when cost-optimising IT workloads. Still, there are different optimisation techniques …
FinOps and SAP: Part 3. Main cost drivers.
After explaining what FinOps is and why it is valid from SAP perspective, I gave you some tips on how to include SAP SMEs into your company FinOps practice. Today, …
FinOps and SAP: Part 2. How to kick off a FinOps practice.
Now that we know what FinOps is and why SAP needs to be part of it, let’s try to think about how to initiate FinOps practice and make SAP a …
FinOps and SAP: Part 1. The “what” and “why”.
Welcome! After a longer period of silence, I decided to reactivate publishing on sapongcp.eu and this is actually first of a series of articles related to FinOps and how it …
GCP resources used by SAP: Network.
Virtual Private Network Just like a project is needed for creating any GCP resource, you need a VPC (Virtual Private Network) before you can create any other resource for our …
GCP resources used by SAP: Basics.
Today’s article will definitely not be as heavy as the previous one, where I wrote about different security aspects within GCP. At the same time, I will get more specific …
Security in Google Cloud Platform.
Security is one of the biggest concerns that hold companies from migrating to the cloud. That’s understandable, especially if we’re talking about mission critical, backend systems that contain a lot …
Why GCP? Comparison with the rivals.
Let’s be honest: Google is not the first choice for providing public cloud for most of the companies. In fact, as of early 2020, it’s the third player with around …
Different approaches to migrating SAP to public cloud.
I’ve already explained why the idea of migrating SAP system to public cloud is not science fiction anymore (click here if you did not read this post). Different hyperscalers proved …
Is public cloud suitable for SAP?
Let’s face it: SAP is usually not the first application you’d want to migrate to the public cloud. These big, monolithic backbone systems have always been running in dedicated data …
Introduction to SAP on GCP.
About me Welcome! It’s a first of a series of articles related to running SAP workloads on Google Cloud Platform. Let me introduce myself and provide a very high-level plan …