SAP

July 1, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco ISE and SAP Afaria: Be productive on and off the Network

1 min read

Reduce the barriers to mobile productivity while making sure the corporate network is secure. Impossible? Seems like it. But that’s what the business continues to demand. SAP Afaria support for Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a key component of policies based on conditionality that attempts to negotiate the gap between employees who want to […]

May 21, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco recognized as a bona fide server platform for SAP HANA by Vishal Sikka at SAP Sapphire

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Over the past three years, Cisco has vaulted from the not only the leader in the networking industry, but they have become the number two blade vendor in the US and number three world-wide. This has caused some pause on the part of the top platform vendors in the industry. Cisco is now making an […]

May 7, 2013

DATA CENTER

What is Cisco and SAP doing together?

2 min read

3 years ago Cisco entered the server platform market with the Unified Computing System (UCS). This server platform was built from the ground up for virtualization and immediately started making an impact and gaining market share. Today it holds the number 2 position worldwide for blades. At this same time Cisco began to deepen its […]

May 6, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco and SAP inaugurate Co-Innovation Labs in both Singapore and Shanghai

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Over 200 attendees were present for the opening of two different Co-Innovate Labs (COIL) recently. The COIL is charged with accelerating co-innovation within the SAP partner ecosystem. This lab is part of the company’s global R&D network and it offers a hands-on environment for SAP, partners and customers to work together on current and future […]

April 18, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco continues to invest in SAP providing amazing results

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Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) server platform continues to make significant strides in becoming a major player in the mission-critical application space, in this case SAP. UCS just claimed a fantastic benchmark using the UCS B200 on SAP Sybase ASE. Since UCS was built from the ground up for virtualization, not only will its virtues […]

April 2, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Delivers the best 2-socket Virtualized SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark result in a Linux environment

2 min read

On March 19th, 2013 Cisco announced the best 2-socket virtualized SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark result in a Linux environment with the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) delivering high scalability and low latency in virtualized SAP Business Suite deployments. Cisco’s benchmark result for the Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server show support for […]

March 12, 2013

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Social Media Is Like Gelato In A Cone #CiscoSMT #SocialSavvy

3 min read

Last week I spoke at an event and the definition of social media came up. Some people refer to social networking tools when they speak of social media while others refer to the notion of engagement and content on the web. I’m more of a “gelato in a cone” kinda gal. I view social media as […]

February 25, 2013

SECURITY

Judge for yourself: Taking Dell to task on “holistic” security claims

In case you missed it, Network World’s Ellen Messmer published a rather surprising article on how Dell was going to “trump” Cisco in the information security market as a result of some recent acquisitions. Now certainly Dell is entitled to their beliefs. They’re in a difficult position right now, as Michael Dell and Silver Lake […]

December 11, 2012

NETWORKING

Cisco WAAS 5.0 Achieves SAP-Certified Integration with SAP NetWeaver®

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Today, I am pleased to share the news that Cisco WAAS 5.0 has been certified by SAP for integration with the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform 7.0.  Cisco WAAS 5.0  on the Cisco WAVE-594 appliance has been tested for performance preservation, secure encrypted communication, reliability, and functional correctness with SAP NetWeaver 7.0.  The WAN bandwidth utilization […]