ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced that IBM Power Systems has been certified for
the SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud as a critical infrastructure
platform provider for large SAP HANA systems, aiming to simplify
the IT infrastructure for the managed, private cloud environment.
The service will run on IBM POWER9-based IBM Power Systems E980
servers, which have the industry's largest virtualized server
scalability of 24TB for the SAP HANA databasei.
Providing the IT infrastructure for a managed, private cloud
environment, the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is a scalable and
secured service that is designed to accelerate a user's
evolution on the path to cloud readiness. It provides
capabilities that span the software and hardware stack, a
comprehensive menu of functional and technical services, and
the level of control clients should expect on premises, all in
one privately managed environment.
"SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud on IBM Power Systems will help
clients unlock the full value of SAP HANA in the cloud, with the
possibility of enhancing the scalability and availability of
mission critical SAP applications while moving workloads to SAP
HANA and lowering TCO," said Christoph
Herman, SVP and Head of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud Delivery.
"Combining SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud capabilities with IBM Power
Systems can help establish a faster path to cloud readiness for our
clients while addressing risk and providing closer alignment to the
intelligent enterprise."
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud users can take advantage of the
firmware-based virtualization in the IBM POWER platform that offers
the largest SAP HANA scalability in scale-up systemsii.
This helps enable SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud users to accommodate
capacity changes – this is designed for clients to benefit from
faster performance of their SAP HANA-based business intelligence applications
by running them in a single node while maximizing the availability
of SAP applications with the highly resilient infrastructure.
"In June, IBM announced the availability of POWER9 in the IBM
Cloud, taking the first step toward our goal of bringing IBM
Cognitive Systems technology to our clients, no matter where they
are," said Stephen Leonard, General
Manager, IBM Cognitive Systems, "With the addition of IBM Power
Systems in SAP HANA Enterprise
Cloud, we're giving our clients more choices and greater
flexibility to run their workloads where they want to across the
hybrid cloud and accelerate digital transformation."
IBM Power Systems has been delivering scalability and
availability for SAP HANA
applications since it was certified for SAP HANA in 2015, and the ongoing collaboration
between IBM Power Systems and SAP provides virtualization on-demand
via hypervisor-defined features in Power Systems. This enables
clients to take advantage of multiple SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service levels and
transform their IT operations by shifting the focus from
infrastructure maintenance to innovating with SAP HANA in the cloud.
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud on
IBM Power Systems is another testament to IBM and SAP's
long-standing, client-centric relationship. Since forming the
Digital Transformation partnership more than three years ago,
IBM Services and SAP have worked together to provide services and
capabilities that help accelerate how customers around the world
modernize their systems and processes on their path to becoming an
intelligent enterprise.
For more information about IBM Power Systems, visit
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power.
Media Contact:
Sam Ponedal
IBM Media Relations
916-217-0145
sponeda@us.ibm.com
i As per the SAP Note 2188482, on POWER9 a
maximum of 24TB can be used by single HANA 2.0 (scale-up) must not be exceeded
ii See footnote 1 for more detailed explanation
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