IDC survey: SAP HANA users say Cisco UCS is the #1 Converged Infrastructure

“Mission Critical” is a term bandied about far too often in our industry.   But in the case of SAP HANA it’s a fair description; if your core business operations backbone is not “mission critical,” what is? That’s why Cisco is excited to be a major sponsor of SAP’s SapphireNow user conference in Orlando this week.  […]

The “just right” tool for the job: Applying the Goldilocks Rule to your SAP Data Center

For any workload, SAP included, most of us would agree selecting the right tool depends on the task you’re performing.     Knowing which tool, or how much capacity or resource to apply is usually defined by your objective.   Great motivators understand this.  Humans become bored if tasks are too easy, but demotivated if tasks are impossible. […]

Accelerate your Business with SAP HANA in the Cloud

Today’s Guest Blog comes to us courtesy of Anthony Brown, Director of Application Cloud Alliances and Program Development at Sungard Availability Services.   Today’s businesses face the challenge of maximizing their agility to meet rapidly changing market opportunities. At the same time, they need a reliable infrastructure for their day-to-day operational workloads. To meet both […]

Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI) For SAP HANA

Tailored Data Center Integration for SAP HANA enables the use
 of enterprise storage and networking components that already exist in your data center rather than requiring customers to purchase additional storage and networking to be used only for the SAP HANA environment. Cisco and its partners deliver a TDI deployment model using a common architectural […]

Cisco Cloud Technology Enables SAP HANA Cloud Offerings

At the start of 2014, SAP identified four corporate priorities: HANA, Cloud, Mobility, and Analytics.  Cisco, in support of these priorities, expanded their partnership with SAP to announce the availability of a Cisco Cloud Reference Architecture for SAP HANA Applications. This architecture, jointly defined between SAP, SAP partners, and Cisco, enables Cisco Partners to launch […]