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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kharitonov, Andrey
• Nahhas, Abdulrahman
• Müller, Hendrik
• Turowski, Klaus

Titel

Towards hybrid-cloud infrastructure composition for SAP systems landscapes in smart manufacturing

Ist Teil von

• Procedia computer science, 2024, Vol.232, p.2376-2385

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To achieve the objective of smart manufacturing, the adoption of cloud computing is inevitable. However, the implications of fully or partially moving the manufacturing-related workloads to the cloud is a strategic decision that is rarely investigated thoroughly enough in the literature, especially for standard off-the-shelf enterprise IT applications, such as various SAP products. Specifically, in the related research, it is kept on a high level of conceptual representation without analysis of the specific cloud products required for such infrastructure. In this work, we discuss cloud setup for smart manufacturing while taking into account four main pillars of cloud infrastructure required for standard IT solutions, namely: compute, storage, networking, and backups. We also consider different degrees of high availability requirements since these fundamentally impact how cloud architecture should be designed. After discussing these elements, we demonstrate how these elements are mapped to the real-world cloud offerings on the example use case of Microsoft Azure. We close the paper with a discussion on further consideration of operational costs while pointing out the complexity of the pricing model.