Navigating the SAP Tightrope: Innovation vs. Control in a Volatile World
SUSE, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
SUSE argues a hybrid cloud strategy lets SAP shops innovate while keeping control and data sovereignty.
This article examines how organizations running SAP can balance rapid innovation against strict security and control requirements.
The author advocates a hybrid cloud strategy that keeps mission-critical SAP production workloads on-premises while using public cloud for non-core functions. SUSE solutions, including live patching, advanced high-availability clustering, and AI-assisted operations via the Model Context Protocol, are presented as enabling modernization without sacrificing data sovereignty or regulatory compliance.
Examples from ArcelorMittal and Bunge illustrate simultaneous gains in availability, performance, and cost.