Audi puts SAP in IBM private

cloud
Cliff Saran 
Wednesday 20 April 2011 15:36

IBM has built a private cloud to host Audi's SAP infrastructure. Over the next four years the private cloud
aims to deliver higher performance, fast and flexible provision of SAP applications and capacities, lower
infrastructure costs, and above-average energy efficiency to enlarge future SAP applications.

"Along with a very high level of reliability and failure safety the new SAP Infrastructure solution, which we
will migrate into a private cloud, substantially lowers energy consumption and proved the implementation
being successful," said Audi's Lorenz Schöberl, head of IT Infrastructure Services.

Audi was facing challenges to scale its IT systems by the increased use of business-critical applications in
areas such as production and logistics, supplier relationship management and human resources. This
took their IT infrastructure to its limits regarding reliability and flexibility.