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Virtualization Solution for Rapid Deployment in the SAP Center of Excellence

Come and see how the SAP CoE Rapid Prototyping Center use a virtual infrastructure for SAP solutions and share the insights and experience with the architects of that solution. With a virtualized solution on IBM BladeCenter and VMware the 'rapid prototyping center' now offers a highly flexible and cost effective environment. The time to provide new SAP environments on Windows Servers is minimized and gives the flexibility to change the environment within a short time to match customers requirements. This virtualization solution on BladeServer can save money, increase IT staff productivity, and simplify and optimize system resource allocation.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Christoph Reisbeck( VMware,Inc. ), Bernd Herth( SAP AG ), Paul Henter( IBM Corporation )

Paul Henter is a senior managing consultant within IBM Germany. He brings with him a broad range of technical and design skills founded on more than 15 years experience in the IT industry. He has a great deal of practical experience that has been gained through establishing and developing fully managed end-to-end solutions from initial conception to completion. He is currently working in the IBM SAP International Competence Center as an architect building complete end-to-end solutions for SAP environments. His main focus lies on IT optimization and infrastructure virtualization solutions.

Christoph Reisbeck, Director Global SAP Alliances is responsible for the overall SAP Partnership and the SAP Business at VMware's Global Partner Solutions and Marketing organization. Christoph has more than 25 years of IT-industry experiences and more than 12 years in the SAP business. He has held several International management positions at major IT vendors in Business Development, Marketing, Sales and Sales Support.