HP, SAP unveil single server test for big data

BANGALORE, INDIA: HP and SAP AG announced a joint initiative, codenamed 'Project Kraken', to build a test system, from HP's server technology and in-memory SAP HANA database for SAP Business Suite

Unveiled last January, Project Kraken is a co-innovation effort between HP and SAP that focuses on SAP HANA, enabling customers to reduce the time required to rapidly transact, analyze and process large amounts of data within a single server, says a release.

"The combination of SAP HANA with HP Converged Infrastructure revolutionizes in-memory computing to redefine the speed at which market leaders will soon operate, to speed transactions to a matter of seconds," said Bill Veghte, chief operating officer, HP. "With the collaboration of HP and SAP, organizations can consolidate online transaction and analytic processing into one place and perform real-time analytics at never-before-imagined speeds, while competitors continue to move data between multiple environments to access meaningful insights at a far slower pace."

Project Kraken's goal is to provide customers additional choice in scalability for large, online transaction processing applications, with requirements for real-time analytical insights into this data.

The prototype system, optimized with 16 Intel Xeon processor E7 family (codenamed Ivy Bridge-EX) central processing units (CPUs) and 12 terabytes of memory, has been engineered specifically for complex, data-intensive workloads. These include supply chain, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and data analysis.

With this solution, customers can consolidate multiple online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytic processing (OLAP) databases into one vertically scalable server.

"With Project Kraken, HP and SAP are illustrating how customers can achieve a step jump in performance, while adding simplicity in the management of the environment," said Vishal Sikka, member, executive board, SAP AG Technology and Innovation., "It shows how large enterprises can confidently run their enterprise applications, including SAP Business Suite, with growing quantities of data in shorter windows of time. This offering will fundamentally and forever change the database market."