How can SAP applications be optimized for a virtualized environment? How do you integrate third-party virtualization technology with SAP? How do you achieve business agility via virtualization?
In this podcast, a former SearchSAP.com editor speaks with virtualization expert Christopher Carter, who discusses why virtualization is important to SAP customers, and digs into strategic issues related to virtualization in SAP environments. Carter discusses how virtualization technologies work together in SAP environments, and explains which virtualization solutions are the least expensive and quickest to deploy. Find out how much hardware can be eliminated due to virtualization, and how virtualization drives down the total cost of owning SAP.
Carter is president and CEO of CCI, a provider of software consulting services for companies running SAP ERP software.
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Learn about specific strategic issues pertinent to virtualization in SAP environments, why virtualization is important for SAP customers.
00:25 -- What are the software options for virtualization in an SAP environment?
2:45 -- What factors should you consider when deciding on a virtualization vendor?
5:00 -- How do Citrix and VMware virtual server solutions compare?
8:15 -- What is the potential for cost savings? What scenarios can an enterprise expect?
11:45 -- About 86% of hardware is still not virtualized. Why aren't more users deploying virtualization to reduce TCO?
14:20 -- Once a company decides to go ahead with virtualizing their SAP infrastructure, what's their next step?
16:20 -- Will enterprise application companies such as SAP or Oracle try to take over some of the functions of virtualization by acquiring a vendor?
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