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Why Businesses Should Consider IBM Power Systems for SAP HANA and S/4HANA
SAP-stated benefits from S/4HANA
- Earlier period closing
- Better forecasting
- Simulation of results or organizational structures
- Better insights into customer behavior
- Real-time sales and cost analysis in any format
- Better service levels in customer-facing applications
S/4HANA technology innovations that will challenge many hardware platforms
- 3-7x higher throughput
- Up to 1800x faster analytics
- Unlimited workload capacity
- SAP HANA multi-tenancy
- SAP HANA Cloud Platform extensions
- All data: social, text, geo, graph, processing
- No locking, parallelism for throughput
- ERP, CRM, SRM, SCM, PLM in one system
- 1/10 of data footprint
S/4HANA: Consolidation on less (but no less sophisticated) infrastructure
Traditional DB: 100GB
SPA HANA: 20GB
S/4HANA: 7GH
IBM Power: Ideal platform for infrastructure demands imposed by SAP HANA and S/4HANA Flexibility
- Cloud-like
- Scale to 16 TB with S/4HANA
- Mix workloads with PowerVM
- Up to 8 production VMs
- Go live quickly with a new VM
- Capacity on demand
- Secure virtualization
Resiliency
- Heuristics for predictive failure alerts
- Memory chip failure prevention
- VM as failover target in standby mode
Performance
- 8-way simultaneous multi-threading
- 32 TB memory
- 230 Gbps memory bandwidth
- Large L2, L3 and L4 cache designed for big data
- SMID (single instruction, multiple data)
Top 2 Customer Virtualization Needs for SAP HANA and S/4HANA
- Virtualization for a product environment — with more built-in virtualization
- Greater ability to run mixed workloads
Top 2 Customer Virtualization Needs for SAP HANA and S/4HANA
- Flexibility — TDI will provide greater ability to customize the SAP HANA environment
- Architecture — Prefer a SAP HANA solution on RISC with IBM Power
IBM Power is an ideal platform for hybrid cloud with SAP HANA and S/4HANA More than 80% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to Hybrid Cloud architectures by 2017
Hybrid Cloud with IBM Power
- Turn on and pay for cores only when needed
- Run IBM Power as a cloud with OpenStack
- Bring up SAP via IBM PowerVC and use with SAP Lanscape Virtualization Manager (LVM) and vRealize/vCloud
- Use IBM PowerVC for VM setup and management
Which businesses can benefit from SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems Running SAP HANA appliances and needing a refresh
- Reduce scale-out sprawl
- Increase flexibility
- Obtain greater reliability
- Improve performance
- Consolidate
Running SAP on commodity architecture and exploring SAP HANA adoption
- Run virtualized datacenter
- IBM PowerVM and IBM PowerVC integrate seamlessly with OpenStack management tools
Running SAP on IBM Power and exploring SAP HANA adoption
- Database performance boost
- Easier administration and processing of vast data volumes
- Faster user response time for transactional processing
Non-SAP shop running on IBM Power
- Start taking advantage of IBM Power 8 and run more SAP HANA production instances than on commodity systems
