Virtualizing SAP BusinessObjects BI 4

Last year I wrote a quick article about Virtualization support for BusinessObjects. Since that time, SAP has been doing a lot of testing and refinement to guidelines regarding virtualizing your BI 4 environment. Originally only advertised to a handful of attendees at Sapphire the www.sap.com/bivirtualization link has had over 1,000 views per month. This is the official guidance […]

Sizing Up HANA

HANA is here, so I wanted to take a minute a field a few common questions about HANA licensing. The software stack comes with the hardware provided by the hardware partners, whereas the license has to be obtained from SAP.  SAP HANA is sold in 64GB units.  Although the product is non-discountable, it does come […]