{"id":2537,"date":"2016-10-01T00:33:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T22:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2019-04-01T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T07:23:48","slug":"hyperconverged-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/hyperconverged-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperconverged Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, there was successful consolidation, harmonization, virtualization and automation. But ultimately, the old IT concepts have had their day. What the existing SAP customer needs is an agile, scalable, highly automated <span id=\"urn:enhancement-f487300e-3555-9990-08dd-5eaefef2c57a\" class=\"textannotation\">IT-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-vbmbg3kh1ga9kfxqpk1f840wqfnn0svu\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span><\/span>in which it retains air sovereignty: A hyperconverged infrastructure from Lenovo and Nutanix is the answer.<\/p>\n<p>For a location determination in the digital transformation and in search of the best possible <span id=\"urn:enhancement-23c8d6f6-3fc1-2920-e52b-0321f345b3d1\" class=\"textannotation\">IT-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-g5gd8zzt9b9iclvdypdflmgmtawryz6r\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span><\/span> Roland Goll, Jannes Driesch (both Lenovo), Alexander Thoma, Bas Raayman (both Nutanix) and Carlo Velten from Crisp Research met in Stuttgart at the end of August.<\/p><div id=\"great-641996822\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ZGXMPyM-nU\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"banner_26-04_29_1200x150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Representatives from Lenovo and Nutanix joined the analyst to discuss the status and options of an existing SAP customer seeking to master digital transformation while maintaining the IT<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-98hugzru9d8rv19mywky9bs1uwp1t927\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Budget<\/span> must consolidate.<\/p>\n<p>The consensus was that it was necessary to respond quickly and efficiently to new markets and business requirements, but that this agility was unlikely to be achieved with legacy IT tools and a traditional on-premise client\/server environment.<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-mln2tkbk1urys07h7b43cmybum8ytdpi\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Server<\/span>-architecture will have to be mastered.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, a general <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-l8y71slcxup6g7uauuitblnsr1u6tsan\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Cloud computing<\/span> not solve the challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Roland Goll, Manager Solution Sales SAP Sales Central at Lenovo, quickly put it in a nutshell:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"In any case, the existing SAP customer must retain air sovereignty.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Analyst Carlo Velten, CEO at Crisp Research, also emphasizes this strategy, which is obviously vital for SAP's existing customers:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"You always have to retain a degree of independence in all transformations - with your own SAP-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-oikqxsuh9rr3eoonh4emjm5pirj7hunw\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">License<\/span> and also about the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-ru2j7nj6x4t3ei8uh593a632jw55wa76\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is therefore important to maintain sovereignty not only over the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-d228aae1-8a1f-92ba-eafd-c1d8d875870f\" class=\"textannotation\">IT-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-45rzvwwylghbnnw16mqgvrygcnenx69c\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span><\/span>but also about the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-mld58gxkxprf9javwezmov8f4d4gaamg\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data<\/span> to preserve: Where are the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-4oczdtz892s66eq2yzp9fwh9ediqb7dx\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data<\/span> stored and who can process them.<\/p>\n<p>Carlo Velten strongly emphasizes the value of the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-c9hxnfe0bvmnsph5hic1rn6cnyldwdn2\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data<\/span> and their <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-99jeg0ocsy5b9pgs19ocvay22tbfdjmj\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Availability<\/span>. For SAP applications in particular, data management and controlled <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-9pk9erpc5g6auugyb4y2iptga5w8kvji\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">IT infrastructure<\/span> more important than general mobile and cloud solutions.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, during the Lenovo\/Nutanix call, the analyst points to the path taken by Amazon, Google and other web giants:<\/p>\n<p>These companies have their own <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-72r5mflg8lhmzhxj1y24lk8iesvq80so\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Hardware<\/span>-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-vbk9zklue3eo6tetdi59fouosud3lxmu\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span> completely automated with software. They have built their own hyperconverged infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"Hyperconverged is the path to completely automated <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-qd0cfz1sgkr3ilb5r5g9624jr29uo63r\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">IT infrastructure<\/span>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>defines Carlo Velten.