SAP on the Cloud

Dr.-Ing. Michael Missbach is the head of the SAP Cisco Competence Center in Walldorf, Germany. With 14 years of SAP experience, his work focuses currently on HANA and unified and stateless computing infrastructures for mission critical applications in public and private cloud scenarios. As a senior consultant he was responsible for the development of adaptive SAP infrastructures and the SAPS-meter Web service. Earlier, he worked as IT Superintendent for ALCOA and implemented outsourcing and network projects for GE. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and received his doctorate in Materials Science at what has become now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Thorsten Stärk always wanted to be an inventor - and has come close to it. He conducted COBOL trainings, published SAP benchmarks, designed HANA appliances and wrote a book on electronics. Thorsten works for VCE, an EMC company, as an SAP Solutions Engineer. In his role he strives to turn the paradigm of converged infrastructure into customer reality - always combining VMware virtualization, Cisco UCS hardware and EMC storage (VCE). His passion is to find out "why" no matter where. Cameron Gardiner is a developer working for Microsoft SQL Server R&D team based in Tokyo Japan. His role is to run Microsoft's customer facing development programs such as "First Customer Shipment" of new releases of Windows, SQL Server and new technologies such as SQL Server 2012 Column Store, Hyper-V 3.0 and cloud deployments. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked as a SAP Basis Consultant covering UNIX, Oracle and DB2 platforms. Cameron is a contributor to the popular SAP on SQL Server blog and has written numerous whitepapers on topics ranging from Hardware Technologies to Securing SAP systems on Microsoft platforms. He is a regular speaker at events and is an instructor teaching a course on SAP on Microsoft platforms to several hundred students per year. His ambition is to transfer knowledge to allow customers to modernize their Business Critical Systems and benefit from modern high performance commodity platforms and cloud deployment options. Joshua McCloud is a cyber security Business Development Manager and Solutions Architect with Cisco's Asia Pacific Enterprise Networking organization. Joshua works across various industry sectors throughout Asia, using architectural approaches to help customers improve operational effectiveness in cyber security. Joshua has worked for over 19 years in the public and private sector environment supporting customers in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Joshua has deep expertise in the areas of architectural methodologies and frameworks, cyber security, cloud, IP mobility and military communications systems. Mag. Robert Madl, MBA serves as Sales Specialist for SAP projects at Cisco Systems where he takes care of SAP projects in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia. Prior joining Cisco he was a Business Architect for a SAP hosting provider and system vendor. Coming from cloud based mobile device development his journey as a consultant in IT business led him through automated software provisioning, high-level network design, datacentre infrastructure projects, automated resource provisioning projects for large-scale virtualization environments to UNIX migration and SAP HANA projects. With his experience spanning from organizational management to command-line knowledge he often acts as the link between business and engineering. He studied Information Management at the Johannes Kepler University Linz where he earned his master's degree and he earned his MBA in Sales Management at the LIMAK business school of Johannes Kepler University Linz. Mark Tempes is a Senior Architect and leads the SAP NetWeaver consulting team at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services South Pacific. He has more than 11 years of experience

Clouds demystified.- From R/3 to S/4 HANA.- Service Levels for SAP on Cloud.- Securing SAP on the Cloud.- Change and Configuration Management.- SAP and the Internet of Things.- The Hybrid Cloud.- SAP Solutions on Public Clouds.- Private Cloud Infrastructures for SAP.- Stateless Computing.- Economic and Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing.