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SAP Carbon Impact in the Amazon cloud elicits a range of opinions
What SAP’s decision to run Carbon Impact on Amazon’s EC2 cloud means for the future of the company’s on-demand strategy depends on whether you ask analysts, users or company officials. News | 25 Oct 2010
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Understanding and using SAP data archiving tools
A number of vendors offer data archiving solutions that can be incorporated into existing SAP implementations. Learn more about using SAP data archiving tools, and what role Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) plays in an SAP data archiving enviro... News | 28 May 2010
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Manufacturers hesitant to switch to virtual ERP
Manufacturers are reluctant to virtualize their mission-critical ERP applications. There are good reasons for hesitance about virtual ERP, especially for medium-sized global manufacturers. Article | 11 Nov 2009
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Best practices for SAP virtualization
Virtualizing your SAP environment can be complicated. Before starting an SAP virtualization project, be sure to consider factors such as licensing agreements, support contracts and adding new system monitoring applications. Article | 10 Nov 2009
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Building data center from scratch meant running SAP virtual servers was easy decision
Even if there are no hard ROI numbers from a SAP virtual server deployment, estimated savings are usually substantial enough to justify moving more applications to virtual servers. Article | 20 Oct 2009
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Infrastructure assessment is prerequisite to running SAP virtual servers
Before committing to run SAP virtual servers, IT managers should conduct a full system hardware and software assessment up-front to determine how much of their SAP infrastructure they can virtualize. Article | 19 Oct 2009
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Mission-critical SAP software demands a mission-critical hardware infrastructure
What role does hardware play in an SAP infrastructure? SAP software application performance depends on a well-managed, quality hardware infrastructure. Servers, processing speed, storage and memory are the linchpins of the SAP enterprise hardware inf... Article | 21 Sep 2009
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Running a virtualized SAP environment: Can your hardware handle it?
Many firms virtualizing an SAP environment should first see if their existing hardware and available memory are sufficient or if they need to bring in new, more powerful servers. Article | 26 Aug 2009
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SAP infrastructure changes to databases, servers yield quick returns
Making SAP infrastructure changes, including changing databases, putting in blade servers and virtualizing SAP applications, could result in savings in less than a year. Article | 25 Aug 2009
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Infrastructure planning key to avoiding SAP virtualization problems
SAP virtualization support calls are likely to be long and boring. Here are some tips on how to avoid them. Article | 17 Apr 2009