Sunday, December 13, 2009

2010 Event Locations Announced:

We are proud to announce the following locations for the 2010 The Cloud Helpers events. We will be adding additional locations in the USA as well is world wide. We are working on securing Hyderabad, India as well as Qingdao China and other European locations such as Germany in late September, London in Early September as well as places like Hawaii in November.

Milwaukee, WI
Chicago/Oak Brook, IL
Minneapolis, MN
Detroit, MI
Indianapolis, IN
Kansas City, MO
Louisville, KY
Nashville, TN
Memphis, TN
St. Louis, MO
DesMoines, IA
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Charlotte, NC
Atlanta, GA
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
Houston, TX
San Antonio, TX
New Orleans, LA
Denver, CO
Albuquerque, NM
Seattle, WA
Portland, OR
Phoenix, AZ
Las Vegas, NV
Sacramento, CA
Orlando, FL Will be in May

We would like to thank our sponsors for supporting our attendees at each location and providing information to assist them in their needs.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

The Cloud Helpers

http://thecloudhelpers.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Great Blog by Sam Bayer

http://blog.b2b2dot0.com/2009/12/sapience-2009-economic-survival-for-sap-shops.html

Great talk track from Sam Bayer of B2B2dot0
Enjoy

Friday, December 4, 2009

SAPience2009 preview

We are heading to SAPience2009 next week...we will be showing how easy it is to have SAP running in our cloud.
It takes 30 minutes to show how to start from scratch and have a new SAP system in a separate cloud in those 30 minutes fully functional production environment.

I am truly excited as you can see :) we have been talking about having SAP in a cloud and SAP has been slamming the cloud as a option. But we say YES, put your non-mission critical SAP solutions in the cloud.


http://www.sapience2009.com/Overview/Overview.cfm

The Open and Independent Conference for SAP Users
For the first time in the US, SAP users, analysts, vendors, and key figureheads who helped to create the ERP market will gather to present and discuss ways to reduce SAP-related costs and find new ways to transition into a new era.


Sapience2009 will take SAP users on a “journey to independence.” Our goal is to foster an atmosphere where users understand how to leverage market alternatives and how to avoid the negative side effects of the one-stop-shopping paradigm.

This conference is unique in several ways:

* it provides an independent perspective that embraces virtually all possibilities outside the original vendor’s scope
* it lets the original authorities who coined this market voice their critical views
* it gets innovative users to explain their novel ideas
* it allows attendees to kick the tires of real alternatives.


Sapience2009 focuses on what has become a buyers’ market. Are you taking advantage of this change? Here’s a chance to speed up this process.

Participate in:

* Thought provoking sessions
* Open discussions
* Debates on the pros and cons of different strategies


Network with peers who share the same challenges and goals.
Learn tactical information you can put into use immediately:

* A Roadmap for Cost Cutting
* Legal Aspects of SAP License and Maintenance Agreements
* Third Party Maintenance
* Second Hand Licenses
* Open Source Strategies for SAP Users
* Cloud Offerings

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Delivering SAP via the cloud

HiLn Announces Cloud-based SAP Cloud's

Extensive creation of SAP Clouds for companies


HILN ANNOUNCES CLOUD BASED SOLUTIONS FOR SAP



Milwaukee, WI.,—October 13, 2009—HiLn, A leader in cloud solutions, today announced the Silver Lining Cloud Solution designed to enable companies to deploy SAP software in the cloud. Whether due to cost, complexity or lack of resources, the vast majority of SAP applications have never been set up in a cloud and have not been tested at normal user volumes, much less for unexpected spikes in traffic. HiLn’s team of technical experts have spent months refining this product for SAP clients.



“To our customers, performance matters!” said Carter, CTO, HiLn. “By utilizing our Silver Lining Cloud Solution” our customers will have the ability to start, stop, reuse or throw away and start anew in 6 minutes for each SAP cloud which only leads to greater levels of reliability ease of consumption and stronger SAP systems.”



“Improving performance cannot be achieved solely by adding hardware,” said Christopher Carter, CTO, HiLn. “SAP applications and deployment stacks are complex and must be tested under real world load conditions to assess what actual performance will be in production. Having a process that ensures systems are tested is an essential element of cloud computing development.” 75% of an SAP landscape can be placed in a cloud with no disruption to the normal day to day business of your production environment.



