HP announces converged system for SAP HANA

MUMBAI, INDIA: HP has announced a new converged system 500 and storage plug-ins to increase business agility and safeguard next-generation deployments of SAP HANA.

Enhancements to the converged system include HP Apollo 2000; the HP Apollo 4000 Systems family; the HP big data reference architecture; HP Integrity Superdome X and the HP ProLiant DL580, DL560 and BL660c Gen9 servers.

The HP Apollo 2000 is designed to deliver hyperscale efficiency and performance in traditional datacenters running general purpose and high performance workloads. Up to four independent hot-pluggable servers in a standard 2U chassis enable customers to mix and match servers for workload optimization.

The HP Apollo 4000 includes three servers purpose-built for data-intensive workloads like Hadoop and big data analytics, in addition to object storage. This family offers a choice of capacity density, performance scalability with one and three nodes, and the flexibility to change the ratio of compute to storage to match workload requirements.

It includes the 2U server in the HP Apollo 4200 with 28 large form factor (LFF) drives or 50 small form factor (SFF) drives.  Additionally, the HP Apollo 4510 offers a 4U chassis with one server node providing rack-scale storage server density with up to 5.44 Petabytes (PB) in 42U rack. It offers three servers nodes in a chassis, making it ideal for Hadoop-based analytics, which leverages three-copy data replication.

The HP Apollo 4000 servers, when combined with HP Moonshot create the foundation for the HP big data reference architecture, which deploys a standard Hadoop distribution in an asymmetric fashion, enabling customers to scale storage and compute independently, providing up to twice the performance in 50 percent less space.

HP Integrity Superdome X is now certified for Windows and is ideal to support SQL Server 2014 deployments requiring the highest levels of transactional throughput and fast response times. With a large memory footprint and high-availability features, including hard partitioning that is 20 times more reliable than soft partitions, HP Integrity Superdome X is also an ideal fit for in-memory computing applications that require flexibility for the most stringent service level agreements. Additionally, HP Integrity Superdome X delivers 40 percent lower total cost of ownership than Oracle Exadata X5-2.5

The HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9 server delivers the performance and scalability in a four socket x86 system, with efficiency for resource and data-intensive workloads, such as in-memory platforms and structured databases like Microsoft SQL Server 2014. The server is integrated in the HP Converged System 500 to provide increased processing power, memory size and I/O capability to process and manage large volumes of information quickly.

The HP Converged System portfolio for SAP HANA is designed for power and reliability, while engineered to deliver performance, availability and scalability that is compatible with SAP S/4HANA. Organizations with medium-sized SAP solution-based landscapes looking for an economical way to start their journey can look to the HP Converged System 500 for SAP HANA.

The HP Converged System 500 for SAP HANA has been upgraded with the newest Intel Xeon Processor E7 V3 family architecture and supports SAP S/4HANA. New HP Converged Storage plug-ins helps increase flexibility and reduces customer risk through a comprehensive data backup and recovery solution.

Gartner forecasts that 4.9 billion connected things will be in use in 2015, up 30 percent from 2014 and will reach 25 billion by 2020. This will cause an exponential increase in the amount of data, each of which will have a distinct value to the business. As a result, the industry is seeing the emergence of new technologies and architectures–from open source data analytics and database platforms to in-memory databases – built to derive value from data and deliver business outcomes.

“The ever-increasing volume, velocity and variety of data have stretched traditional server technologies beyond their limits – it needs a set of purpose-built compute platforms specifically designed to extract the maximum value of the data,” said Vikram K, Director, Servers, HP India. “HP is innovating the designs of its broad Compute portfolio to align it to specific workload needs in order to help customers deliver the most impactful business outcomes by using data in ways that was impossible in the past.”

The HP Apollo 2000, Big Data Reference Architecture, HP Integrity Superdome X and HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9 are available now through HP and worldwide channel partners. The HP Apollo 4000 family, HP ProLiant DL560 Gen9 and HP ProLiant BL660c Gen9 are expected to be available in early June 2015.

HP Converged System 500 for SAP HANA with Intel Xeon Processor E7 V3 Family architecture will be available worldwide starting late summer 2015.