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Transform your SAP Landscapes: Vblock™ Systems for SAP from VCE

Brian Sturgis SAP Solutions Specialist, VCE

SAPPHIRE - May 14-16, 2013

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Infrastructure Innovation Competitive Advantage

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System Mgmt

Virtualization

Storage

Network

Compute

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The Ever-Changing SAP Landscape

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SYSTEM 720

SYSTEM 100

SYSTEM 200

SYSTEM 320

SPECIALIZED SYSTEM

FOR SAP HANA

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• R - Reduce TCO •  I - Improve Service Levels • M - Minimize Risk

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Receive Components

Stage Rack & Cable

Traditionally

Program & Provision

With VCE

90 to 120+ Days Only 45 Days

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Category TCO Reduction HW Investment Costs Up to 19% Implementation Costs Up to 32% Ongoing Project Costs Up to 25% Upgrade Costs Up to 36%

Aggregate Expectation 12-14 % TCO Reduction

Source: 3rd Party TCO benchmarking study conducted by VMS AG

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• 5X FASTER speed to deployment • 4X LESS staff time to deploy

• 83X BETTER availability • 3X LOWER cost per user

Source: IDC White Paper, April 2012, Case Studies of 5 VCE customers

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Dedicated, Vertical Stacks

Old World – Physical

Apps Dev

New World – Virtual

Dynamic Pools of Compute & Storage

Apps Dev

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 Policies to meet business SLAs  Templates for repeatability and compliance  Tools to enable quick SAP provisioning

“We reduced our provisioning time from 6 weeks to 2 days!” ~ SAP on Vblock customer presenting at SAP TechEd 2012

Run SAP Landscapes Like

Never Before

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• Backup & Recovery

• Replication & DR

• Business Continuity & Workload Mobility

VCE Release Compatibility Matrix

2x/Year

Value-Added Products

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•  SAP Global Technology Partner •  Certified for SAP NetWeaver and Business Suite

•  Certified for HANA

•  Co-innovating with SAP

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•  Single contract for support and warranty

•  Seamless support experience

•  Three tiers of support

•  24 x 7 follow-the-sun access

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Thank you.