Delivering SAP via the cloud is a reality and moving your training system or a test system or 75% total can provide your organization the following benefits:



* Provides a low-risk approach to seed cloud solutions into your environment
* Lower TCO in the data center with up to 50% reduction in total system costs
* Sustainability with operational savings of up to 80% while fulfilling “green” initiatives
* Increased ROI through server reallocation and labor reduction/redeployment
* Solution provides access to all SAP applications including ECC6, BI, CRM, PLM, and Solution Manager
* No additional data center, HW, SW or admin hours are needed
* Never refresh an environment again – just throw it away!

SAP cloud computing

Great work...love to see the SAP cloud solutions and that they work well.

in reference to: SAP solutions (view on Google Sidewiki)

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Enabling SAP creation in A SAP cloud

Ok, we all heard the blog's and twits about @vsikka today saying SAP was not a fit for the clouds. But what folks fail to read was that SAP was not ready to put SAP PRODUCTION environments in the cloud. I do not blame him! We tell folks all the time our SAP cloud the "Silver lining" is NOT for production but for the other 75% of your landscape where you do not house mission critical data.

Folks, you read into the info he said deeper and you see just that. Now I too sometimes the flame is out in R&D at SAP, but to be honest I am a geek I love technology and the growth that can come by it, but you need to allow the creativity to fester, let it grow.

So as an SAP firm, we did that. I took the last 5 years of my life and have grown an SAP landscape in clouds...Big beautiful fluffy wonderful clouds! SO I know have over 400 SAP landscapes in clouds and NOT a 1 is a PRD environment. Nada, Zip, Zero Zilch not a 1! Why? The cloud is still too new. If my sandbox, or a training or a development cloud vanishes, nothing hurt. But a production kills my company!

So again, look at it as your taking the non-production solutions and your putting them at your granny's home. You know their safe because granny is kind & sweet and does wonderful things, but that one time she touches it "blam" out goes the light....Well we re-provision a new cloud from storage and less then 30 minutes later were back in business as if nothing was there to slow us down. That's the power for an SAP firm NOT that production is in a cloud. That my fellow SAP geek's is real development power and we at Hiln do it every day for the SAP Eco-system!

Check out an SAP cloud for free at http://WWW.hiln-solutions.com/silverlining

Friday, October 30, 2009


SAP is in the Clouds! Now you can be too...

Join us for a Webinar on November 10

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/675130200

HiLn is proud to showcase the "Silver Lining" SAP Cloud Solution for SAP users. As the first SAP Partner to provide a true SAP solution in the cloud, weve developed a secure and easy to use Cloud which can support a successful strategy for moving your SAP landscape to the cloud.

We want to educate you on cloud computing, provide advantages and capabilities of our solution and demonstrate a successful strategy to implement Cloud solutions in your environment.

Let us show you the "Silver Lining", showcase the strength of Sas70 security and structure, and provide a clear vision of the benefits inside an SAP Cloud.

Join us, won't you?

Title:

SAP is in the Clouds! Now you can be too...

Date:

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Time:

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh-based attendees
Required: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or newer

Friday, October 23, 2009

Check out HiLn’s Silver Lining Cloud Solution for your SAP training environment.

Delivering SAP via the cloud is a reality and moving your training system can provide your organization the following benefits:

  • Provides a low-risk approach to seed cloud solutions into your environment
  • Lower TCO in the data center with up to 50% reduction in total system costs
  • Sustainability with operational savings of up to 80% while fulfilling “green” initiatives
  • Increased ROI through server reallocation and labor reduction/redeployment
  • Solution provides access to all SAP applications including ECC6, BI, CRM, PLM, and Solution Manager
  • No additional data center, HW, SW or admin hours are needed
  • Never refresh an environment again – just throw it away!

Contact HiLn for your FREE 30 Day Trial of our Silver Lining Cloud Solution!

What they are saying about the Silver Lining

The SAP Cloud: A Measured Success

SAP Cloud Computing is a tremendous Opportunity

HiLn Announces Cloud based solutions

Give us a call to discuss how your firm can reach your "Silver Lining"

E-:mail: silverlining@hiln-solutions.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Phone: 262.439.8391

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Cloud Computing for SAP has finally arrived!

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Check out HiLn’s Silver Lining Cloud Solution for your SAP training environment.

Delivering SAP via the cloud is a reality and moving your training system can provide your organization the following benefits:

  • Provides a low-risk approach to seed cloud solutions into your environment
  • Lower TCO in the data center with up to 50% reduction in total system costs
  • Sustainability with operational savings of up to 80% while fulfilling “green” initiatives
  • Increased ROI through server reallocation and labor reduction/redeployment
  • Solution provides access to all SAP applications including ECC6, BI, CRM, PLM, and Solution Manager
  • No additional data center, HW, SW or admin hours are needed
  • Never refresh an environment again – just throw it away!