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, neither the digital transformation nor the necessary agility and scaling will be achieved with the old IT structures. But even the cloud can only be a solution to a limited extent if the existing SAP customer follows the SAP roadmap but, as Roland Goll from Lenovo emphasizes in conversation, should retain air sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>A hyperconverged infrastructure that not only supports its own <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-gip9fx9gsirw5r8uspyxqkk7b6jiej5m\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data<\/span> at <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-zrds932m6i7h07ha8f6jqinztzi3f4pj\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data center<\/span> but can also connect productively with cloud services seems to be the logical answer here.<\/p>\n<h3>Flexible, agile and bimodal planning work<\/h3>\n<p>For the person responsible for SAP <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-0jymfg2z0r1z64gufgzi4bpzskk38cpx\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CIO<\/span> it is becoming increasingly difficult to make validated forecasts about the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-010335b7-3ba0-4c7b-04c7-97a1d62c57f5\" class=\"textannotation\">IT-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-3rehxfghx2fwnsetxt43xc17utzv3nkd\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span><\/span> and thus also to create sustainable budget plans.<\/p>\n<p>Bimodal and agile IT as well as business processes that have to comply with the digital transformation make the planning work difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Today, more than ever, flexibility and scalability are required. Alexander Thoma, Senior Solutions and Performance Engineer at Nutanix, is convinced that the classic <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-oyuugsyby81eqaiuonr8pe4cb138pfxr\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">IT infrastructure<\/span>-lifecycle based on the three-tier SAP client\/server model has become obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Thoma, senior solutions and performance engineer at Nutanix:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"People kept trying to make IT forecasts for three to five years, which worked in very few cases\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\"Only a hyperconverged infrastructure brings the necessary flexibility to the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-00woayrqtxzqngr9siu5y2shyjbstk1x\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data center<\/span> and enables adequate modernization during ongoing operations.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His colleague Bas Raayman of Nutanix adds:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"I stay current with a hyperconverged infrastructure. You can always add new <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-2w1s7d9w2vw0s4s9ldue0fcdydf1hp31\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Technology<\/span> bring in economically.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This also has an impact on the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-mzuaiali8mxg0bf79dyrwqcvfjra4jeu\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Budget<\/span>as Thoma and Raayman jointly emphasize. Because you can bring in new components at any time, you pay as a <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-gsapdc6qrady8rxkd00f8g5wzhj8ynvd\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">User<\/span> ultimately only when you really need the new resources.<\/p>\n<p>Jannes Driesch, HyperConverged Sales Account Manager at Lenovo, therefore also sees a rethink with regard to IT budget planning.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-zk8i54u4mjsceq1ff6xzifdusjbub9om\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Scalability<\/span> decides<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Based on the specific history of the SAP community, the path to the cloud seems feasible, but a much more logical approach is obviously a hyperconverged infrastructure that supports the company's own <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-rhs1i4i4q2351tsdlgzdawepfvmiuhid\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data center<\/span> or the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-e6uf4ogmwuqx0m5h2bxoxpqj8it91i1i\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Managed Services<\/span> can connect to optional cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>For Roland Goll, the advantage of this hybrid, bimodal technology lies in the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-yi5rwjt6ry9q8gbc303mnps1312qycmq\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Scalability<\/span>, or as he explained it:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"With Lenovo and Nutanix-.<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-18tx9qqc3you9n5y1zui1p4uc03ylbds\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Technology<\/span> the SAP inventory customer can build breathing systems.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This flexibility for upsizing and downsizing seems particularly appealing and also necessary due to the dynamic markets.<\/p>\n<p>The panel agreed that in any case, the existing SAP customer should retain its personal air sovereignty for licenses and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Jannes Driesch from Lenovo thus emphasizes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"Getting started with hyperconverged infrastructure is also easy and highly recommended because scaling is very easy, flexibility is very high.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You start small, maybe not with the production system right away, and continue to breathe, grow, scale.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The IT paradigm<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Roland Goll raised the question of whether the Lenovo\/Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure represents an evolution, a new paradigm or a revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Goll confirmed the insight made at the beginning that the SAP community has done its homework: They have consolidated, harmonized, automated and virtualized.