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SAPPHIRE NOW Day 2: All about HANA

By Freya Purnell

The second day of SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando brought a range of announcements about developments relating to SAP HANA.

Steve Lucas, president, platform solutions, SAP AG, said, “With continued innovations in SAP HANA, mobile and big data combined with dramatically simpler migration to the cloud, SAP provides enhanced integration for our customers, allowing customers to focus on what is important – innovating to win.”

SAP releases Service Pack 8 for HANA; turnkey solutions for HANA Enterprise Cloud

The new release of service pack 8 (SP8) provides the next steps for customers to accelerate deployment of SAP, taking advantage of a wider network of partner certified to support HANA-based solutions in the cloud.

According to SAP, SP8 also empowers customers to innovate next-generation SAP and customer applications, and deploy visualisation software SAP Lumira on top of HANA to provide real-time analytics capabilities.

The management of HANA has also been simplified through native high availability and disaster recovery capabilities, such as synchronous replication and support for multiple hot standbys to enable near-zero downtime for upgrades and maintenance.

SAP also announced a new set of three turnkey solutions to help customers more easily migrate to the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. The new solutions are for retail insurance and supplier network collaboration and Ariba network integration.

HANA Innovation Award winners announced

SAPPHIRE NOW 2014 saw the introduction of the SAP HANA Innovation Award, which recognised outstanding projects by customers who have deployed SAP HANA for production use in the last 12 months.

Spirit AeroSystems won the category of ‘Trailblazer’, NCT was the winner in the ‘Social Hero Innovator’ category and Centerpoint Energy won the ‘Big Data Innovator’ category.

AGL’s Data Intelligence Program on SAP HANA was among the top 10 finalists for the ‘Big Data Innovator’ category.

Accenture, HP and SAP collaborate on HANA subscription service

Accenture, SAP America, and HP Enterprise Group are bringing together their respective strengths to create a subscription-based model for customers to access HANA.

The solution will allow clients that have already purchased HANA but have not started their deployment or fully utilised their license capacity for SAP HANA to access integrated solution-as-a-service and additional managed services solutions.

Under the terms of the collaboration, Accenture will act as primary services provider and the single point of contact for customers, HP’s Enterprise Group as primary infrastructure provider, and SAP providing mission-critical product support.

Kevin Ichhpurani, senior vice president and head of corporate business development and strategic ecosystem, SAP, said the announcement is another step towards helping customer leverage HANA in the cloud.

“Together with Accenture and HP, we plan to offer the world-class benefits of SAP HANA through a more simplified approach that can include required technology and services without the capital expense of traditional deployment.”

SAP ramps up strategic collaborations

SAP has certified HANA for production use on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including Intel Ivy Bridge support, and is also collaborating with Red Hat to enable SAP licensees working on the Amazon Web Services cloud to be able to consume Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA on demand.

Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, platform business unit, Red Hat said for the first time, SAP customers have a choice in operating system platforms for deploying real-time data management and applications solutions.

SAP also announced that SAP HANA on VMware vSphere 5.5 is now generally available for single virtual machines running on a dedicated SAP HANA certified server for production use, with multiple virtual machines on SAP HANA certified servers also available via controlled availability. The company said this will enable customers to simplify their data centres, achieving faster time to value, higher service levels and lower total cost of ownership.

SUSE extends high availability capabilities to HANA

Becoming one of the first to bring open source high availability to HANA, SUSE has enabled these capabilities for deployments via the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications, as a built-in feature.

“Both existing and new customers using SAP HANA in mission-critical and large-scale environments where the high availability absolutely matters will immediately benefit from these outstanding SUSE HA capabilities,” said Michael Miller, SUSE vice president of global alliances and marketing.

Using the high availability component of SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP applications, including the new resource agents, customers can automate their system replication of HANA to optimise database availability, especially with the platform’s memory pre-loading capabilities.

Attunity accelerates HANA deployment with new solution

A new Gold Client Solution from Attunity will accelerate HANA adoption and enable rapid deployment of SAP applications in the data centre or in the cloud.

By enabling enterprises to easily select, protect and copy a reduced and relevant data set to HANA, regardless of data type or volume, a quick and secure migration can be achieved with synchronisation of data across SAP applications.

“Solving data replication and test data management challenges is Attunity’s strength, and for over 12 years now, Gold Client Solutions has been helping customers maximize the value of their investments in SAP,” said Matt Hayes, VP of SAP Business at Attunity. “We are excited to present continued innovations of Gold Client Solutions and our Deployment Accelerator offerings for customers and partners considering SAP HANA.”

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