The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Last year, SAP emerged “guns blazing” with the announcement of a new four-pronged strategy, the acquisition of Sybase and an intensified focus on mobility.  The company continued to build momentum at SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week 2011, which took place April 12-14 at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. For an overview of the event, read “Recap: Virtualization and Cloud Week” on SAP.info.

The partners that comprise the vibrant SAP ecosystem were out in full force at SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week 2011. Among the sponsors this year was CapGemini. In this interview taped at the close of this year’s event, Chris Kernaghan, senior SAP NetWeaver consultant with CapGemini, gives the partner perspective of virtualization and cloud. (more…)

Minutes before the start of the final day of SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week 2011, Joseph Zeinoun, SAP Mentor and Solution Architect at Raytheon, shared his key takeaways from Kaj van de Loo’s keynote and offered up his very clearly articulated views on the role of virtualization and cloud computing.  A third-time participant at this annual event, Joseph clearly gets great value from attending.  This year, he wanted to learn more about SAP’s strategy in this space. “Kaj’s keynote on Tuesday answered a lot of those questions,” he said. As the event draws to a close, Joseph can already share some key learnings.

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Vitaliy Rudnytskiy, SAP Mentor and Lead BI Architect, Enterprise Information Solutions at Hewlett-Packard, is attending SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week for the first time. His enthusiasm was evident, as was his view on the role these new technologies play within an enterprise as large as that of HP:  “It’s important for every organization and every customer.”

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SAP has put a definitive stake in the ground with its efforts to bring virtualization and cloud technologies to its customers and partners. But these efforts aren’t limited to customers and partners. Rather, SAP is also aiming to bring these technologies to one of the largest IT infrastructures in the world – its own. (more…)

In this short video recorded at SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week, Markus Winter, Product Manager for SAP’s Virtualization and Cloud Management product unit, took a few minutes to share  his impressions of the event following his presentation entitled “Virtualization and Cloud at SAP: How SAP Walks the Talk.” (more…)

SAP Virtualization & Cloud Week kicked off today with a keynote from Kaj van de Loo, SVP of Technology Strategy at SAP, entitled “Cloud Computing for the Enterprise.” With the sun streaming into the conference room at the Palo Alto campus, Kaj didn’t mince words when he told the 200-strong crowd: “Old business models are going away, and new ones are picking up pace.” Likening the current state of the technology industry to SAP’s R/3 days in the 1990s, he noted that SAP is now at an inflection point. (more…)

Shortly after his keynote at SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week, Kaj van de Loo, senior vice president of Technology Strategy at SAP, shared some additional views on the twinned topics of virtualization and cloud management, which are at the core of this week’s event.   (more…)

How can cloud computing change the look of tomorrow’s datacenters? How can virtualization and cloud computing help reduce the CO₂ footprint? What can be learned from customers that have implemented virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies? Answers to these and other questions will be given by SAP and its experts, partners and customers at the upcoming SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week, taking place at SAP Labs in Palo Alto from April 12-14, with an online platform available to attend sessions virtually.

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• Watch the video of Bernhard Schulzki, program lead for virtualization and cloud management at SAP, as he makes the case for virtualization by outlining the tools and services SAP is developing which will make it easier for customers to run SAP systems in the cloud
• Read the interview with Bernhard Schulzki, in which he explains how SAP is helping its customers to become faster, more flexible, and more efficient by using private clouds

Is cloud computing an evolution or a revolution? Or maybe both? In an interview with SAP Spectrum, Mark White, chief technology officer for Deloitte Consulting, and his deputy William Briggs, discuss why cloud computing is the next giant step in IT – and how it will revolutionize business models.

As a lead IT principal on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security account team, the topic of data security is always top of White’s mind. On that point, he relates a fascinating insight courtesy of the CTO of NASA, who also has something to say about the cloud. Intrigued? Read the interview.