The Customer Magazine 3|2010
The Joy of Cirque
From its modest beginnings in a remote town in northern Québec to Broadway and Vegas, Cirque du Soleil has rocketed to international acclaim as one of the most innovative global entertainment businesses.
Turning Challanges into Opportunities
Emerging economies need strong government leadership to drive socioeconomic development. According to Dr. Philemon Mjwara, director general of South Africa's Department of Science and Technology (DST), there is significant evidence that information and communication technology (ICT) can stimulate this process.
The New Digital Wonderland
Web 2.0 is already passé, at least in comparison to the impending Internet of Things and Internet of Services. These phenomena will radically change the business world and our everyday lives - including providing new opportunities for growth.
20.05.2009
Consolidation Through Virtualization
By: Stephan De Maria
Reduce costs, increase flexibility: A series of solutions from SAP partner Fujitsu are helping companies achieve flexible, cost-effective, and quickly implementable IT.
Reduce costs, increase flexibility – that’s what companies will always want their IT to achieve. Of course the current global economic crisis has made such demands more urgent, but there is no need for despair: Sensible concepts that meet these requirements are already available on the market.
Consolidate SAP applications with FlexFrame for SAP
An example of just such a solution is FlexFrame for SAP. The platform consolidates SAP applications on standard industry platforms that companies can upgrade in small increments. SAP partner Fujitsu (formerly Fujitsu Siemens Computers) developed the product for SAP customers back in 2003.
“The flexibility gained by eliminating dependencies between certain SAP applications, operating systems, and servers makes FlexFrame a suitable platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategies and the architecture of SAP NetWeaver,” says Gunnar Dörken, who heads Fujitsu’s SAP-related IT infrastructure business. “Users with, say, 80 servers typically have to run an OS patch locally on each machine; with the FlexFrame solution, they only have to do it once centrally and then reboot all of the servers from a shared image,” explains Dörken, adding that this requires only a mouse click.
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