The infrastructure upon which an SAP system is based must be able to adapt with flexibility and agility to new business challenges within a reasonable budget. This book provides invaluable support by helping you identify your key infrastructure requirements and arms you with a comprehensive overview of available products and analyses their corresponding relations of cost vs. utility. You begin with a detailed discussion of sizing systems and components. Then, benefit immediately from a step-by-step review of the major critical system components such as platforms, data storage, HA solutions and, above all, networks. Each of these descriptions also considers the relevant cost structures. The last three chapters give you exclusive insights on the SAP Adaptive Computing Controller and its various uses. Youll learn how to limit your system landscape costs by implementing processes like ITSAM and Total Cost of Ownership, plus much more. Highlights: Sizing: SAP NetWeaver components, mySAP solutions, Bandwidth, Memory, Hard disksSystem platforms: Processors, Memory, I/O, Blades, Operating systems, DatabasesData storage: Subsystems, File systems, Caches, Archiving and much moreHigh Availability: Hardware, Operating system, Failover, Clusters, Backup & RecoveryPresentation and OutputNetworks: LAN, WAN, Bandwidth, Architectures, Security, High availabilitySAP Adaptive Computing ControllerTCO and ITSAM