SAP Solution: Dell

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to smaller news items as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked.

This sentence is not a leftover carnival joke, but a recommendation from SAP note 2586312 regarding Meltdown, Spectre and Hana. Who knows of an operational Hana server that can be patched and rebooted on the fly?

There are quite a number of existing SAP customers who have had little to do with open source up to now. But without knowing it, they are indirectly using Linux, OpenStack, or Cloud Foundry.

Chris Kaddaras has been appointed vice president and head of EMEA at Nutanix.

Although boards and executives are aware of the great importance of data security, they often do not provide the necessary resources. Security concerns also inhibit the use of mobile devices and public cloud services in companies.

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to smaller news items as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked.

In May, Dell opened its Global SAP Center of Excellence in Walldorf. With the new office and a data center, Dell is flying the flag and responding to increasing demand for its solutions in the SAP market.

Dell has bought storage specialist EMC for $67 billion (59 billion euros). This is the largest corporate purchase in IT history.

Dell wants to buy EMC. If it succeeds, two IT giants will merge. It can't be a takeover in the traditional sense; both companies have too much weight and too many legacy burdens. It may make sense strategically, but it's extremely risky operationally.

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to smaller news items as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked.

Enterprise computing without open source is like a fish without water. In SAP deployment, Linux has established itself as the operating system platform. And as a cloud platform, Openstack is considered mainstream. But what is Openstack all about? Why is Suse pushing the spread of Openstack for enterprise computing? And: How does Openstack relate to SAP?