SAP introduces HANA enterprise cloud

BANGALORE, INDIA: SAP AG announced HANA Enterprise Cloud service.

Going forward, running mission-critical SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and new applications powered by HANA, SAP's in-memory platform, will be possible as a managed cloud service with elastic petabyte scale, as per a release.

"With SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, we are addressing a fundamental customer need that we have seen since we first launched HANA," said Vishal Sikka, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Technology and Innovation. "Customers want more and more options in how they take advantage of the value SAP HANA brings. We are simplifying customers' experience and expanding their choice in how they want to adopt SAP HANA, now bringing it to a massive scale for enterprise mission critical applications - and we are doing this without disruption through the cloud."

SAP plans to deliver the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud along with its partners in an "open + us" strategy. SAP intends to adapt this open ecosystem strategy with its managed service providers to offer the capabilities of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud from their data centres, as well as from multiple SAP data centres worldwide.

Diane Bryant, senior vice-president and general manager, Data Centers and Connected Systems Group, Intel, said: "SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud running on the Intel Xeon processor E7 family will provide our customers with the opportunity to deploy mission-critical solutions powered by SAP HANA with cloud simplicity. We look forward to furthering our collaboration with SAP as the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud takes customers to the next level of scale, security and reliability."