Contact HiLn for your FREE 30 Day Trial of our Silver Lining Cloud Solution!

What they are saying about the Silver Lining

The SAP Cloud: A Measured Success

SAP Cloud Computing is a tremendous Opportunity

HiLn Announces Cloud based SAP Cloud's

Give us a call to discuss how yor firm can reach your "Silver Lining"

E-:mail: silverlining@hiln-solutions.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Phone: 262.439.8391

Friday, October 9, 2009

Your SAP Silver Lining


Check out HiLn’s Silver Lining Cloud Solution for your SAP training environment.

Delivering SAP via the cloud is a reality and moving your training system can provide your organization the following benefits:

  • Provides a low-risk approach to seed cloud solutions into your environment
  • Lower TCO in the data center with up to 50% reduction in total system costs
  • Sustainability with operational savings of up to 80% while fulfilling “green” initiatives
  • Increased ROI through server reallocation and labor reduction/redeployment
  • Solution provides access to all SAP applications including ECC6, BI, CRM, PLM, and Solution Manager
  • No additional data center, HW, SW or admin hours are needed
  • Never refresh an environment again – just throw it away!

Contact HiLn for your FREE 30 Day Trial of our Silver Lining Cloud Solution!

www.hiln-solutions.com/silverlining

E-:mail: silverlining@hiln-solutions.com Phone: 262.439.8391

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Virtualization and the Cloud

let's look at the direction that virtualization has taken, we have the players so now we need to make some decisions on what we want to make with our solutions. Do we put them into a cloud? Public and private?

Well there is Amazon, rackspace, goGrid, Terremark, etc. We use Terremark and at times gogrid for our enterprise solutions with SAP.
Rackspace for email and web and testing Amazon is being used.

BUT this is only the beginning, there is the solution on the cloud, the organization you are going to use and how your going to run them.

There are cost's associated with each. the most expensive by far is Terramark, and the lowest cost is GoGrid based on our current usage.

Each firm has their own idea on how to get to the core of their usage so be very careful how and who you choose.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Starting over
Well here we are I've bought the assets and now we are moving forward with all our new staff and looking to build a successful future.

We will not be buying any new companies we are going to make mistakes sure but we will not be taking anything for granted I personally am older and wiser, I will not base corp. Decisions on hope, and pissabilitues. I will be looking at my teams around the USA to be leaders.

Friday, July 31, 2009

SAP in the cloud how soon is the reality?


“SAP in the Cloud how soon is the reality?"


Join us for a Webinar on August 18


Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/805726698

How soon is the reality of running your SAP solutions in a "cloud" rather in your data center?

Acclaimed SAP cloud Guru Christopher Carter take's the time to sit down and to discuss the very real movement to your SAP solutions into a cloud.

• Implementing cloud as part of a hybrid strategy that brings value internally and externally will help balance the risks and rewards.
• Once enterprises leverage cloud computing, often cost savings and a richer customer experience are passed along to end users
• In-turn can help your organization exit the downturn with a stronger competitive edge.

Discuss why you need cloud:
• Drives up utilization, drives down internal costs
• Improves flexibility and agility in IT infrastructure
• Benefits the end user, creating a richer customer experience
By taking 18 years of SAP experience and matching it with Virtualization and Cloud applications over the course of his professional career, Chris has come up with some very in-depth SAP Cloud options that he has stated will and are revolutionizing the way companies run SAP Software, as well as to how they can run their businesses more efficiently, securely, and with greater TCO reporting BUT also looking at the pitfalls if not planned or executed properly.

Title: “SAP in the Cloud how soon is the reality?"

Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

Saturday, July 18, 2009

"The strength of security in the cloud is as strong as the server sitting in your office"
That's absolutly true.
Let's look at the facts:
Cloud computing is basically a GUI interface to a backend virtualized group of systems and those servers are secured as they are In your center but the benefits are that the 80% of wasted server usage is now distributed between other users
So here we go we are secure utilized and creating a stronger grouping

Friday, July 10, 2009

Let the best SAP cloud win

So i was talking to (tweeting) with some folks in the sap arena when they started talking about our SAP cloud efforts and the direction SAP seems to be going with their cloud...Ever since they bought coghead and the comments by Leo and their new CTO Sikka seem to be going in two very different directions.

