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Infinidat comments on SAP HANA migration​
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As the role of enterprise storage continues to grow in importance for SAP customers as the SAP mandated 2027 migration to S/4 HANA rapidly approaches, we ask Mike Jochimsen, Director of Alliances at Infinidat to explain the importance of SAP HANA to enterprises, and what is Infinidat doing to support the migration.
“SAP HANA is an in-memory database platform that is designed to provide real-time data analytics and real-time data processing, side-by-side, to customers, in order to help drive a competitive advantage. SAP HANA can be deployed on premises or in the cloud.”
“A March 2024 ASUG report estimates that 47% of its North American members have already migrated to S/4 HANA, while an additional 22% are planning to begin the migration in the next two years.”
“Customers who can process as much data as possible and as quickly as possible while minimizing expenses will be the most competitive. The SAP HANA TDI (Tailored Datacenter Integration) model combines SAP software components that are optimized on certified hardware from SAP partners. The SAP HANA TDI model is a more open and flexible model for enterprise customers. SAP HANA servers must still meet the SAP HANA requirements and be certified to run HANA. However, the storage can be a shared component of the SAP HANA environment.”
“Enterprise shared storage allows customers greater flexibility and the ability to take advantage of existing storage capacity they may have in their enterprise arrays. In addition, it allows customers to integrate the SAP HANA solution into their existing data centre operations, including next generation data protection, monitoring and data management. This helps to improve the time to value for an SAP HANA implementation, as well as substantially reduce risk and costs.”
“Storage solutions used in SAP HANA TDI deployments must be pre-certified by SAP to ensure they meet all SAP HANA performance and functional requirements. At Infinidat, we extensively tested SAP HANA configurations and performance against all InfiniBox F-series enterprise-proven storage arrays.”
“We recently announced that Infinidat’s InfiniBox® G4 family of enterprise storage solutions is now HANA certified, and delivers both all-flash and hybrid models that provide SAP customers with a high performance, highly available, and cyber storage resilient storage platform that is critical for the success of scalable S/4 HANA implementations. The G4 line provides a 30% increase in the number of HANA nodes supported, topping out at 124 HANA nodes with the F4400T models, and delivers up to 2.5X better IOPS and bandwidth and continues with industry-leading latency as low as 35 microseconds.”
“InfiniBox provides significant benefits over other storage arrays in the market to deliver SAP HANA customers significant advantages including: superior performance for processing data; maximum scale to process as much data as possible; low cost; guaranteed cyber storage resilience and recovery; and integration into existing data centre infrastructure.”
“All of these benefits to SAP HANA are added to all our longstanding capabilities which make us the ‘Standard in Enterprise Storage’. Powered by InfuzeOS™ the InfiniBox delivers: 100% availability; performance guarantees; unmatched enterprise data services; ease of use; our White Glove Service and Support - Including a Technical Advisor; and our award-winning InfiniSafe® Enterprise Cyber Storage Resilience.”
“Mission-critical workloads, like SAP HANA, need the best enterprise cyber storage security options in the market and our industry acclaimed InfiniSafe solutions are included in all our offerings.”
“Today’s enterprises need next-gen data protection and recovery that is cyber focused and thinks about ‘recovery first’. With Infinidat’s InfiniSafe Cyber Storage Guarantees, we can recover immutable snapshots in one minute or less for InfiniBox or InfiniBox SSA and 20 minutes or less for InfiniGuard®, regardless of data set size. So in the event that a customer needs to recover their data, they can rest assured knowing that immutable snapshot recoverability is guaranteed – and guaranteed to be fast!”