Cisco has entered the mission-critical application business

As you have probably noticed, the Cisco and SAP partnership keeps growing – Here is some of the recent news

[] Unisys, RealTech and others install SAP HANA on Cisco UCS

” Manufacturers are struggling with the provisioning of applications into the infrastructure” In this video, Joachim Weide, Director Transformation Services, Unisys talks about SAP HANA on Cisco UCS and explains how the unique capability of UCS helps to run complex SAP landscapes in a virtualized environment .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33e1sMMAYOE&feature=youtu.be

[] Cisco SAP Competency Center Expansion

Recently Cisco expanded its SAP Competency Center in Walldorf Germany to an entire floor in the SAP Partner Port. As part of that expansion, Cisco invited customers and partners to that expansion and offered a customer led workshop while there. Over 200 customers and partners attended this coming out party for Cisco in Walldorf.

This opening also provided an opportunity to gain some valuable insight from these customers and partners, including SAP, about their decision to install SAP HANA on Cisco UCS.

In this video , SAP VP Kevin Chew shares with Jim Mc Hugh, Cisco VP UCS Marketing the importance of the partnership with Cisco for SAP customers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWeyZeLzhqg

[] SAP HANA on Cisco UCS

During the opening , Jim McHugh had also a conversation with the head of the Cisco SAP Competency Center Dr Michael Missbach, about the services that Cisco can offer to customers

In this video Dr Missbach talked about the “secured shared network implementation ” of HANA , a new and unique feature provided by the Cisco UCS environment , which allows customers to run several solutions on one UCS platform .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuYUlC4XUeQ

[] Cisco Executive Vice President Sales and Development Rob Lloyd and SAP

In the recent SAP Field Kick-Off Meetings in Singapore, Barcelona, and Las Vegas, SAP had three main focus areas: SAP HANA, Cloud, and Simplicity. Cisco’s Rob Lloyd was featured in that keynote citing Cisco’s #1 position as a cloud company and their #2 position worldwide for blade servers.

Watch Rob Llyod here

Cisco continues to advance their position as a mission-critical server platform and is quickly becoming the preferred server platform for SAP