Unlock the Value of Your Distributed Data with SAP Data Hub on SUSE®

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Cloud Solutions/SAP Solutions WhitepaperUnlock the Value of Your Distributed Data with SAP Data Hub on SUSE

Today’s enterprises run on data, but simply having massive vol-umes of information doesn’t provide much benefit. Unlocking the value of your data—such as internal and cloud-based databases, email, social media, Hadoop clusters and partner data—requires the ability to securely store and manage it, make it easily acces-sible to all the people who need it, and ensure the ability to view it regardless of data type or location. Only then can you use it efficiently to extract insights to create agile processes and deliver the superior experiences your customers demand.

SAP and SUSE can help. SAP Data Hub is designed to help you secure, manage and access your data more effectively. It’s a data orchestration tool that pulls together all of your data sets from various sources and unifies them within a single graphi-cal interface. Combine the simple data orchestration and easy scaling of SAP Data Hub with a powerful SUSE foundation of mission-critical software defined infrastructure, and you have the ideal solution to help you take control of your data and put it to work for your organization.

Data Challenges in the EnterpriseData is changing the way enterprises operate and grow, but to-day’s data environments are more complex than ever. It requires the right know-how and the right infrastructure to make sense of it all—especially because data is coming into the organization from a wide variety of sources.

The biggest data challenges faced by enterprises today include:

Silos–Dataisstoredinfiles,datawarehousesandvarioussystemsacrosstheorganization—includingHadoopdatalakesandcloudstorage.It’sdifficultforuserstoaccessdatafromallthevariouslocationswhentheyaren’tinterconnected.Andthedataisn’thelpfulunlessitcanbeconnectedtobusinessprocesses.

Governance–Managingdatasecurityandprivacyandensuringaccuracyareparamount.Withoutcomprehensivegovernance,youranalyticsandapplicationsthatusethatdatacouldbeatrisk.

Enterprise readiness–Thetechnologiesthathelpyougatherandstorebigdata,suchasHadoop,oftendon’thavethegovernance,securityandaccessmanagementfeaturesthatenterprisesneed.

Lack of integration tools–Manyofthetoolsusedtointegratebigdatawithenterprisesystemstodayrequirehighlytrainedpeopleandmanualoversight.

Lack of skill sets –Theabilitytoimplementandscalebigdataprojectsalsorequiresspecializedskills,andthesepeoplearehardtofindandretain.

Simple Data Orchestration and Easy Scaling with SUSE and SAP

“For our customers, SUSE CaaS Platform simplifies and standardizes container orchestration, helping them to deploy more efficiently. This means they can focus on developing apps that deliver business value, instead of setting up infrastructure.”

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SAP Data Hub Is the Answer to These Challenges With SAP Data Hub, you can overcome these challenges and reduce the complexity of your data landscapes. Intelligent en-terprises are using SAP Data Hub to get more out of their grow-ing stores of data with an organized and scalable approach to managing data landscapes.

SAP Data Hub is a data-sharing, pipelining and orchestration solution that empowers you to increase the flow of data across your organization. It gives you visibility and access into all of your data systems and assets, without the need to move or copy data into a central data warehouse. SAP Data Hub also enables you to easily and quickly develop data pipelines through a drag-and-drop interface.

The solution uses a single management layer and a single control panel to unify data governance and management. That governance

can include ensuring security, providing access and change con-trols and determining where data comes from and where it can go.

The SAP Data Hub foundation consists of: DataHubSystemsManagement SAPVoradatabase DataHubPipelineEngine DataHubApplications Internalmetadatadatabase

Add Even More Value with a SUSE FoundationIn order to take advantage of the benefits of scalability, SAP made the strategic decision to build SAP Data Hub as a con-tainerized application.

