Big data is still the big buzzword among banks, healthcare companies and other data-intensive industries, and a lot of that buzz has been generated by SAP HANA, an in-memory data analytics solution that performs up to 10,000X faster than some current systems. You read that right: ten thousand times faster.
SAP HANA is a game changer for businesses, but it’s really just one player on a team. You also need the infrastructure to support SAP HANA including storage systems, processors, networking and virtualization. In fact, the infrastructure choices you make will determine the overall speed of your SAP HANA solution.
SAP HANA’s in-memory processing will deliver magnitudes of more speed on most any infrastructure platform that supports it. Yet processing power isn’t the only metric for speed, as it can take months to identify, implement and optimize an infrastructure for SAP HANA systems. The infrastructure decisions you make will ultimately impact not only the speed at which SAP HANA applications perform, but also the speed of procurement and the speed of deployment.
As our CTO John Brier noted in a recent blog post, converged infrastructures are gaining traction among businesses that wish to quickly deploy IT infrastructure as a pre-configured appliance. Converged infrastructures simplify procurement, accelerate deployment, scale easily and drive down total cost of ownership. They can also be an excellent fit for new applications like SAP HANA.
HP, a leader in this space credited with coining the name “converged infrastructure,” today offers two converged appliances that are built specifically for SAP HANA: the ConvergedSystem 500 and ConvergedSystem 900. Both feature Intel’s Xeon E7 V2 microprocessor, which has been optimized for SAP HANA workloads.
These HP systems deliver a pre-integrated, pre-validated and optimized infrastructure for SAP HANA applications that gives businesses a big, fast data solution in terms of procurement (one vendor/solution), deployment (operational in <48 hours) and pure processing power (Intel’s newest chip doubles the performance of SAP HANA applications).
If big data is on your radar, talk to AdvizeX about a proof-of-concept featuring the HP ConvergedSystem 500 and ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA. You’ll be amazed how fast big data can be. ▪