Fusion-io ION Accelerators V2.3 Certified for SAP HANA Platform

Fusion-io Inc. announced that its all-flash ION Accelerator version 2.3 is certified by SAP as an enterprise storage solution for the SAP HANA platform.

Using ION Accelerator with HANA helps customers maximize application performance for data-intensive workloads. This certification enables the company to participate in SAP’s program for SAP HANA-tailored data center integration using its solution. Through participation in the program, customers can leverage their hardware and infrastructure components for their HANA-based environments, providing choice for organizations even when working in heterogeneous environments.

The platform and SDS solutions accelerate virtualization, databases, cloud computing, big data and performance applications. From e-commerce retailers to media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies, our customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers with the technology to accelerate the applications of the information economy.

Powered by Fusion ioMemory, the accelerator delivers the performance, and HA standards required for use cases of HANA. Advances in mobile, cloud and big-data technologies require companies to analyze data, make decisions and innovate faster. HANA converges database and application platform capabilities in memory to transform transactions and analytics so businesses can operate in real time. It integrates with IT architectures as a supported, highly available shared storage environment for customers seeking to add a flash performance tier for their deployments of HANA.

With its deployment architecture, it delivers the performance and reliability that customers rely on for their most demanding applications.

“Fusion-io enables customers to quickly gather real-time intelligence to make informed business decisions through application acceleration,” said Keith Brown, Fusion-io CIO. “Fusion ION Accelerator – when used as a pair of clustered devices – is SAP-certified to scale-out to up to 32 nodes, making it one of the scale-out storage solutions for SAP HANA. We are thrilled at this latest key technology accomplishment.“

It increases transactional database performance and accelerates business intelligence with far less infrastructure needed than disk-based solutions. Customers that use Fusion-io flash memory with HANA can realize faster data load times, faster backup and recovery times, and better SAN utilization. It delivers increased performance and scalability for deployments of HANA at lower capacity costs.

Fusion-io partners have set records with ION Accelerator appliances that accelerate applications up to 40 times while enhancing traditional storage by offloading performance demands. ION Accelerator HA replicates data between appliances using low-latency connections and optimized data placement that minimizes the impact of replication on overall database performance while providing administrators with the data availability required to run their businesses.

It is available from the company and server systems vendors.