<\/p>\n<p>Roland Goll:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"But for that homework, in the past, you've got <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-4j1u0jhlw1hc1c8qslxtqom0s6shkcw3\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Storage<\/span>, network and <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-oqfuadbps8sur7e9i4znn2x57icbqnqw\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Server<\/span> considered individually. The current added value is that CPU, memory, and <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-gjd2gh6axa9vey4pgei8aenb23ldcnqd\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Storage<\/span> now form a single entity and you only have to manage this central, consolidated entity.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And this opens up new opportunities for all SAP<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-mj63d08cv4ik35xm7rxuwiolibrahwjt\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">User<\/span> the great opportunity for a next qualitative step after consolidation, harmonization and automation.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperconverged Infrastructure can preserve the experience and lessons learned from the past and add scalability and agility.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>New claims<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Bas Raayman of Nutanix explains why:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"The services, how we consume IT power, have changed a lot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>An example here can be Hana. I consume the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-wazqb2gryq98ltraho15s7sxrpdcjko4\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data<\/span>I prepare them at the moment when I really need them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, it was impressively demonstrated that any information can be used again as a starting point for new calculations, and that in <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-vtqlsxzaswx3i0kdin050r4905fqs1uj\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Real-time<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This has changed the entire database architecture. The demand to be able to react immediately and to get information is omnipresent - thus, at the base, the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-pvmub07pqen2pynk07m2ljwghu8j1r9m\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Technology<\/span> Change.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For end users, perhaps less will change, as consumers are used to real-time communications on their personal smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the challenges lie in the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-ld3lq7xchdi6hqzuxa87ctq373g3uplb\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Business processes<\/span>. Here we need a new <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-d783fn9vqql3r0e7thr31unk31n30q3c\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">IT architecture<\/span> for the SAP roadmap, which does not equate to an unopposed path to the cloud.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why change?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Alexander Thoma sees the necessary changes, in the Lenovo\/Nutanix conversation he thus asks the rhetorical question: Why did these changes occur?<\/p>\n<p>Why have existing SAP customers started to virtualize?<\/p>\n<p>\"It's about improving the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-0c78jjkz84pl38r3vq2a2j3myffv99pt\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Availability<\/span>\", is his answer to the round. Digital transformation also means a 24\u00d77<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-06gddaue5ztbt107xifw2ai4rkglytoe\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Availability<\/span> in the global markets. This agile, dynamic and flexible 24\u00d77 concept comes at the price of a significant increase in IT complexity.<\/p>\n<p>A traditional SAP client\/<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-m816c1zqv4qg5h2ztyewqcskmj63ilzk\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Server<\/span>-Keeping an R\/3 architecture online around the clock, 365 days a year, is no trivial task. The classic R\/3<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-lqzfirsaweqqs1bcx238s2v7fpmsqwk1\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span> from <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-c9bwb0melgnhmxfivshu1l4yyyutvgju\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Server<\/span>, storage and network was not prepared for such requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The \"new\" complexity is something many are struggling with, confirms both Lenovo and Nutanix.<\/p>\n<p>Thoma:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"That's why the hyperconverged infrastructure evolved. With it, we reduce the complexity on the surface for the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-xj1xoqzeasiiyu9ygmiyaq42dziyouqf\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CIO<\/span> massive and with less complexity there are fewer <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-6kz72nu6snlykaaori0e5idzqnrb0yjw\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Risk<\/span>. Little <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-u5jg8pdc9hpasnu5qu4ldvqdugd5ty96\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Risk<\/span> is always good.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nutanix also sees its solution offered with Lenovo as an invisible enterprise cloud platform.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The logical step<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Looking at the past successful years of the SAP community, the further development towards hyperconverged infrastructure seems to be the logical next step.<\/p>\n<p>Many existing SAP customers have always relied on their own data center or managed services for technical, organizational and business reasons. A great deal of knowledge and experience has been gained here, which now needs to be put to good use. That sounds like evolution.<\/p>\n<p>But the analyst warns.<\/p>\n<p>Carlo Velten, Crisp Research:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"Against the backdrop of digitalization, we are seeing a reorientation of management at companies. Even the market leaders here in Germany recognize that you have to become faster and more agile.