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ASUG Virtualization Influence Council

C12 — SAP Cloud Computing Security Strategy: Challenges, Solutions, and Directions
Cloud computing is transforming a large part of IT industry by making software more attractive as a service and changing the way IT hardware is designed and purchased. It also has significant implications for the privacy of personal information as well as for the confidentiality of business information. Most of the cloud computing vendors aim to achieve security for their solutions by implementing traditional security mechanisms and processes. Unfortunately, less attention has been paid to discussions about the application of advanced security technologies for cloud applications and how software vendors should change their way of developing secure systems and software for cloud environments. In this presentation we will give an overview of cloud computing security challenges and discuss how SAP is experimenting with cutting-edge technologies (attribute-based encryption, attack surface measurement, etc.) to address some of these challenges. We will then talk about future directions and planned activities.

Yuecel Karabulut, SAP

Suresh Ramakrishnan, SAP

G03 — Green That Matters: Innovative Data Center Design Can Reduce Costs and Improve Efficiency
This presentation covers useful, real-world techniques to achieve increased energy efficiency and reduced power consumption through the design and deployment of a virtualized data center infrastructure. By implementing innovative solutions like high-density disk drives, thin provisioning, and de-duplication, companies around the world can embrace practices that reduce their own storage footprint and lower their overall energy costs. Additionally, the speaker will challenge the audience to re-think old data center power and cooling assumptions by implementing low-tech, eco-friendly solutions like vinyl curtains, air economizers and smart data center design hot/cold aisle placement. In the trenches examples of how end users can capitalize on server and storage virtualization, consolidation and smart data center design to improve IT efficiency and productivity will be provided.

David Robbins, NetApp

C17 — Leveraging Virtualization and the Cloud For SAP's CRM Rapid Deployment Edition
The SAP CRM Rapid Deployment Edition is being launched in SAP Americas to drive revenue, market share and user adoption, while leveraging virtualization and cloud computing as key enablers. This program builds on two years and scores of successes using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and virtualization technologies for the SAP CRM Test Drive program to SAP Top 100 and Global 300 customers. The combined operational effectiveness of IaaS, the cloud and virtualization technologies is bolstered by the SAP CRM Consulting expertise delivering 60-day implementations, leapfrogging competitive SaaS and other offerings available in the market. Xtium will also discuss how open, standards-based virtualization technology leverages rapid and cost-effective provisioning and operations of SAP CRM RDE environments, offering higher levels of service at a fraction of the legacy costs, while enabling hassle free on- and off-premise choice and transition.

Peter Ritz, Xtium

Jim Whalen, EMC

V15 — Manage SAP Systems in Virtual and Physical Landscapes with Adaptive Computing Virtualization
The Adaptive Computing Controller optimizes operation and management of SAP systems on virtual and physical server technology. With the newest available release SAP NetWeaver Adaptive Computing Controller 7.2 provides a interface to integrate virtualization technology provided by SAP Technology Partners. This session provides information about current functionalities of the Adaptive Computing Controller via several live demos, the current development state of the next release and about future planning and concepts regarding virtualization and cloud technology. Features include support of Hypervisor-based virtualization solutions by SAP Partners,  live migration of virtualized resources, soft shutdown of virtual resources, relocation of SAP instances across physical and virtual servers,  automatic landscape detection,  safe and reliable mass operations supported by a scheduling function, and constant live monitoring of physical and virtual servers.

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C10 — Business Service Management – Putting a Business Lens on IT
Technical and organizational advances in business applications and resources respectively are doing what virtualization has done for computer hardware: Giving it the flexibility to maximize its usefulness. To turn this flexibility into a true business benefit, we have to avoid what in many cases was the result of hardware virtualization: The uncontrolled growth of virtual machines caused by a lack of oversight and management!

This highlights the importance of BSM. It provides necessary IT oversight and management by aligning supply (IT resources) to demand (business priorities) following commercial principles. Especially these commercial principles will drive maximization of IT business contribution and will move us closer to managing IT like a business.

The presentation will explain the need for BSM, what BSM is, how it relates to Virtualization and why many CIOs consider BSM to be the future of IT Management. Learn how process and priorities must be integrated in order for BSM to be successful.

CO2 — Hey, You, Get Off Of My Cloud: Security and Compliance in the Cloud-based Data Center
Cloud computing is quickly evolving from avant-garde theory to mainstream deployment. But companies contemplating the move to cloud-based infrastructure often cite security and compliance as the main objections to greenlighting the transition. Virtualization does indeed impact many areas of security and compliance. Examples of such issues include the elimination of separation of duties and the lack of visibility into the virtual network. This talk will describe what gaps are introduced in the move from physical to cloud specifically where security and compliance is concerned, and prescribe specific steps to ensure security and compliance for production deployments. Regulatory areas to be addressed include FISMA, DIACAP, PCI, HIPAA and SOX/GLBA. Specific topics to be covered include:

• An analysis of the new cloud threat surface and what new policies should be introduced to prevent, detect and control risks and violations.
• Implementation of multi-tenancy and its protection in cloud deployments
• Recommend strategies for updating in-house security and compliance best-practices guides to incorporate and protect cloud infrastructure.
• Configuration of the virtual network for security and visibility
• Enforcement of separation of duties, least privilege and change management in the virtual data center (currently not part of most virtualization platforms).
• How you can guarantee your cloud implementation is even more secure than your pre-cloud analogue.

G05 — SAP Power Benchmarks - SAP Standard Application Benchmarks with a Sustainability Edge
When making hardware and software choices, customers today use a much more discriminating and sustainability-oriented set of criteria as compared to only a couple of years ago. In view of the fact that Information and Communication Technology is contributing to the emission of greenhouse gases almost to the same extend as global aviation and with consumer demand for transparency of carbon emissions, SAP is tackling this issue from various angles. In a step towards sustainable software development, SAP has developed a set of power efficiency benchmarks. Defined in cooperation with technology partners, the SAP power benchmarks:

• Act as the basis for standardized power measurements of SAP workloads
  
• Enable both SAP and SAP’s hardware vendors to power optimize their technologies for SAP workload, while engaging in active and transparent cooperation (and competition)
  
• Complement the existing, performance-oriented SAP standard application benchmarks

The SAP power benchmarks are part of SAP’s sustainability roadmap (see "Green IT") and benefit customers and partners, as well as SAP development. An outline of the benchmarks will be given, including their load profile, measurement methodology, power efficiency indicator, etc. The session will show how customers will be able to track the power consumption and the corresponding SAP throughput at different load levels, as well as determine the power consumption of different system components and of different technologies.

CO1 — Deploying SAP Applications on the Amazon Web Services Cloud
Join Amazon Web Services and SAP for a presentation on early experiences in deploying SAP on the AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Jamie Kinney from Amazon Web Services and Narayan Sundareswaran from SAP will provide a brief overview of the AWS cloud computing services and describe their initial experiences deploying and operating SAP on the Amazon cloud platform.

Jamie Kinney, Amazon

Narayan Sundareswaran, SAP