Global Alliances - SAP

SAP's Solution

SAP® is the world's leading provider of business software solutions. Today, more than 26,150 customers in over 120 countries run more than 88,700 installations of SAP software—from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small and midsize businesses to enterprise-scale suite solutions for global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver™ platform to drive innovation and enable business change, mySAP™ Business Suite solutions are helping enterprises around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration, and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP industry solutions support the unique business processes of more than 25 industry segments, including high tech, retail, public sector, and financial services. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and NYSE under the symbol SAP. For more information, please visit the SAP web site at www.sap.com.

The Foundry Networks and SAP Joint Solution

In collaboration with SAP and SAP customers, FOUNDRY Networks has created a solution that delivers security, high availability, and improved performance for SAP web and portal technologies. By deploying FOUNDRY Networks ServerIron products with a SAP Portal, enterprises extend their control over their network and application traffic. The ServerIron device enables organizations to increase SAP application reliability by providing high availability through its advanced health checking capabilities. ServerIron also allows organizations to quickly scale their SAP solutions using advanced load balancing algorithms to meet growing application demands. FOUNDRY is also a member of SAP's Enterprise Services Community (ESC) and the Network Advisory Group within the ESC. The ServerIron has achieved SAP Certified Integration for third-party networking appliances that interoperate with SAP solutions using the SAP NetWeaver platform and an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA).

How can a customer benefit? Together, SAP and Foundry Networks bring you these combined benefits:

The joint testing of the SAP Enterprise SOA Application Delivery Solution between SAP and Foundry Networks provides a designed, tested, tuned, and integrated application delivery infrastructure for deployment of the SAP software. The ServerIron application delivery platform addresses the key infrastructure challenges of:

Performance Scalability

ServerIron can scale up to 12 Gbps throughput for Layer 4-7 load balancing.

SSL offload helps SAP servers to get cycles back for processing.

TCP multiplexing ensures efficient management of TCP connections.

High Availability and Business Continuity

Seamless failover of user sessions between two clustered ServerIrons

Health check for servers before forwarding sessions

Global server load balancing across multiple data centers

Security

Industry leading DoS attack protection performance

Spam mitigation and web filtering capabilities

Firewall augmentation and offload