Architecting SAP for Resilience: A Business Continuity Guide for IT Leaders
SUSE, Friday, September 25th, 2026
SUSE lays out five resilience goals for SAP environments spanning local high availability and regional disaster recovery.
SUSE argues SAP resilience requires moving beyond basic hardware failover to also address routine patching, upgrades and full regional outages.
It frames a practical strategy around five goals: avoiding maintenance reboots via live patching, protecting services from local component failures, automating recovery within a high-availability cluster, surviving a full regional outage through disaster recovery, and safely restoring the original environment afterward.
IT leaders must balance Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives against operational complexity when architecting these layers. The guide positions local HA and regional DR together as the foundation of real business continuity for SAP.