SAP Business Warehouse and support for SAP Business Suite; S4. HANA is now here. ... availability while protecting data
Solution Brief
DELL EMC STORAGE OFFERS FOR SAP HANA TDI Deploy SAP HANA as part of datacenter architecture providing greater flexibility, lower TCO and scalability to growth SAP environments leveraging existing IT investments, processes and shared services.
HIGHLIGHTS The SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) model offers lower TCO, greater deployment flexibility. leveraging existing IT investments, processes and shared services.
Today’s Situation SAP HANA and S4 HANA are Disrupting IT Since its debut, SAP HANA has become the fastest growing product in the history of SAP AG, and is SAP’s strategic platform for all development and innovation. Already proven enormously successful for Data Marts, analytics using SAP Business Warehouse and support for SAP Business Suite; S4 HANA is now here. S4 HANA is the next-generation business suite designed to help you run simple in the digital economy. This new suite is built on SAP’s advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA. IT’s Dilemma IT departments require an infrastructure strategy that enables HANA to scale for new workloads as companies mainstream applications designed for the digital economy.
DELL EMC Storage for SAP HANA TDI With Dell EMC’s Storage strategy:
Run HANA on the #1 storage platform for SAP* Maximize savings by integrating HANA with your existing DELL EMC storage Scales seamlessly as workloads increase. Simplify IT management leveraging existing IT processes
Enable high availability leveraging the SAP Block API co-developed with DELL EMC
Protect SAP data with Dell EMC proven data protection solutions *IDC Storage User Demand Study, 12/14
The SAP HANA TDI model allows offers lower TCO, greater deployment flexibility leveraging existing IT investments, processes and services.
Virtualized SAP HANA improves performance while lowering infrastructure and operational costs.
By connecting SAP-certified servers to existing DELL EMC enterprise storage systems, SAP customers can:
Use existing multi-site data center designs.
Leverage existing skills of data center personnel.
Retain proven technologies and procedures.
Reuse existing hardware components.
Maintain existing automation and operational processes.
Virtualized SAP HANA with VMware As SAP HANA deployments having evolved rapidly from stand-alone appliances to TDI, customers can also virtualize SAP HANA to take advantage of the economics and operational agility of the virtualized environment.
Data Protection & Availability for the SAP application drive data protection continuum.
Dell IT has been the leader in the adoption of virtualized SAP HANA with the industry’s first production deployment running SAP BPC. This has substantially enhanced productivity with; 400% improvement in Cost Center retrieval execution, and reduction in data load times from 40 minutes to 60 seconds. Dell EMC’s close integration with VMware enables you to be on the leading edge of virtualized SAP HANA on VMware vCloud® Suite deployments. You can deploy applications in test/dev and production using virtualized SAP HANA to improve performance while lowering infrastructure and operational costs.
Data Protection and High Availability Regardless of the SAP HANA deployment model—appliance, TDI, converged, or virtualized—technical teams must deliver continuous availability while protecting data and meeting recovery-time and recovery-point objectives. To minimize the potential damage from outages and disasters, they need solutions that offer in-depth data protection with capabilities and deployment choices that can be tailored to their individual requirements and risks.
The Dell EMC Difference Not only does Dell EMC have a nineteen year history in partnering with SAP on joint engineering projects and best practices, DELL IT runs SAP Business Suite and SAP HANA. This combination provides Dell EMC a unique position with the ability to both “solve today’s efficiency challenges and at the same time pave the ground for a future safe transformation to HANA and Cloud”.
