HP has added two SAP-specific implementation to its ConvergedSystem product line: the CS900 for enterprise customers, and the CS500 for the smaller shop. The pitch from HP is that with a configuration purpose-built for different application environments, it can get customers firing with new servers, without the sysadmin having …

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Monday 2nd June 2014 12:29 GMT Anonymous Coward

Primary cause of SAP-running hardware failures...

A frustrated SAP user physically destroying the hardware through violence.

LOL.

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1. Monday 2nd June 2014 13:37 GMT AMBxx
  
  Re: Primary cause of SAP-running hardware failures...
  
  SAP ensures best practice. Sounds like the use is doing it all wrong.
  
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2. Monday 2nd June 2014 15:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Primary cause of SAP-running hardware failures...
  
  That's wonderful! Now we can fail over as many as 21,600 times a day!
  
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Monday 2nd June 2014 12:45 GMT JDX

SAP fail-over...

...and over, and over again.

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Monday 2nd June 2014 13:49 GMT Simulacra75

Wow!

The SMB version( presumably cheaper) running 256TB per node! Sign me up!!!

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1. Monday 2nd June 2014 18:22 GMT Crazy Operations Guy
  
  Re: Wow!
  
  Even 256 GBs is ridiculous for an SMB. I've seen SMBs where all of their servers combined added up to about 256 GB of RAM. Although I suppose it depends on what qualifies as an 'SMB'...
  
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Monday 2nd June 2014 14:50 GMT Tim 11

how on earth did it come to this?

needing all this state-of-the-art computing resource just to figure out a few people's time-sheets and expenses forms

<insert obligatory comparison with the amount of processing power required to execute a moon landing>

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1. Monday 2nd June 2014 16:27 GMT Getriebe
  
  Re: how on earth did it come to this?
  
  You forgot the /s
  
  To run a major ERP system with hundred level BOMs and create MRP work tos for multiple workcentres with stock pulls from multiple warehouse is a tad more difficult than you outline
  
  Whilst no fan of SAP, most of the stories against them originate in failed implementations which mostly is nothing to do with their software; its the people working around it.
  
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