HP giving HANA a bear hug

INDIA: HP has announced the expansion of its HP ConvergedSystem portfolio for SAP HANA, delivering what it calls, the largest SAP-certified solution for SAP HANA(1) platform-based workloads, helping clients reduce costs and improve response time to business demands.

SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA is now used by thousands of global organizations to run their mission-critical operations and power end-to-end processes, as per the announcement. Business-critical applications-such as those for enterprise resource planning, supply chain and customer relationship management-are vital to business operations and require a highly scalable infrastructure that can ensure up to 100-percent uptime.

It adds that the new HP ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA is certified by SAP to deliver up to 12 terabytes of data in a single memory pool to power the most mission-critical business applications. The commercialization resulting from the HP and SAP co-innovation initiative "Project Kraken," HP ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA is a massively scalable system that enables clients to manage and analyze extremely large and diverse data sets from a single system to facilitate real-time business decisions. In addition, the system's flexible configurations and high availability let clients consolidate mission-critical business apps to a centralized platform, helping reduce costs and simplifying the IT environment, the company stated.

"Businesses are adopting SAP HANA to make real-time business decisions based on massive data sets, but are often constrained by their infrastructure's scalability and availability," said Vikram K, director, Servers, HP India. "With HP ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA, HP is helping customers achieve business transformation with SAP HANA by delivering what we believe is a system optimized for the largest, most mission-critical workloads."

"In-memory computing allows organizations to quickly make informed business decisions by processing massive amounts of data much faster than ever possible before," said Matt Eastwood, group vice president and general manager, Enterprise Platforms, IDC. "However, to capitalize on its benefits, organizations need a highly scalable data management environment that allows organizations to capture and analyze all of their information on one platform, eliminating the need to transfer data from other systems-a major source of information delay."

As emphasised further, HP is bringing new cloud-based services to SAP HANA through HP Helion Business Applications for SAP solutions.Also built on HP Converged Infrastructure, the managed cloud combines server, storage and network resources to provide customers with a secure hosted environment to run critical business applications with high availability from multiple locations-reducing latency and capable of meeting data-sovereignty requirements.