During the exciting atmosphere at
35,000 attendees, customers, and partners were encouraged to accelerate customer engagement, "simplify everything and do anything". IoE and Big Data factored into many breakouts and vendor presentations to show how real time information and analytics can enable efficiency, effectiveness, and business transformation.
The need for fast IT was apparent given the strategic investments SAP HANA customers are making in software and infrastructure to obtain real time analytics, meet regulatory compliance, and run multiple Development, Test, and Productions streams.
I presented our solution on application centric converged infrastructure for SAP HANA which accelerates application deployment and simplifies operations through application centric policy.
This includes:
Among the regulated industry SAP customers, data sovereignty and privacy concerns is a major factor leading to application requirements and changes.
Listen to Miguel Moreira, CEO Portugal Telecom Cloud & Data Centers, talk about working with SAP and Cisco to "deliver highly secure services that meet, exactly, governance requirements while lowering the costs dramatically" to his customers. How? With ACI.
For more information see:
VCE Demo of Policy-Based Management on SAP
SAP and Cisco Automate Deployment with Application Centric Infrastructure