This is where SUSE comes in, with a range of software-defined infrastructure that can increase the benefits of SAP Data Hub

Figure 1. SAPDataHubunitesdisparatedatasourceswhilemaintainingdatagovernanceandsecurity.Source:SAP

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Cloud Solutions/SAP Solutions WhitepaperUnlock the Value of Your Distributed Data with SAP Data Hub on SUSE

to new levels. SUSE can provide everything you need to ensure that SAP Data Hub operates smoothly and helps you get the most out of your data.

SUSE can provide: AKubernetesimplementationtorunSAPDataHub–SUSE

CaaSPlatform Flexibleandscalablesoftware-definedstoragetosupport

theentiresolution–SUSEEnterpriseStorage

A major source of enterprise data for many organizations is SAP HANA. SUSE provides excellent support for SAP solutions, thanks to our longtime relationship with SAP. In fact, SAP has chosen SUSE to run its internal SAP HANA databases. That means by selecting SUSE as a foundation for SAP Data Hub, you can run all your SAP applications on the same solutions, simplifying your IT environment.

With these SUSE solutions, you can: Quicklyandeasilyimplementacontainerplatformto

supportSAPDataHub Simplifyorchestrationandmanagementwithatested

Kubernetesimplementation EasilyscaleyourDataHubsolutiontokeepupwith

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SUSE solutions enable you to not only gain support for today’s Data Hub needs, but also help you develop your environment to support future needs as well.

A Closer Look at the ComponentsSUSE CaaS PlatformSUSE CaaS Platform is an enterprise-class container manage-ment solution that enables both IT and DevOps to more easily deploy, manage and scale container-based applications and ser-vices. It includes Kubernetes to automate lifecycle management of modern applications and surrounding technologies that en-rich Kubernetes and make the platform itself easy to operate. It is validated to run SAP Data Hub and is also certified by the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to ensure reliability.

The platform can leverage Kubernetes orchestration to continu-ally and seamlessly apply security updates for the operating system and all of its components across all nodes. You can ap-ply these updates in a rolling release, moving across the entire cluster one machine at a time, to maintain resiliency while still keeping your nodes current.

Role-based access control limits access to resources, functions and services as necessary. And a local container registry helps to manage container images more efficiently and securely.

SUSE CaaS Platform is based on SUSE’s SAP-certified Linux operating system and offers a small footprint with optimal use of resources.

SUSE Enterprise StorageSUSE Enterprise Storage is powered by Ceph, which is a highly scalable and resilient open source, software-defined storage solution. It enables you to build cost-efficient storage using off-the-shelf servers and disk drives. It delivers storage functionality comparable to mid- and high-end storage products at a fraction of the cost, including file, block and object storage in a single solution.

The solution offers a flexible, cluster-based design for graceful and inexpensive upgrades and near-linear scaling. It delivers a self-heal-ing and self-managed distributed storage cluster that is designed to scale from hundreds of terabytes to petabytes and beyond. It is highly redundant and designed so that there are no single points of failure, maximizing system resiliency and availability.Figure 2. SUSECaaSPlatformcanhelpoptimizeSAPDataHub

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The SAP Data Hub solution provides storage for SAP HANA, as well as persistent volumes for containers running on SUSE CaaS Platform. SAP Data Hub does not support NFS, making a Ceph-based solution like SUSE Enterprise Storage the best solution.

Partnered Up for Your SuccessWith SAP Data Hub on the SUSE software-defined infrastructure and application delivery framework, you gain peace of mind from the knowledge that SUSE and SAP are longtime collabora-tors committed to ensuring that SAP solutions run at peak per-formance on SUSE infrastructure. In fact, SAP trusts SUSE to run its internal mission-critical apps and external-facing customer platforms, reducing risk and variability. SUSE is the mission-critical open source SDI provider to SAP.

Together, SUSE and SAP can deliver all the infrastructure and so-lutions that empower you to secure, manage and use your data to grow your organization and realize opportunities for innovation.

“We looked at other orchestration solutions not based on Kubernetes and found that SUSE CaaS Platform needs 50 percent fewer compute resources—be they physical or virtual.”

MICHAEL REHCo-founder&CEOTymlez

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