So in steps other 3rd parties and our clouds and our test's on SAP solutions in the cloud....basicaly remember that the cloud is nothing more then a virtual server farm with a GUI front end...so ANY SAP solution we have tested is able to get into and run in the cloud.

We actually have standardized on the AppZero application to get our SAP solutions into the cloud then we have multiple clouds we can run too for deployment.....We have tested SAP solutions and different operating systems, databases versions etc...

Results:
This is not for the 1st timers you need experience, we went through many crash and burn scenerios and even yet after over 100 test deployments we still get a hiccup trying to test new ideas, but the great thing is we can deploy a new "cloud" instance in less then 30 seconds...Try that in your data center!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Sorry blogging off I phone! Sarah palin 2010 presidential candidate! Woo hoo
Sarah palin 2010 presidential vanifate !!!! I volunteer to help!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Stop the support Iran bullshit let's support the USA and our out of work let's support our boarders god sometimes you us citizens are a bunch of tree hugging proud driving liberal wackos support the USA first please!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

SAP Training

Wow what a week we doubled the number of trainees for next week's virtual training classes....all classes are taught by REAL sap trainers from the USA, but you train from home or from your office etc...it has been great..students are loving it as well (thank gosh!) I wanted to assist in education not teaching to and it has and is happening!

Thank you all

http://www.ccierp.com/component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,440/

all classes are 5 days for $1250.00 plus all the extra data we want you to have as CBT's are free to you for joining our classes.

Monday, May 4, 2009

I made it were here at citrus synergy world it's 6:30 am so let the week begin!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Wow what an event I will post more details and presentations from the airports great sessions some great new applications for the sap space very exciting 3 days

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Day in the books at Virtualization week

A good day was had by most i would assume...At least I felt the day was for us. Some lively comments and discussion on twitter and the blog's.

Some interesting news from VMware this morning...the cloud is now open. No way to have that ready for SAP eco-system in the next 1-1.5 years

Thank you all for the fun twitter conversation.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Sapvirtualizationweek2009 is here!
Zia Yusuf is ready to launch the event and the overflow crowd is a buzz. Tomorrow is the Vmware vsphere launch we shall see where the media hangs out for honest answers!
The secondary buzz is how much Oracle paid for Sun!
It is another buy but it will be an interesting merger of talents..I wish my favorite pony tailed CEO well!

Sunday, April 19, 2009

SAP Virtualization week 2009 is here

Here we are in sunny palo Alto, CA. Sunday evening, 87 degrees and the world of virtualization is ready to be showcased in the SAP eco-system.
https://cw.sdn.sap.com/community/esc/cag11

I have been moved to the monday Morning slot at 11:45 am pst following Manfred Buchmann, of SAP.

We came to lookm at the entire 24 speakers and I realized I am the only partner speaking with no corporate motive. I am speaking on behalf of the SAP client.

This should be a unique week for myself, SAP, & the future of SAP's virtualization direction.

We shall keep this blog updated all week via email updates.

Friday, April 10, 2009

SAP Virtualization Week 2009

Good Morning all....It is with great pleasure I promote the SAP Virtualization week 2009

I have the honor to be presenting with some of the big dog's in the industry...Simon Crosby of Citrix, Steve Herrod of VMware, Gunther Schmalzhaf of SAP along with Virtualization Guru's Scott Lowe and Rick Scherer.

For me this is 18 years in the making since my mainframe days and really in the SAP eco-system i believe we are 3 years behind the 8 ball. This event is available on-line as well as was in person but that part is sold out.

My presentation is Tuesday afternoon at 2:15 p.m. pst. Virtualization and Business Agility: How to create a virtual strategy for real success in SAP

I will be focusing on the SAP eco-system, NOT a particular solution because as we know each SAP landscape is unique and one solution can not support them all.

I will be very honest on what we see with our clients in the SAP eco-system, what we tell them, how we plan a virtual strategy, but to give you a peak before we really key on planning! ;)

So please logg into the site, watch all the speakers you wish and lets show how SAP in a virtual environment is a $1.875 Billion savings point!

I also will be blogging everyday from this event and others in the upcoming weeks...VMware has their new product launch on the 21st and I will be a featured speaker at Citrix Synergy as well with 2 presentations and 2 geek speaks....so again i will provide as much detail as possible....send any questions to me directly at ccarter@ccierp.com

Tahnk you all

Friday, March 27, 2009

Welcome to Virtualization of SAP

This blog is here to assit those in the SAP eco-system on the power of Virtualization