DSAG Technology Days 2018: Was that something? Quiet or fireworks?

The atmosphere was good and there was intensive discussion because there are numerous construction sites. Apart from one small inconsistency, DSAG Chief Technology Officer Ralf Peters was able to fulfill SAP's expectations in anticipation of the event.

At the end of his keynote speech, the moderator asked Mr. Peters for his summary and most urgent wish. "Peace and quiet," he said, "to devote myself conscientiously to the important tasks".

He was followed on stage by SAP CTO Björn Goerke, who naturally did not respect this wish and thus had exactly the opposite effect: a loud firework display of hundreds of SAP declarations of intent.

All in all, the "Technology Days" were a perfect miss of topics, neither the security mega-GAU Meltdown and Spectre with its effects on the Hana database, nor the important technology topic "AnyDB" for S/4 and the released CPU utilization for Hana were topics during the keynotes (whether these topics were covered in the DSAG presentations and on the second working day could not be evaluated because analysts and journalists do not have access to these important sources of information according to the decision of SAP and DSAG).

In particular, the new upper limits on CPU utilization for Hana were the talk of the day during the breaks, as this means that server providers are suffering significant losses in revenue, while users can finally make sensible use of the on-premise hardware they have purchased.

Of course, we asked Björn Goerke for a statement on Meltdown and Spectre with regard to Hana after his DSAG keynote (because there is hardly anything to be found on the SAP service marketplace).

He responded to our question with an evasive answer: He would not be responsible for this! Even when asked who else, if not him, could say something about the effects on Hana, SAP CTO Goerke refused to accept this. Nevertheless, we have exclusive answers for our readers directly from Suse, to be read in the E-3 Magazine March on pages 68 and 69.