VMware's customer success stories include SAP hosting companies that deploy SAP on VMware Infrastructure and gain a 25-30% price advantage to their customers serving the same SLA's. Other customers expect infrastructure savings of more than €1M over 3 years after consolidating and migrating a True64 bit environment into a Windows environment. To migrate with current virtualization technologies from HP, IBM, Sun and Fujitsu Siemens, you have to stop SAP applications before you can move them from one server to the other. With VMware tools such as VMotion™, these cumbersome operations are a thing of the past.

Here are some key benefits to deploying SAP on VMware Infrastructure:

• SAP infrastructure savings through consolidation and migration
• High availability at low cost
• Flexible maintenance and planned down time
• Ease of hardware lifecycle management and provisioning
• Increased compliance between old and new SAP instances