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DELIVERING A SEAMLESS MIGRATION OF SAP TO AZURE Cloud4C highlights its strong credentials to help customers move SAP workloads to Azure As the move to cloud has become more popular in the enterprise segment owing to the great advantages it offers, Cloud4C held a webinar that discussed at length how Cloud4C can help customers move SAP workloads to Azure. The presenters of the day included Karim Kallawi, EVP, Alliance, Cloud4C; Ravi Tank, VP, CSP, Cloud 4C and Aseem Gupta, head, SAP Services Sales, Cloud 4C who delivered detailed presentations covering various facets of the expertise offered by Cloud 4C in taking customers through the migration journey of moving SAP workloads onto Azure. The agenda of the day included giving an overview of Cloud4c’s Cloud Adoption Framework and taking the attendees through the three-stage approach that Cloud4C follows for moving SAP onto Azure. The sessions also provided insights into security & compliances on Azure as well as Data Localization Solution on Azure and detailing Cloud 4C’s SAP Services Portfolio. The session was attended by a number of senior IT leaders from different verticals. A Q&A session helped bring up the finale to the event. Karim Kallawi, EVP, Alliance, Cloud 4C gave a brief overview of the credentials of Cloud4C with building solutions for SAP on Azure. He said, “Cloud4C is a born in the cloud partner. As part of larger group which started off in the datacenter space, Cloud4C was built as a subsidiary providing managed services in the cloud. Our specialized expertise includes SAP on cloud services and SAP on Azure is a part of this focus.” “We are managing more than 40,000 VMs, managing over 2000 TB of data for SAP HANA and we have delivered over 1 billion hours of managed services. This has been delivered through a team of over 1800 cloud experts. Our service delivery is based out of India with local presence in markets we address. In MEA, Dubai is the HQ and have satellite offices in KSA and Qatar, BDM coverage in Bahrain.” As a leading services provider in the industry, Cloud4C has many certifications and industry specializations. Elaborating further on these, Karim added, “Among the badges we are most honored to wear is that of Microsoft Azure Expert MSP. The process is complex and requires you to prove to a third-party auditor that you can deliver what you claim to be capable of. We achieved this certification in 2019 and renewed it this year as it is an ongoing certification.”
Karim Kallawi EVP, Alliance, Cloud 4C
Cloud4C decided to go beyond this and prove itself in other areas as well, focusing on specific skillsets. “In terms of Microsoft Cloud, we are expert Migration partners and have achieved advanced certification for Windows and SQL migration. We are just about to be audited for the Linux specialization. More importantly, we have recently achieved the SAP on Azure advanced specialization.” For Cloud4C customers, it means they can be assured of an end to end cloud lifecycle management with very in-depth technical expertise. Cloud4C delivers this through a team as big as 670 Azure certified experts. Recognizing Cloud4C’s capability in migrating to the cloud, Microsoft awarded it as partner of the year for Qatar last year. Ravi Tank, VP, CSP, Cloud4C gave a detailed presentation, covering covered many aspects of the migration and implementation journey. Below is a summary of his talk under various sub-topics: NOVEMBER 2020 / CXO DX
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