Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

IT consultancy Atos Origin reports successful consolidation of email and VoIP for its global help desk across five continents in just five weeks, using SAP Business Communications Management software. The company is now running on unified communications and says it is getting the highest standards of resilience and reliability – delivering flexible, cost-efficient and streamlined services for manufacturing users from its service centres in France, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Sao Paolo and Tenerife. Mick Hassall, vice president of global managed operations at Atos Origin, explains that the company was facing a range of challenges mostly due to diverse local infrastructures and proprietary technologies. More news here.

So what is this TES? Tidal Software offers the easiest-to-use enterprise job scheduler – Tidal Enterprise Scheduler™ - for completely automating even the most complex batch processing across the complete enterprise. Customers consistently cite Tidal’s enterprise job scheduling software’s ease-of-use, support for complex heterogeneous environments and flexibility as reasons for selecting Tidal. Tidal's job scheduling software has dramatically improved the performance of a wide range of systems for customers such as: order management, business intelligence, customer reporting, and more. Tidal Software, a leading provider of application scheduling and performance management software, today announced the availability of Tidal Enterprise Scheduler 5.3.1. The release extends the 5.3 version of this popular job scheduler with support for the latest versions of enterprise systems and applications from Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and VMWare. Support for these latest versions further simplifies ...

SAP is making a clear statement to Oracle... SAP AG will begin supporting its enterprise software, including its family of ERP applications, on VMware Inc.'s virtualization platform. The business software vendor is certifying 64-bit versions of its Netweaver ERP software as well as its CRM applications to run in Windows or Linux-based virtual machines created by VMware Infrastructure, according to Parag Patel, vice president for alliances at VMware. Eligible hardware includes servers from Dell Inc., Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM. "This is a very clean support statement," Patel said. "You can run SAP in development, you can run it in production, you can run it on several operating systems. In other words, no caveats." SAP has more than 40,000 customers, and VMware has 25,000. Patel said he didn't know the exact number of customers already running SAP on VMware, but added he "wouldn't be surprised" if it was in the hundreds or thou...

SAP AG, the world's largest maker of business-management software, agreed to buy Business Objects SA for more than 4.8 billion euros ($6.8 billion), the biggest purchase in its 35-year history. SAP will offer 42 euros in cash for each Business Objects share, 20 percent more than the closing price on Oct. 5 in Paris, SAP said in a statement late yesterday. Business Objects, based in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, is the world's largest maker of software to track corporate databases. Oracle was rumored to have taken a look at it but for some reasons it wasn't bought back then. A great win for SAP! Link

Chuck Hollis talks about EMC's information infrastructure for SAP. We’re using VMware’s Lab Manager as the basis for building very cost-efficient (and flexible) development environments that do far more with less investment than the old models people used to use. Yes, it’s saving money, but what it’s really saving is time – developers can pop virtual machines on demand, save them, archive them – with no time being spent to set up and tear down hardware and storage. Read on...