SAP Sapphire Preview: HANA, Cloud, and Mobility

Next week MSPmentor will be flying out to Orlando, Fla. for the SAP (NYSE: SAP) Sapphire Now to hear opinion from SAP executives and thought-leaders on the latest business technology trends and innovations. We'll be blogging live from the event and conducting interviews with SAP executives so that we can to provide managed services providers (MSPs) with the inside scoop. Here's a preview of what's on the agenda.

SAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott will make opening remarks on Monday and may touch on the company's mobility efforts as well as SAP's in-memory appliance, SAP HANA. SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe will speak on innovation and how businesses in the industry are capitalizing on technology innovation in cloud, mobile and in-memory computing. Other keynote speakers will focus on SAP Hana primarily.

Each day the show floor will be open all day from 10 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. If you get the chance, be sure to check the floor out to meet other partners in the channel. We'll be heading down there as well.

SAP most recently introduced the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service to provide organizations with a new deployment option to gain immediate value from the SAP HANA technology. Now partners are able to run applications on top of SAP's in-memory database technology. Hosting partners are not able to run the service at the moment, but SAP said they will be able to in the future.

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) made a recent move to enable customers to deploy Dell server, storage, and networking systems running SAP HANA. Dell said the solution optimizes SAP solution workloads, simplifies ordering and speed deployment, provides enterprise-class operation and performance, and reduces time to value. The solution is currently available in EMEA and the United States.

If any partners are attending the event, be sure to shoot us over an email or say hi when you see us on the show floor.