Beyond Uptime: Managing Modern SAP Operations
SUSE, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
So much goes into running SAP well-from patching without disruption, through managing high availability and navigating the shift to containers, all the way to staying ahead of technical debt before it catches up with you. That's a lot to carry, and most SAP environments do it all. until something goes wrong.
In the latest episode of SUSE's podcast, The Future is Open, we sit down with Al Kalafian, a SAP Specialist at SUSE with 31 years of experience in the SAP ecosystem. Kalafian started at IBM's SAP Competence Center when SAP was still a small operation, spent time at SAP's partner port in Walldorf, Germany and has lived through virtually every major shift in the SAP industry firsthand. In this conversation, Kalafian gets specific about what it takes to run SAP well in 2026 and beyond.
If you're navigating the transition to S/4HANA or working through what containerized SAP workloads mean for your teams, this episode is worth the listen.