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Cisco was a proud sponsor of SAP SAPPHIRENOW 2011. Learn about Cisco and SAP joint solutions Cisco Unified Computing System, cloud and business intelligence and in-memory technology solutions:
- Speaking Sessions
- Demos & Theater Presentations
- Cisco and SAP
Read about Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Data Center Solution gaining market momentum: Cisco and NetApp Unveil New FlexPod Solution for Use with SAP® Applications for Greater Flexibility and Customer Choice
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Why SAP on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
Cisco Speakers: Rajiv Thomas, CSE and Nathan Crook, SE
Moderated by Rick Speyer, Marketing Manager, Cisco
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The Cisco Unified Computing System serves as an ideal server platform for SAP since it provides a unique Intel Xeon processor -based industry-standard infrastructure for enterprise-critical applications such as SAP. The Cisco UCS platform offers stateless computing capabilities with dynamic server provisioning, unified fabric, and comprehensive management across both physical and virtual environments for reduced total cost of ownership (TCO). The hardware-state abstraction transparently integrates server, storage, and networking resources used for any application, virtualized or not, thus eliminating the waste that can be caused by dedicating pools of resources to a specific purpose. In addition, Cisco UCS Manager makes controlling and reassigning resources fast and easy.
When you combine the UCS platform with Tidal Intelligent Automation software for SAP, you now have a safe, secure, platform that is protected from within the platform itself. As a result the Cisco UCS platform is quickly becoming the server platform of choice for mission-critical solutions from SAP.
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Cisco Speaking Sessions
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Flexpod: a unified, pre-tested and validated shared infrastructure for SAP.
Speaker: Ulrich Kleidon
Date: Monday, May 16, 2011
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Partner Campus.
NetApp, Cisco, and VMware have jointly developed a cloud-ready solution, FlexPod for SAP. The solution simplifies and accelerates SAP lifecycle management tasks and delivers integrated SAP data protection, fast automated SAP system copies, and rapid provisioning of fenced SAP systems or landscapes.
Additional Cisco Conference Speaking Sessions:
Microforum: Accelerating and Simplifying Business Process with Collaboration-Enabled Business Transformation.
Speakers: Jan Lind and Amri Oliveira
Date: Monday, May 16, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
SAP and Cisco Collaboration embed Cisco Communication and Collaboration capabilities into your business fabric to transform business processes and drive quantifiable business value by reducing human latency, enhancing business agility and driving operational efficiencies. The SAP application, Business Process Management and WebDynPro screens integrate Cisco collaboration.
Eco-system Panel: Imagining Business in 2015
panelist insertion of Cisco Executive - Ed Bugnion, CTO
Date: Monday, May 16, 2011
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Reflecting on Sapphire's Wednesday theme of technology that allows innovation to happen now and how that technology prepares you for what the future might bring, this panel interview brings together visionary leaders from two of SAP's most strategic technology partners to discuss the critical role technology plays now in helping their customers to Run Better and build competitive advantage. Ed Bugnion, VP and CTO of Cisco and Steve Schuckenbrock, President of Dell Services will discuss how both companies are innovating around leading-edge technologies such as in-memory and cloud computing, and providing customers with greater organizational adaptability, superior decision-making and more profitable operations through Sustainability.
Cisco and SAP, enterprise vision, why customers choose Cisco for SAP.
Speaker: Michael Missbach
Date: Wednesday, May 18
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
A new model for IT operational efficiency is needed as rapid growth with virtualized and converged infrastructures are supplanting the traditional operational towers, tools, and processes. While the CAPEX cost savings gained through the convergence of virtualization, networking, compute, storage and management technologies into "virtual building blocks" are well understood. The OPEX efficiencies to be gained through such an approach not only exceed the CAPEX savings achieved through greater utilization of physical assets, they enable virtualization on an even larger scale. Learn how the combination of Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) with Intelligent Automation and SAP's ERP4IT are instrumental in helping IT organizations realize the OPEX savings by shifting the operation of infrastructure and SAP applications to the new model of end-to-end run book automation.
Demonstrations and Theater Presentations
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- Cisco Tidal Intelligent Automation
- Cisco Business Intelligence Appliance
- FlexPod
- HANA
- Cisco Unified Computing System Manager
- Mobility
- Collaboration
We hope you were able to join us in the Cisco in-booth theater. If you missed a presentation, or would like to view it again, please download it below:
Cisco and SAP
The Cisco and SAP technology alliance enables a globally connected real-time borderless enterprise that accelerates innovation. The relationship provides a foundation on which you can transform your business. It addresses multiple solutions such as governance and risk, service-oriented architecture (SOA), unified computing, and application networking.
Together, Cisco and SAP deliver the data center of the future today .
PRESS RELEASE: Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Data Center Solution gaining market momentum: Cisco and NetApp Unveil New FlexPod Solution for Use with SAP® Applications for Greater Flexibility and Customer Choice
Introducing the SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA)
SAP HANA is the next generation of SAP's in-memory computing technology. SAP HANA is a multi-purpose, data-source agnostic, in-memory appliance that combines SAP software components optimized on hardware provided, and delivered, by SAP's leading hardware partners.
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