Cisco and EMC announced certification of Cisco UCS blades with EMC VNX5300 unified storage systems to run the SAP HANA platform. Together, these leading Cisco and EMC technologies can substantially reduce business risk and ensure that customers receive the scalability, high availability, disaster tolerance and continuous access required for their mission-critical SAP HANA information.
Validated through in-depth testing and analysis conducted by SAP AG, EMC, and Cisco, the certified solution enables customers to transform their business by harnessing the power of information to make real-time business decisions. By helping organisations act on information as it happens, SAP HANA helps customers dramatically increase the speed of their existing processes and allows for access to large amounts of data in shorter periods of time.
Cisco and EMC are working to address strong customer demand for SAP HANA infrastructure. Cisco and EMC’s joint go-to-market activities include sales collaboration, channel partner enablement, collaborative technical services and support, integrated professional services, and marketing. The integrated solution is now in limited availability globally.
Designed from the ground up with a “clean slate” approach, Cisco UCS is an integrated system, designed to optimise compute, networking, storage access, virtualisation and management. UCS tapped into a powerful market demand for a new approach to computing, enabling IT organisations to unleash new business models with its innovative, integrated architecture. Customers are able to reduce the time to deploy new applications, improve business agility and reduce costs. UCS is the first fabric computing platform that combines industry-standard, x86-architecture servers with networking and storage access into an integrated system.
In an extensive survey of end users conducted by leading industry analyst firm IDC, EMC was named the #1 storage choice for SAP solutions and other mission critical environments. The survey ranks storage vendors based on how end users are deploying their technology with enterprise applications. Results of the survey show that more customers choose EMC storage than any other storage for their SAP environments. EMC, as a leading information infrastructure provider for SAP solutions, provides customers running SAP HANA with the availability, protection, and automation needed to further enable real-time analytics to gain competitive advantage.
Designed to deliver proven Five-9’s availability, award winning VNX storage delivers end-to-end data integrity, multiple RAID options, and proactive global sparing and diagnostics. Advanced software suites provide local and remote data protection, application protection, security and compliance. The VNX series delivers leadership performance, efficiency, and simplicity for demanding virtual application environments.
VNX optimises application performance that span the leading set of enterprise applications, as well as the SAP HANA platform. EMC’s Unisphere software provides a simple and intuitive interface for provisioning, monitoring and managing the VNX family.
