The Cloud Helpers

http://thecloudhelpers.blogspot.com/

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

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

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)

Happy Thanksgiving

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