By Drew Iacone
I always felt that SAP SAPPHIRE 2017 was going to be a uniquely exciting event. Today’s announcement by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) proves that my feeling was absolutely spot on.
What HPE has done is extend our solutions for SAP Applications from the Digital Core to the Intelligent Edge, empowering enterprises with real-time insight from vast amounts of data, thereby allowing them to accelerate business processes. The solutions combine infrastructure, software, and services to create complete solutions that make the goal of “run live” more accessible than ever before.
Here are the exciting details
HPE’s newly-announced solutions fall into four areas:
1. Accelerating real time analytics in the Digital Core – A next-generation architecture for SAP HANA is designed with Memory-Driven Computing principles to uniquely handle the demands of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA). It combines the proven mission-critical design of HPE Integrity Superdome X servers with the world-class scalable technology recently acquired from SGI to solve complex problems at greater scale, accelerate big data analytics and achieve greater insight. The new architecture delivers:
• Unparalleled scale for in-memory computing
• Unprecedented modularity.
• Unmatched reliability
2. New solutions for SAP-HANA Environments - HPE is extending its portfolio of on-premises and private cloud solutions for SAP HANA including:
• Largest S/4 HANA certifications, including the largest Scale-up configurations at 20TB AND the largest Scale-out configuration for S/4 HANA use cases at 80TB of memory.
• New SAP HANA solution for HPE Synergy
• New Enterprise Application Continuity solution to ensure high availability, disaster recovery and data protection for SAP and SAP HANA.
• Comprehensive all-flash storage portfolio for SAP HANA including 3PAR StoreServ, XP7 and Nimble Storage
• Networking solutions with HPE Arista
3. Empowering the Intelligent Edge with SAP - HPE is introducing Edgeline Converged Edge Systems with SAP Leonardo for Edge Computing. This allows enterprises to significantly transform operational scenarios and reimage their business models by gaining new insights into the vast amounts of data generated from industrial devices, such as pumps, assembly lines and other data-generating systems that reside on factory floors and other industrial location.
4. The Right Expertise for Business Transformation - HPE Pointnext offers a broad range of services to deliver desired business outcomes, including interactive and practical advisory workshops to help accelerate the time to value of SAP investments, and flexible consumption-based pricing models to scale up or scale down capacity as needed.
See the excitement in action
If you are coming to this week’s SAP SAPPHIRE NOW event, there are a number of ways you can find out more about these new HPE solutions for SAP:
• Join us for the SAPPHIRE NOW 2017 HPE IoT Breakfast Session. You’ll hear a panel of HPE, SAP and industry present best practices in edge-to-core-to-cloud IoT applications
• Attend a confidential breakfast session that will provide insight into HPE’s future roadmap for SAP Solutions
• Stop by the Guru Bar in HPE Booth #456 and talk to me or one of the other 25+ Gurus who will be available throughout the event. You’ll be dealing with experts with specialized knowledge and expertise, plus over 350 years of combined experience with HPE – SAP solutions. We can fill you in on all the exciting details.
• Check out our SAP Theatre Presentations to hear the latest and greatest from HPE from Edge to core.
• Tuesday, May 16, 3:00pm - Session ID: 44235
HPE Visionary Innovations for the Real-time Enterprise of the Next Decade
• Wednesday May 17th - 4:30pm – Session ID: 44244
Your Edge | Your Core - HPE is bringing OT and IT together for you!
For complete information on all the great HPE things you can see, do, and learn at SAP SAPPHIRE 2017, go to our HPE Sapphire Now 20017 event website: www.hpe.com/events/sapphire2017.
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