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Customer Perspective: Virtualization for Business-Critical SAP on SQL Server

Sep 19, 2008

60 minutes

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Event Details

  • Featured Speakers

    Brian Fitzgerald - Manager of Technical Services - Forest City Enterprise

    Juergen Thomas - SAP Program Manager, Microsoft

    Michael Vizard - SVP, Editorial Director - Ziff Davis Enterprise

    Todd Behrbaum - Senior Product Manager - HP PolyServe Software

    As business units demand faster and richer access to SAP data and information, IT departments have amassed large infrastructures to meet those needs. Facing strong pressure to cut costs, IT has turned to virtualization software to decrease their server count. Virtual machines (VMs) have been used to effectively virtualize SAP applications and components such as BW, XI, ERP, Solution Manager and Portal; however, IT departments have shied away from using VMs for their SQL Server database tier because of degraded server performance and supportability issues.

    HP takes a different approach to virtualization in the database tier. HP software virtualizes the connections between servers and storage creating a shared pool of resources, and is a flexible and highly available platform for consolidating SQL Server infrastructure. There is no degradation in performance and management is streamlined making this an ideal solution for mission-critical SQL Server databases running SAP applications.

    Attend this webcast to learn how Brian Fitzgerald, manager of technical services at Forest City Enterprises, consolidated his company's SQL Servers in order to provide high availability and scalability for SAP applications while dramatically reducing costs. Juergen Thomas, SAP program manager at Microsoft, will also provide insight on why business-critical SAP SQL Server deployments are leveraging HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server to achieve an Always-On infrastructure.

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