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And then you have to realize that your own <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-k1dwev5j4lz38is29elsr7ut3ys4qofe\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Business processes<\/span>, the own <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-sq57px3jpqyepqeefkomp20asrrutil8\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span> and even IT can't keep up with this change.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Complex past<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The current SAP state is based on the paradigms of ten to fifteen years ago. The <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-jhtfii00zx5v4lfjw5shvujap7eimsam\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">ERP<\/span>\/ECC 6.0 architecture is complex and multi-layered and with many <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-apssyyyutpaly50up1bu7diwulr1oqop\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Technologies<\/span> of different providers. This makes the current architecture technically and organizationally complex.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"This complexity is in contrast to the current challenges, such as new, agile <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-3fzb8905xij3yvdd5rv10a139o5xc95m\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Business processes<\/span>, new digital processes, new products are to be introduced\".<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Velten explains.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"What we've learned to date is that it's not done with a few workshops on design thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because when it really gets serious about digital transformation, you need <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-ah6lu3xx2nu12utrat30m0uygq2r3625\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data<\/span> from the large back-end systems - i.e. <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-49vatdmb4vhh9tk430f0nhvac14ywfjf\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data<\/span> from the SAP systems.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Datability &amp; Big Data<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Datability was rightly a big theme at CeBIT, and Big Data still is.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes the point where the person responsible for SAP, with regard to his or her <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-0zwglafhocyiapw98f4a8xbmjw8hregl\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span> should account for, and Carlo Velten asks the question:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"Is this base designed to meet current requirements?\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The analyst answers for all the same himself:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"In many cases, the SAP-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-cr6ywmlkrlnebyczd6k07akev6tps9kg\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span> not be able to be correspondingly agile, fast and in <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-6x3n6f20dupvcqfc67bcujdy3aaj4fff\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Real-time<\/span> to react. And when I see it as <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-2abk8nw83f4lrzyxsndoeczfxbncjgdk\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CIO<\/span> maybe can't do it myself or know how to do it, then maybe I outsource the SAP operation.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-lnmz7nyu0hjpcnpvrdel581mpn89u76j\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Managed Services<\/span> or <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-6wnba5vr9b99kj8zsbunmbyhdpq2bd8o\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Cloud computing<\/span> must be the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-2v263c120tsg0wy5rogeqamo58ixx3bi\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CIO<\/span> then no longer ask many questions regarding agility. But what is important are the requirements imposed by the business side and the question of whether my current <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-3ne3i0ei0jwoc2q2n4pm69vdjzwkulni\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">ERP<\/span>-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-qf04kdjmqmvba42demh1rm0m2yn3g9na\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span> can meet these requirements, the analyst points out.<\/p>\n<p>Carlo Velten explains it this way: \"Many managing directors think they don't need to be interested in IT.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"We need to work with our <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-9nn2ys9d29hcgk0bq7a5v3konkotjdjq\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Business processes<\/span> act quickly and IT comes after\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>is an often-heard answer.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure on infrastructure managers is immensely high because these current SAP systems represent an enormous cost block, Velten knows from his research.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Orientation in infrastructure and licenses<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>For Roland Goll of Lenovo, the trick is to know where and when to start the transformation. So where do you start with a hyperconverged infrastructure?<\/p>\n<p>Bas Raayman of Nutanix confirms:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"One clearly observes that SAP's existing customers are looking for orientation - in terms of <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-7jnd5xkqn5rr1kjpadp2nb3hyssf0s5n\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span>, <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-44mffpe0ls8gxogkr0qm9oep1sqcdgmt\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Licenses<\/span> etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Not to maybe change anything right away, but what do I need in two years, what challenges will there be then? Of course, you then fall back on proven providers like Lenovo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But what is the future strategy of the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-up1juonbr2kf0f4lrt9wrhnjkwxu1vg4\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Customers<\/span> off?