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Today, VMware announced in a press release that SAP Managed Services, SAP AG's internal IT infrastructure provider, has deployed the VMware platform pervasively across its IT environment as the main virtualization platform for agile and adaptable implementations of SAP solutions.

This announcement follows a keynote that Dr. Krips (Sr. VP at SAP Managed Services) previously delivered at VMworld Cannes, and various presentations on this topic by Markus Winter (Head of Strategic Projects, SAP Managed Services) at VMworld conferences. SAP Managed Services developed a very comprehensive framework utilizing more than 8000 virtual machines with VMware software as its primary platform with the purpose of providing virtualized infrastructure solutions to internal SAP teams and customers.

Read the press release in full!

We are excited to be part of SAP TechEd Phoenix next week. If you're attending the conference this year, come by the VMware booth, no. 705, to meet the VMware SAP team and learn how the advanced features in products from SAP and VMware combine synergistically to create a powerful and sustainable business process automation system. With the introduction of powerful new features in the VMware vSphere product suite earlier this year, there has never been a better time or a better platform for virtualizing SAP solutions. Many SAP customers are already using VMware solutions to achieve cost-effective high availability, true fault tolerance, efficient, simplified disaster recovery, and lower energy consumption.

At TechEd, we've got experts with deep SAP technical expertise ready to explain how you can take virtualized SAP environments to the next level, or simply how to best get started if you are in the process of considering a virtualized SAP architecture. We will also share with you explicit customer cases documenting TCO savings of 50%-80% over three years by migrating to a virtualized SAP landscape!

But to the logistics:

• Booth location: no. 705

• Booth demos: Zero Downtime of SAP Central Services using VMware Fault Tolerance & Efficient, Automated SAP Disaster Recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager

• Speaking Sessions with VMware speakers, contributions, or content:
  • "Virtualizing SAP in a Real-World Environment, an End User Case Study with Intel and VMware Session", Tue, Oct 13th, 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
  • "Implementing SAP Landscapes in a Dynamic Virtual Data Center Using EMC Storage Technology", Wednesday, Oct 14th, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m
  • "SAP Scaling with VMware vSphere and IBM System x", Wednesday, Oct 14th, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
  • "Virtualizing the SAP ecosystem - Using fundamentally better solutions from HP, Novell, SAP and VMware", Thursday, Oct 15th, 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.

Also, there are a lot of very interesting presentations and demonstrations around virtualized SAP deployments by our partners, including SAP, Novell, HP, IBM, EMC, Texperts, and many others!

'Hope to see you there,

• Joachim