By Jeff Kyle, VP and General Manager, HPE Mission Critical Solutions
2018 SAPPHIRE NOW is less than a week away, and HPE will be there in force! Joining with business leaders and IT professionals to discuss where they want to go with SAP and how we can help them get there is tremendous. Drawing more than 20,000 SAP customers, itโs an extraordinary yearly event.
Whatโs buzzing?
Recent milestones surrounding SAP HANA and HPE will generate a variety of conversations with customers new to their HANA journey, and with HANA veterans eager to expand.
Our new HPE Superdome Flex became the only Intel Skylake-based server certified for up to 16 sockets and 12 TB of memory for scale-up or scale-out workloads, and set records for all phases of the SAPยฎ BW Edition for SAP HANAยฎ standard application benchmark Version 2.
Gartner has released their much anticipated SAP HANA Hardware report. Itโs enlightening and a must-read. HPE is #1 in systems deployed by a wide margin, having shipped more systems than the next three vendors combined. And if thereโs any doubt IBM Power still struggles to gain ground on x86 for SAP HANA, the numbers confirm it (and which Power partners recognize...). The report will be available soon on HPE.com. Let us know at the conference if you would like a copy.
New HPE offerings for SAP HANA
No resting on our laurels, however, as we will introduce three new offerings in the HPE exhibit area.
- Adaptive Management Service for SAP. Coming this summer, HPE Pointnext will offer an on-premise service to manage the entire SAP stack spanning operating system, SAP HANA or conventional 3rd party databases, and SAP applications, running on HPE infrastructure. (VALUE statement - Pointnext positioning, customers save, gain...)
- Factory Express for SAP Tailored Datacenter Infrastructure. To simplify and further streamline SAP TDI deployments, minimize business disruption, and accelerate time to results, HPEโs breakthrough Superdome Flex server can arrive from our factory with the operating system and SAP HANA pre-installed and tested.
- SAP Business One powered by SAP HANA. To better address the needs of SMB customers and further equip HPE channel partners, HPE now offers SAP Business One powered by SAP HANA on the two-socket HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 server. Certified by SAP and delivered as an appliance with a choice of memory size ranging from 96GB to 1.5TB, approximately 13TB of internal storage, and pre-installed with the SUSE or RHEL operating system and SAP HANA.
You donโt want to miss this
HPE is both a solution partner (29 years!) and a large customer of SAP. In fact one of the largest footprints of SAP software is across HPE. HPE ITโs migration journey to SAP HANA began in 2015 with two major Business Warehouse implementations and now progressing to S/4HANA.
On Thursday, June 7 from 1:00 - 01:20 pm, Dave Carlisle, IT CTO for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, will join Randy Meyer, General Manager of HPE Synergy and Mission Critical Solutions, to share HPEโs journey and keys to a successful HANA migration. The session is titled โHPE ITโs migration journey to SAP HANAโ.
Immediately following from 1:30 โ 1:50 pm, Dave will join Tom Bradicich, VP and GM, IoT and Converged Edge Systems at HPE, to describe how HPEโs first-of-a-kind Edgeline Converged Edge Systems are delivering performance, control and cost benefits at the edge for SAP customers. The session is titled: โHPE Edgeline Edge-to-Cloud solutions for SAP Leonardo.โ
Or this! Another strong lineup in the HPE Theater
The theater within the HPE exhibit area is famous for quick, informative presentations, large crowds, and high energy. This year wonโt disappoint as HPE customers, partners, and subject matter experts (including HPE Mission Critical Solutions of course!) will deliver 40+ sessions over the three-day exhibit period. Check the daily schedule for topics of interest and grab a seat early.
Additionally, there will be an Interactive Display that provides a deep dive into all aspects of our portfolio, as well as our Virtual Rack. Our SMES also will be demonstrating GreenLake for HANA, MCS offerings and an IoT demo in support of SAP Leonardo. And when each day comes to an end, there will a Hybrid Hour (our version of Happy Hour) in the booth! A chance to unwind for conversation, learn a little more about our Hybrid IT narrative, and enjoy some beverages.
Hope to see you at SAPPHIRE!
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