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So we are already working on what will be current in two years and what the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-iao2x7wb79td836vcm9z6ph39p12mzfk\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">User<\/span> then wants to do. But it's difficult to really assess what will happen in two years' time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The hyperconverged approach is a new learning offering to the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-rhsgdr15hoauqsi4c5wzshg9oxg2s9fm\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Customers<\/span>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>SAP Roadmap<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>However, Carlo Velten points out: \"The challenge is not only to find your own path for the next two or ten years, but also to take into account what SAP is planning.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"So you have to deal with two dimensions\".<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Velten explains.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"SAP is making a clear statement here: Cloud is the strategy. Cloud means scalable, flexible, fast deployment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The SAP manager must therefore ask himself: What does my management want? What does SAP want?\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hyperconverged Infrastructure and <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-29k7fvdcnjbrftivoqphmg3uuqkglgo2\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Cloud computing<\/span> are therefore two concepts for coping with the future requirements of a digital transformation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interesting:<\/strong> Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Lenovo and Nutanix delivers the same expectation that an SAP sets with its cloud strategy - but in its own <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-doto8cu1uge98mvm646emo5vubcnzcri\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data center<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>AP goes to the cloud<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The analyst sees the future ahead:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"SAP is moving in the direction of the cloud. So in two years at the latest, IT managers will have to prove that they can work with their own <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-t7qpkzgim6f0zdkv9p0yssak1u4hrukd\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">IT architecture<\/span> provides the same performance and agility as SAP with its cloud model. The <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-hffq368wx0f7digvehde3223uzkjkybg\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CIO<\/span> Is competing with SAP Cloud.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, Carlo Velten's summary is that the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-nwj6onrevudw4dsy756mxfvbu4aqp3x4\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CIO<\/span> In the future, a hyperconverged infrastructure should provide SAP services as if they were coming from the SAP Cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Thoma and Bas Raayman confirm together: The bottom line is that you are looking for certain qualities.<\/p>\n<p>I'm less interested in where it runs - at SAP, at Amazon, in a mixed operation. \"My application has to run,\" Raayman demands.<\/p>\n<p>Invisible Infrastructure is also what the experts at Nutanix call it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"Which is not to say that I don't have <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-tpvwjscikdb8ge881waf65jo6p8lecid\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Hardware<\/span> have\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thoma adds.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"I need a <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-s2n6glfbx8ewhns5if54uic9yums33a6\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Hardware<\/span>that enables the new concepts, which is definitely the case with Lenovo. The structure must have certain characteristics - as flexible, secure and agile as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I choose a platform that delivers these features, this is where collaborations like Lenovo and Nutanix are a key concept.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Cost pressure &amp; workloads<\/h3>\n<p>The SAP responsible <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-97l4atvw7ra99wausemlvoxn9y5wg0i5\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CIO<\/span> must therefore think about what I can do as a <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-l3onx2ux3cnw1tw2bd4bjehb7u3na58o\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CIO<\/span> to the outside world, says Roland Goll of Lenovo.<\/p>\n<p>There is just considerable cost pressure with regard to the various cloud models.<\/p>\n<p>But what is true for the SAP world?<\/p>\n<p>Bas Raayman of Nutanix:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"Of course, you have to have confidence in cloud technology.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bimodal also means positioning innovative solutions on the outside, but acting relatively conservatively on the inside. A combination of cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure seems appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"But start now,\" Raayman cautions in the Lenovo\/Nutanix conversation. Alexander Thoma specifies once again:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\"Workloads are moving to the cloud because of rapid deployment. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform reduces complexity and also brings rapid deployment.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Nutanix alternative: all the benefits of the cloud, but in the controlled environment of your own data center or <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-cjcecct729laiu69g3q43qxy575bnyh2\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Managed Services<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Thoma defines that Nutanix's enterprise cloud platform with flexibility can always be a mix of on-premise and on-demand, which is why the platform idea is so important.