Shared cloud to bare-metal. EUR 58,200 saved.
A manufacturing client with operations in multiple African countries was running their SAP HANA production environment on a major shared public cloud. Costs were spiraling, performance was inconsistent due to 'noisy neighbors,' and the lack of a structured disaster recovery protocol created a major business continuity risk.
We migrated their entire SAP landscape onto dedicated, high-performance bare-metal hardware. This eliminated the virtualization overhead and provided direct access to the underlying storage and compute resources, tailored specifically for the high memory demands of HANA.
We also implemented a live, asynchronous replication cycle between their primary site and a secondary disaster recovery node, ensuring that their critical data was always redundant and accessible within minutes of a failure.
Total five-year cost dropped from approximately EUR 60,000 to EUR 95,000 on shared cloud to EUR 19,000 per year on dedicated infrastructure. Query performance improved 2-5x. Month-end reporting that previously took hours now completes in minutes. Disaster recovery is included — it wasn't before.
What changed, what risk was removed, and where to go next.
SAP HANA ran on expensive shared cloud with performance and continuity constraints.
Dedicated bare-metal infrastructure reduced five-year cost and improved SAP operating discipline.
Unclear SAP hosting ownership and untested resilience path.
Turn this result into a scoped conversation.
Cloud is not always cheaper. For SAP HANA workloads above a certain threshold, dedicated bare-metal is significantly more cost-effective — and more performant. Most businesses don't evaluate this because their cloud provider has no incentive to suggest it. 912 is vendor-neutral — we recommend the architecture that costs you less.