SAP Solution: Virtualization

How and where is corporate data stored securely? Already in 2019, a medium-sized company had an unimaginable average of 13.53 petabytes of data to organize. That number keeps going up and up and up.

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to smaller news items as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked.

Many application managers in the SAP environment continue to swear by bare metal as the ultimate for SAP environments. And they would be right if hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) were only about virtualization. But it is about much more.

With Hana 2 SPS4, SAP has introduced another technology: The use of non-volatile memory technologies (non-volatile memory).

Even though many have already arrived in the new year, the question remains as to which IT trends will occupy us in 2020. The magic words are edge computing, blockchain and software-based virtualization.

Cyber espionage is the scourge of the digital economy - and is usually noticed too late. To effectively protect the crown jewels in their SAP systems, existing customers must start with the design of the infrastructure.

Software and performance testing free of license costs using open source resources sounds tempting. But does the whole thing also work under conditions of high scalability?

In a white paper from the beginning of this year, market researchers from IDC asked the question: Who can benefit from SAP Hana and S/4 based on the IBM Power System? In the meantime, there are numerous experiences from existing SAP customers and partners, so the clear answer is: Everyone!

Like so many others, Syntax implemented its first Hana systems as appliances because there was no alternative. This was a challenge, to say the least. For example, we could only order the appliance once the customer had signed the contract—and technically, the customer then owned it.

The CRM system C/4 announced and planned by SAP CEO Bill McDermott is stillborn - unnecessary and expensive. A blunt weapon against Salesforce and others.

Cloud computing is no longer a megastar. A study by Bitkom Research on behalf of KPMG brings sobering findings. Cloud computing is an important IT tool, no less, but also not much more.

For a quarter of a century, the ERP Days have provided an important forum for independent ERP information and exchange between suppliers and users. This time, the event is all about digitalization.