<\/p>\n<p>Roland Goll also sees a current focus on IT agility and that IT costs do not continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"But where is my core competency?\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>he asks the group. Does it lie in the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-22ef1517-8f25-a556-5c64-ec98e396af80\" class=\"textannotation\">IT-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-5aarx0p40dwq8mzm60d8hc5z25hlv6zi\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span><\/span>? Goll's answer:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"Freeing up resources to improve the SAP system!\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carlo Velten also recommends reducing complexity at the grassroots level through automation, because much of the complexity is tied up in the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-wzs03do36ipigc9dm5sv6b6d1mvfqzp8\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\"We're still swimming in money at the moment,\" the analyst says with a wink, but the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-4m1e3jxkzooddz8yec7i69o39jm7xqw5\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span>-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-suj4wuaw9vhvq31symij4709gnm25wjx\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Budgets<\/span> burden the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-6pimehkn6w50zct3oniznt6k6le4iji7\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CIO<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\"Prepare for economic downturn,\" is therefore the recommendation of the Crisp Research analyst.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Plan the future anew<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The SAP responsible <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-9ff1ymghg0wqjr890lhn2mcn7lm71k6o\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CIO<\/span> must prepare for a wave of cost savings. The pressure on SAP systems will increase.<\/p>\n<p>Complementing this, Bas Raayman opines:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"The complexity may not decrease, but you have to reorganize and administer it in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Necessary planning and logic will not disappear, but it shall be made invisible.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Thoma of Nutanix sees the opportunity for new resource planning through the hyperconverged infrastructure paradigm.<\/p>\n<p>For this there are for the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-l8wiyy90todhbash3lsnj385e8uitp7e\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CIO<\/span> with Lenovo and Nutanix, we have a unique partner, emphasizes Jannes Driesch. For the combination of hyperconverged infrastructure and <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-ohn0sg3spgqsj1zpsyx3m6saywt44w6n\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Cloud computing<\/span> having only one contact person is a validated reduction of complexity.<\/p>\n<p>Roland Goll:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-08o2cbrxnwtbss8142nmew93gxol7e0w\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Infrastructure<\/span> has to work, that's the job of Nutanix and Lenovo. As a result, we make complexity invisible.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And Nutanix colleague Alexander Thoma adds at this point:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"We're making it easier for people to own a <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-darwtt9pv37442svr5rxystogiveqwby\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data center<\/span> to operate without cost disadvantages compared to outsourcers and cloud technology.\"<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussing hyperconverged infrastructure and platforms were Alexander Thoma of Nutanix, Roland Goll and Jannes Driesch of Lenovo, and analyst Carlo Velten of Crisp Research and Bas Raayman of Nutanix.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[711,704],"tags":[710,623,5786,210,707,647,618,709,236],"coauthors":[27825],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coverstory-0816","category-mag1610","tag-agil","tag-amazon","tag-automatisiert","tag-big-data","tag-coverstory","tag-google","tag-kunde","tag-roadmap","tag-sap","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",1000,667,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",400,267,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",1000,667,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-100x67.jpg",100,67,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-480x320.jpg",480,320,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-640x427.jpg",640,427,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-720x480.jpg",720,480,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-960x640.jpg",960,640,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",1000,667,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",1000,667,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",1000,667,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",1000,667,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",1000,667,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",18,12,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",1000,667,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",1000,667,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",1000,667,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",600,400,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged.jpg",600,400,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hyperconverged-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>\u00dcber hyperconverged Infrastructure und Plattformen diskutierten Alexander Thoma von Nutanix, Roland Goll und Jannes Driesch von Lenovo sowie Analyst Carlo Velten von Crisp Research und Bas Raayman von Nutanix.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/cover-stories\/coverstory-0816\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Coverstory 16-10<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/likes1610\/\" rel=\"category tag\">MAG 16-10<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Peter M. 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