As Broadcom’s new licensing models fundamentally shift the cost landscape for virtualization, SAP leaders are facing a critical inflection point: absorb unprecedented infrastructure price hikes or find a certified path to independence. 

This session provides a strategic roadmap for reclaiming your IT budget by migrating mission-critical SAP workloads—including SAP HANA—to SUSE’s KVM-based virtualization. We will move beyond the hype to examine the technical architecture and financial logic of an open-source, SAP-certified hypervisor. 

Learn how to eliminate "vTax" while maintaining the extreme high availability and performance required for enterprise-scale SAP landscapes.

Key takeaways:

• The Economics of Exit: Break down the TCO of moving from per-core VMware licensing to a SUSE-integrated KVM environment, often delivering 50% or more in infrastructure software savings.

• Beyond the Hypervisor: Understand why SUSE KVM is a Tier-1 choice for SAP HANA, featuring built-in, SAP-tailored High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) that meets rigorous enterprise SLAs.

• Strategic Consolidation: Discover the operational benefits of a "Single Vendor Stack." Reduce support silos and management friction by aligning your hypervisor with the Linux distribution preferred by over 70% of SAP customers.