SAP
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Are there ways that F5 Networks and SAP can make your SAP operations simpler, more elegant and more automated, with appropriate controls in place to detect abnormalities? With V10, F5 Networks is delivering three things: first, template based configuration support for SAP Enterprise Portal and Web Based SAP ECC Instances (so that a few questions and one submit button perfectly configures your instances). Second, integration with SAP's ASLR (described below) to automatically detect and help configure all available SAP instances (so that your hunt for SAP instance numbers and port numbers during configuration is...
Analyze acquisition costs, maintenance costs, stability, performance, range of functions, high availability, security, configuration complexity, integration into your existing landscape and content caching when deciding between software and hardware load balancing. F5 and SAP have a close and important partnership that involves engineers and business folks working to deliver the best customer experience for any given SAP landscape. One of the questions that comes up over and over is how a company can make the decision between software load balancing and hardware high availability. We recently published a document (that's available by emailing me ) about...
A funny thing happened at the F5 booth during SAP's TechED 2008 last week (6,000+ SAP Developers in Las Vegas, Nevada for the entire week of September 8th, 2008), several groups separately asked me how they should handle the politics of administration and system management: "how do I grow my local traffic management solution, add web acceleration but not give up the control I have with my current software based solution?" It's a great question for me because I'd drafted this post about User Roles and Partitions last month and I didn't know exactly how relevant it...
