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Jackie Funk
Dimension Data Americas
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DIMENSION DATA NOW A SAP-CERTIFIED PROVIDER OF CLOUD AND HOSTING
SERVICES FOR SAP® SOLUTIONS; STANDARDIZES CLOUD SERVER IMAGES FOR
DEPLOYMENT OF SAP SOLUTIONS
New Pre-configured Images Enable Rapid Deployment of SAP Software on Dimension Data’s Cloud
Platform
EMC WORLD, Las Vegas, NV – May 6, 2014 –– Dimension Data, the $6 billion global ICT solutions and
services provider, today announced it is now a SAP-certified global provider of cloud and hosting services
for SAP® solutions. Dimension Data also released a set of pre-configured cloud server images that
makes it easy, safe and cost-effective to provision an environment of SAP solutions. With Dimension
Data’s cloud server images for the SAP ERP application available for its cloud clients, users can, in most
cases, have a new cloud server operational on Dimension Data’s Managed Cloud Platform (MCP) within
30 minutes.
Dimension Data offers integrated, enterprise-class cloud services that enable businesses to leverage the
flexibility of the cloud for both temporary and mission-critical data center workloads, such as enterprise
applications and production web applications. Dimension Data’s hosting and cloud services have been
certified by SAP for meeting high-quality operational standards to deliver SAP software, including the
SAP ERP, SAP Supply Chain Management, SAP Customer Relationship Management, SAP Product
Lifecycle
Management
and
SAP
Supplier
Relationship
Management
applications
and
SAP
BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence solutions. This certification applies to Dimension Data’s MCPs
globally for the next two years.
Dimension Data clients can host their own environments running SAP solutions on Dimension Data’s
cloud infrastructure or utilize Dimension Data’s cloud server images for SAP ERP. These consist of a set
of standardized builds involving the SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0, Microsoft Windows®
2008 R2 and Microsoft SQL Server® 2012 that can be deployed in minutes onto a virtual machine in the
Dimension Data Cloud.
1 Dimension Data’s public cloud and managed hosting environments enable clients and partners to
develop, test and customize SAP applications quickly while reducing upfront capital expenses (capex)
and ongoing operating expenses (opex), delivering the benefits of mobility, flexibility and scalability for
local and global SAP solution-based environments. Dimension Data supports the full data center lifecycle
of both mission-critical applications such as SAP ERP and temporary workloads. Its cloud capability
enables clients to reduce the time it takes to make changes to their implementation of SAP applications,
helping improve their agility to meet strict business timelines while reducing risk and increasing uptime.
Dimension Data’s cloud services leverage the company’s deep data center and networking expertise and
high-performance global cloud platform. For enterprise clients and SAP’s ecosystem partners, Dimension
Data’s combination of systems integration and cloud capability helps ease the transition of SAP
applications from traditional data centers to a cloud environment.
“Our enterprise clients and provider partners can benefit from the right size, right scale and right time
characteristics of the cloud to deliver significant cost savings and efficiency gains for their cloud-based
SAP applications coupled with our experience in optimizing the data center,” said Steve Nola, Group
Executive of Dimension Data’s IT-as-a-Service Business Unit. “SAP is the world's leading provider of
enterprise software and services, and the certification of our cloud and hosting services is a vital part of
our global strategy to enable clients to offload their SAP applications in production environments and
temporary workloads.”
As an SAP global partner and SAP-certified provider of hosting and cloud services, Dimension Data will
provide a cost-effective delivery model for mission-critical SAP applications. To achieve this certification
from SAP, Dimension Data’s infrastructure, physical and logical security measures, processes, portal, and
technical staff went through extensive review by SAP to validate the operational integration of its support
of SAP applications to help ensure compliance with SAP's requirements for quality, availability and
security. As an SAP-certified provider of cloud and hosting services for SAP solutions, Dimension Data
can perform a range of IT services related to SAP applications, from initial proof-of-concepts to rapid
deployments for customers of their SAP solutions.
To further ensure ongoing high standards for the management of SAP solutions, SAP-certified providers
of cloud and hosting services for SAP solutions undergo a rigorous assessment of their delivery and
support capabilities every two years by SAP’s outsourcing partner certification group.
Today, Dimension Data’s cloud services can be accessed globally via MCPs in San Jose, Calif., and
Ashburn, Va., U.S.; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; Johannesburg,
South Africa; London, UK; Tokyo, Japan; and Hong Kong.
2 In addition to the newly released images for the SAP enhancement package, Dimension Data provides
users with an online service catalog of pre-configured commercial software as an operating system (OS)
image that incurs additional charges when deployed as a server. This software can be software installed
on the OS image or it can be part of the OS image itself. Dimension Data cloud software is priced hourly
or monthly and provides the same pay-for-use flexibility of using cloud servers and cloud files.
Dimension Data has pre-built accelerators for small-, medium- and large-scale cloud deployments of SAP
solutions. All of the cloud server images include Microsoft Windows® 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition,
Microsoft SQL Server® 2012 Enterprise Edition and the SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0.
To activate the service, users must provide their own licences for SAP ERP.
For more information on Dimension Data’s SAP-certified cloud and hosting services, please visit the
Dimension Data stand #842 at EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas from 5 – 8 May 2014.
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About Dimension Data
Founded in 1983, Dimension Data plc is an ICT services and solutions provider that uses its technology
expertise, global service delivery capability, and entrepreneurial spirit to accelerate the business
ambitions of its clients. Dimension Data is a member of the NTT Group. Visit us at
http://www.dimensiondata.com/en-US and www.facebook.com/DimensionDataAmericas or follow us on
Twitter: @DimensionDataAM.
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product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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