Cloud Computing: SAP and VMware Head for the Future Together

Grazed from NYTimes. Author: Quentin Hardy.

The big incumbents in enterprise computing are doing a lot of keeping up with the times this month. In the latest example, SAP AG of Germany, the world’s second-largest maker of business software, announced Tuesday that it was teaming with VMware, a maker of virtualization software, to offer both SAP software and its fast data analysis tool, Hana, as a cloud-based service.

Instead of buying separate software packages and running them on dedicated servers, in other words, customers should be able to load their data and analyze it at a much lower cost, with a greater operational flexibility. Previous announcements from Oracle and EMC underline a move to new business models involving cloud computing and fast analysis of lots of data…

“We want to lower the costs to customers and bring them operational simplicity,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, the head of business development at SAP. The company has 3200 business customers using Hana, he said, and 1000 customers who run their business operations software on top of Hana, enabling near real-time awareness of things like supply chain operations and financial performance…

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