Welcome to #openITchat: an industry chat about various IT migration topics every month.  You can join the chat by simply following the hashtag #openITchat.

Today's SAP business requirements demand smarter infrastructures with less complexity, more efficiency, and greater intelligence. Drawing on a history of storage innovation and our relationship with SAP that has lasted more than three decades, IBM works closely with SAP to provide a set of solutions designed to help simplify the task of running a dynamic SAP environment. IBM Smarter Storage® solutions for SAP are well-suited for SAP applications such as SAP Business Suite, including SAP NetWeaver technology platform applications, SAP Business All-in-One, SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, SAP appliances, including HANA, Business Warehouse Accelerator and Enterprise Search, and SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Archiving.

October's  #openITchat: This chat will feature the benefits of using IBM System Storage with SAP as part of our continued migration discussion. This Tweetchat will take place on November 1, 2012 at 11  a.m. EDT. 

Markus Fehling, IBM Storage Solutions for SAP manager will review why choosing the right storage vendor working with SAP is so crucial.  Markus will be joined by analysts, David Vellante,@dvellante, Wikibon founder and Stu Miniman, @stu, Wikibon analyst and a customer who has recently migrated to IBM Storage with SAP.