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The essential selection – key SAP sessions at HP Discover 2012

phil.mclean| May 22, 2012 - last edited May 24, 2012
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It’s part three of our series on the top Converged Systems sessions to see at HP Discover 2012.

 

This time we’re talking SAP and as we’re hot on the heels of some great announcements about SAP HANA performance benchmarks and our latest customer wins, you can be sure there’s some excellent content at the show.

 

If you’re registered please mark these sessions down in your calendar. If you’re not registered then there are still places available, so don’t miss out.

 

Journey to the Cloud for SAP landscapes

 

Timing – 6th June 17:15

 

Location – BB2863

 

Description - According to a recent study by the Aberdeen Group, fewer than one-third of SAP environments are virtualized today. Customers are reluctant to move away from physical deployments as they are unsure of ROI and the impact on performance and resources. Learn how HP has enabled a large global manufacturer to transform their SAP landscapes from a classic, dedicated physical deployment across multiple vendors to a consolidated on-premise private cloud for SAP ERP environment using HP CloudSystem Matrix. Understand how this customer recognized up to 50 percent savings in infrastructure costs by moving to a cloud-enabled x86 platform. This session will explore additional solution elements beyond this customer case and will help you build your SAP cloud landscape today with HP CloudSystem.

 

Learn from the experts: accelerating SAP HANA in your environment

 

Timing – 7th June 10:00

 

Location - RT2864

 

Description - SAP HANA is a game-changing technology for customers that have an SAP application environment. HP is the leading infrastructure partner for SAP as well as a leading SAP HANA provider with nearly 100 deliveries to date. Leveraging HP Converged Infrastructure, HP delivers mission-critical support, share-nothing scalable performance and a balanced compute platform.

In this panel session, you will meet the experts and learn what it takes to build an integrated hardware/software solution, how to take advantage of the related services offerings, hear from customers who have blazed the trail as early adopters and hear from SI partners that are building an ecosystem of application use cases around HP and SAP HANA. If you are running SAP in your environment, this session is a must attend.

 

Under the hood of HP AppSystem for SAP HANA

 

Timing – 5th June 16:00

 

Location - TB2719

 

Description - HP and SAP have over 20 years joint experience delivering industry-leading business intelligence and transactional solutions. This partnership reached a new milestone with SAP HANA; now mission-critical database and analytic deployments can be made on HP AppSystem for SAP HANA. Join this session to learn more about HP’s offering for SAP HANA. Learn how customers can deploy high-availability backup recovery and disaster tolerance with confidence. HP’s new scale-out solution based on BL680 BladeSystem servers and HP IBRIX X9300/P6500 storage delivers a scalable solution that meets today’s customer needs with investment protection for future data growth and database capabilities. You will also get a sneak preview of the HP solution architecture, performance benchmarking and future roadmap on SAP HANA.

 

HANA-powered SAP NetWeaver BW—What does it mean for you?

Timing – June 5th 11:15

 

Location - BB2474

 

Description - Recently SAP(R) announced that the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) application will run on the SAP HANA(TM) in-memory database platform. What does this mean for you? Will this technology fundamentally change your company’s business processes? Understand how the Capgemini and HP partnership ensures the success of your SAP NetWeaver BW on HANA implementation. This session will help you understand the business impacts of moving to SAP NetWeaver BW running on HANA, the technical impact of a HANA-powered SAP NetWeaver BW application, the prerequisites and strategy to embark on SAP NetWeaver BW powered by HANA solution. the solution lifecycle from HP and how it benefits your HANA deployment.

 

HP Serviceguard cluster solutions for SAP on Linux

 

Timing – June 7th 16:00

 

Location - TB3105

 

Description - Learn how the new HP Serviceguard extensions for SAP on Linux SGeSAP/LX simplify the creation of complex SAP cluster landscapes and build a foundation for flawless change management to minimize planned and unplanned downtime. This session includes an overview of the SGeSAP/LX product roadmap and describes clustering features for SAP landscapes, including the cluster-awareness library, dynamic cluster verification and easy package deployment.

 

In-memory analytics with SAP HANA

 

Location – DT3050

 

Description - SAP HANA is revolutionizing traditional business landscapes and delivering benefits to real-world applications today. Experience for yourself how HP and SAP are assisting utility, banking and retail customers with their data analytics needs.

 

 

If you’re attending Discover why not let us know which sessions you’re going to see in the comments section below.

 

If you’re not registered yet please click on the link below for a discounted price.

 

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