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By: Naji Almahmoud

September 14, 2016 1:17 am

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Courage is Accepting Being "Alone"

10 Years Ago Go to Nov. 2, 2006 when by then Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Novell (SUSE) CEO Ron Hovsepian jointly broke the news around broad collaboration on Windows and Linux. The market and community reactions were very mixed and to some extreme level calling for boycott. Today, the famous motto is Microsoft loves […]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

December 17, 2015 11:07 am

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New Technology Available in 2015

Apply security fixes to your IT systems with zero interruption It is called live patching that enable you to keep your IT system running while mitigating new threats. In other word, no more panic when the market discover new operating system vulnerability. New technology protect your operating system as it keeps running. Less than a […]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

November 18, 2015 7:35 am

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Carpe Diem; Reach to Billions of Users

[caption id="attachment_21705" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Carpe Diem[/caption] Half of the world's population have a mobile device that connect us (billions) to each other. That's no surprise everyone and mobile apps are at the heart of human interactions. Businesses want to acquire customers who are reachable through business apps. We used decades ago, […]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

September 22, 2014 12:12 am

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Simpler Future with SAP and Partners: Your Choice of Innovation at Lower Cost and Higher Performance

Numerous practical examples demonstrate that SAP solutions with partners are continuing to make great strides in the IT market. This is especially true for SAP customers who migrate their business-critical applications to save costs and increase availability and system performance, including companies that rely on the in-memory database SAP HANA or want to make their […]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

February 28, 2014 3:27 am

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“Into the Real-Time Age Together with SUSE”

SAP Vice President Chris Hallenbeck at SUSECon 2013: “Into the Real-Time Age Together with SUSE” “HANA is just the start. We embarked on this journey with SUSE and we’ll continue on it with SUSE.” Chris Hallenbeck, Global Vice President of HANA Solution Management at SAP, used these words in his keynote […]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

February 11, 2014 12:12 pm

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What did I learn from SAP in 10 years of partnership?

Introduction Early 2004, I joined the EMEA Alliance team at Novell following the acquisition of SUSE few months earlier. Given my background in software development of business applications, I was pleased to be responsible for Oracle alliance in EMEA and for SAP Alliance globally. For couple of years I engaged actively with Oracle team in […]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

January 31, 2014 4:37 am

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Cloud Computing – Enabling Change: Also First Choice for SAP HANA®

We all see it whenever we look up into the sky: clouds are transient formations. Depending on the weather conditions, they can provide the backdrop to a pleasant evening or herald the onset of severe storms. Something true about these clouds, they constantly CHANGE! These clouds are very different from those that enable users to […]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

January 20, 2014 2:17 pm

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High Availability for SAP: SUSE Linux Offers 99.999 Percent

Whether it is Business Suite®, NetWeaver®, ERP®, or CRM®, when it comes to the reliability of business-critical SAP systems, I have noticed that most companies are no longer willing to compromise and now demand a high availability rate up to  99.999 percent. In other words, an application must never be down for longer […]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

January 9, 2014 4:03 pm

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SUSE Linux Gives SAP HANA® Wings

Over 2,100 companies of different sizes and from all sectors of industry already use SAP’s in-memory appliance, HANA – benefitting from quicker transactions, analysis, planning, as well as forecast and trend evaluation. This is backed up by countless practical examples. In its latest reference customer blog, SAP writes that HANA has enabled the […]

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