HPE Extends Solutions for SAP Applications

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE) announced new compute, storage and networking solutions running SAP HANA and SAP Leonardo to help customers accelerate real-time analytics.

Leveraging a portfolio of assets, HPE combines the infrastructure, software, and services to empower enterprises’ Digital Core of critical data, applications and processes.

Building on its 28-year partnership with SAP serving over 25,000 customers, HPE announced:

• A preview of its next-generation architecture for SAP HANA, designed with memory-driven computing principles, enabling enterprises of any size to analyze and process massive amounts of data at the digital core in real time.
• New SAP-certified solutions extending SAP HANA offerings for on-premises IT and private cloud deployments.
• Intelligent Edge solutions featuring SAP Leonardo providing customers the ability to derive real-time insights and produce actionable results from IoT data by enabling end-to-end visibility to product centric operations.
• New SAP advisory and transformation, professional and operation services from HPE Pointnext designed to accelerate innovation.

“Businesses need solutions that allow them to manage growing volumes of data in real-time in order to successfully achieve digital transformation,” said Drew Iacone, VP, global SAP practice and alliance, HPE. “As the industry leader for SAP HANA infrastructure solutions, customers can look to HPE and SAP to co-innovate in bringing to market edge to core solutions designed to help enterprise organizations accelerate business outcomes.“

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Accelerating real time analytics at the Digital Core
To address analytics and data challenges, enterprises must modernize their database infrastructure to an in-memory environment that can handle the scale and growth of large data sets for critical business processes.

HPE’s next generation architecture for SAP HANA is designed with memory-driven computing principles to handle the demands of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), a powerful and configurable suite of software solutions that can simplify business operations. This new architecture combines the mission-critical reliability of HPE Integrity Superdome X servers with the scalable technology acquired from SGI to solve complex problems at greater scale, accelerate big data analytics and achieve greater insight.

The next generation architecture for SAP HANA will deliver:

• Scale for in-memory computing: Enabling businesses of all sizes to start small and grow to address the largest scale data demands of SAP HANA.
• Modularity: A common building block design will provide exceptional flexibility for customers to scale up or out easily, and keep pace with business demands.
• Reliability: To meet the demanding SLAs of SAP workloads and protect high-value applications and data.

HPE unveils new solutions for SAP-HANA environments
For organizations seeking to leverage enterprise data to make faster and more informed business decisions, HPE is extending its portfolio of on-premises and private cloud solutions for SAP HANA including:

• Largest S/4 HANA certifications: In addition to having the largest scale-up configurations at 20TB, HPE now has the largest scale-out configuration for S/4 HANA use cases at 80TB of memory, making HPE the partner for customers looking for scale, flexibility, performance and efficiency.
• New SAP HANA solution for HPE Synergy: The composable infrastructure certified for SAP HANA. A solutions for cloud service providers running a multi-workload private cloud environment.
• New enterprise application continuity solution to ensure HA, DR and data protection for SAP and SAP HANA. The combination of HPE Serviceguard, HPE 3PAR StoreServ All Flash, HPE StoreOnce and HPE Recovery Manager Central deliver BC for mission critical SAP environments.
• All-flash storage portfolio for SAP HANA including HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE XP7 and Nimble Storage to accelerate business performance with maximum efficiencies.
• Networking solutions with HPE and Arista, SAP customers can connect across multi-cloud environments for increased flexibility.

Empowering the Intelligent Edge
To help enterprise customers realize actionable insights in manufacturing and industrial settings, HPE is introducing Edgeline converged edge systems with Leonardo for Edge Computing, a bundle of data processing software and analytics services optimized to run in edge environments. The Edgeline system is the industry’s first bundle for Leonardo that delivers data center-class compute power that can withstand industrial environments, while meeting the processing and analytics requirements from high volumes of data generated in Industrial IoT environments.

The HPE and SAP solution allows customers to transform operational scenarios and reimage their business models by gaining new insights into the vast amounts of data generated from industrial devices, such as pumps, assembly lines and other data-generating systems that reside on factory floors and other industrial location.

Expertise for Business Transformation
To assist customers on their SAP journey, HPE Pointnext offers a range of services to deliver desired business outcomes, including interactive and practical advisory workshops to help accelerate the time to value of SAP investments, and flexible consumption-based pricing models to scale up or scale down capacity as needed.