SAP Certifies Software to Run on Amazon

IDG News Service — Users of SAP's BusinessObjects and Rapid Deployment products are now able to run the applications from Amazon's cloud, marking the first time SAP has worked to make its software available on a public cloud service.

While businesses already can use hosted SAP software, those offerings, from vendors including IBM, Verizon and Dell, are on hosted private clouds. "This is SAP's first public cloud foray," said Kevin Ichhpurani, senior vice president of SAP's global ecosystem and channels group.

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SAP worked closely with AWS to optimize the virtual instances on the computing, network and storage layers for the best performance, Ichhpurani said. Nevertheless, clients must make separate arrangements with SAP and AWS for the service, paying each company individually.

Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for The IDG News Service. Follow Nancy on Twitter at @idgnancy. Nancy's e-mail address is Nancy_Gohring@idg.com

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