Equinix Speeds SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure Fast On-Ramp to the Cloud Via Equinix Fabric™ and Azure Expressroute Accelerates ERP Performance

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Equinix Speeds SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure Fast on-ramp to the cloud via Equinix Fabric™ and Azure ExpressRoute accelerates ERP performance

Overview About Microsoft Azure Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT; At Equinix, we believe digital infrastructure is your greatest competitive @ microsoft) enables digital advantage. Digital leaders need one place to bring together and transformation for the era of interconnect the foundational infrastructure that makes true network an intelligent cloud and an optimization possible. intelligent edge. Its mission is SAP customers preparing to migrate their on-premises SAP applications to empower every person and to the cloud face a massive undertaking made more complex by legacy every organization on the planet networks that impede migrations. With few access points for SAP availability to achieve more. Microsoft Azure zones, it’s difficult to ensure users can reach applications at the edge. brings together everything an To address these challenges, Microsoft and SAP have forged a unique organization needs—related collaboration that accelerates SAP cloud adoption. products, services and third- party applications for a scalable, cost‑effective solution. Solution SAP partners with Microsoft for first-in-market cloud Microsoft-Azure migration solutions Microsoft and SAP have joined forces to simplify and modernize customers’ About Equinix journeys to the cloud. Together, the companies founded Embrace, a program Equinix is the world’s digital dedicated to accelerating customer adoption of SAP HANA and SAP Cloud infrastructure company™. Digital Platform on Microsoft Azure. leaders harness our trusted platform to bring together and SAP customers challenged by limited network resources and legacy interconnect the foundational enterprise network architectures can deploy highly performant and scalable infrastructure that powers their hybrid multicloud architectures on a secure and reliable digital infrastructure. success. Platform Equinix® with Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute and Equinix Fabric™ offers the private interconnection and infrastructure building blocks needed Equinix.com to successfully migrate to an SAP HANA environment with the lowest possible network latency.

Equinix.com Equinix Fabric and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute to SAP HANA and SAP Cloud Platform

Equinix Fabric and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute to SAP HANA and SAP Cloud Platform

Enterprise Office Up to 100G

Enterprise Production Equinix Fiber Cross- Azure SAP Infrastructure Database Fabric™ Connect ExpressRoute Hub VNet Database

Public SAP Central SAP on Azure Internet Services

Equinix, the third partner in SAP cloud migration on Microsoft Azure “This partnership is As a Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform and Azure Networking MSP Program all about reducing member, Equinix hosts public Azure ExpressRoute nodes in 32 metros globally, as well as seven Azure Government Cloud node locations in the U.S., complexity and for a total of 39 deployments worldwide. This outstanding number of Azure © 2021 Equinix 1 minimizing costs for on-ramps via Equinix Fabric™ enables direct and secure connectivity to SAP HANA and the SAP Cloud Platform on Microsoft Azure. customers as they move to SAP HANA Benefits in the cloud. Bringing Fast, low-latency private connection between SAP customers and together the power SAP HANA on Azure of SAP and Microsoft Accelerate hybrid multicloud architecture deployment. Reduce the complexity of migrating on‑premises SAP applications to SAP HANA Cloud provides customers on Azure, as well as to other clouds. Ensure security and resiliency. with the assurance of working with two Speed digital transformation initiatives leveraging a cloud‑adjacent architecture. industry leaders so they Interconnect legacy, on-premises systems like production databases, along can confidently and with backup/disaster recovery/business continuity solutions that function between on-premises and cloud environments to Azure. Extend the use efficiently transition into of legacy systems, while adopting cloud-based services for lower costs, intelligent enterprises.” improved productivity and greater scalability for SAP HANA applications Jennifer Morgan, Co-Chief Executive such as ERP. Officer, SAP Optimized network connection Direct and secure access to SAP HANA on Azure via Equinix Fabric and Azure ExpressRoute accelerates cloud services consumption and provides a greater return on investment (ROI) than legacy on-premises SAP deployments.

Equinix.com Cloud use cases interconnecting SAP and Azure on PlatformCloud use cases Equinix interconnecting SAP and Azure on Platform Equinix Platform Equinix provides private access between all SAP and Microsoft Azure cloud deployment models shown below.

New SAP Deployments

SAP HEC Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Public Cloud

Private Private

SAP HEC share of Private Cloud share of Hybrid Cloud share of Public Cloud share of target locations in 2025 target locations in 2025 target locations in 2025 target locations in 2025 5% 20% 44% 31%

Customers who run SAP in cloud environments use Azure ExpressRoute and Equinix Fabric to leverage hybrid multicloud architectures for SAP ERP and other applications. Accessing SAP on Azure with ExpressRoute and Equinix Fabric eliminates network latency and bandwidth challenges from hybrid deployments and workload migration scenarios. Customers can:

§ Scale secure interconnection to Azure deployments during cloud migration

§ Accelerate digital transformation to a cloud-adjacent architecture, where customers are moving from WAN architecture to SD-WAN while modernizing their SAP landscapes.

§ Increase adoption of cloud services via Azure ExpressRoute enabling faster SAP migrations on Platform Equinix at distributed edge locations.

Equinix increases SAP on Azure adoption due to an extensive Azure ExpressRoute global presence, network optimization expertise and a deep enterprise customer base. SAP on Azure across a global platform delivers the speed, scale and simplicity businesses need from Azure and the consistency and continuity they expect from existing SAP environments.

Equinix.com Azure ExpressRoute is available at Equinix data centers in 32 metros globally.

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VANCOUVER HELSINKI CALGARY OTTAWA STOCKHOLM KAMLOOPS WINNIPEG MONTREAL MANCHESTER OSAKA SEATTLE TOKYO TORONTO SAINT JOHN AMSTERDAM SEOUL DUBLIN CHICAGO LONDON SILICON DENVER SHANGHAI VALLEY BOSTON HAMBURG HONG KONG NEW YORK DÜSSELDORF PHILADELPHIA DALLAS WASHINGTON, D.C. BRUSSELS FRANKFURT LOS ANGELES CULPEPER, VA WARSAW ATLANTA PARIS MUNICH MONTERREY HOUSTON MIAMI GENEVA SINGAPORE MILAN SOFIA MADRID MEXICO CITY ZURICH ISTANBUL BARCELONA SEVILLE

BOGOTÁ LISBON BRISBANE PERTH

Equinix/Azure ADELAIDE SYDNEY ExpressRoute Location DUBAI* MELBOURNE Equinix Location SÃO PAULO ABU DHABI CANBERRA Equinix Fabric™ Location RIO DE JANEIRO MUSCAT Partner Data Center

*Provides connectivity to local clouds within the UAE.

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