Red Hat Enterprise Linux now available across the entire SAP® Data
Management Portfolio
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced an expansion of the company's strategic
alliance with SAP AG to make it easier for customers to adopt and run
the SAP® Data Management portfolio, including the SAP HANA® platform,
SAP Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SAP ASE), SAP IQ software, and the SAP
SQL Anywhere® suite on Red Hat's open source solutions. The expanded
collaboration is expected to enable real-time, in-memory innovation by
providing an open, scalable, integrated and highly-available platform
for solutions from SAP along with those that are custom-built in an
effort to expand customer choice when it comes to fueling business
performance and helping enterprises realize increased value from cloud
computing and big data.
As the foundation of the enhanced partnership, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
is now available and qualified for production use of SAP HANA and
supported by partners' SAP-certified hardware solutions. SAP HANA
enables customers to capture business transactions to help make smarter,
faster decisions through real-time analysis and reporting combined with
dramatically accelerated business processes. Customers can now also
enjoy expanded choice when it comes to their deployments of SAP HANA to
experience the industry-leading reliability, quality and stability
offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They can also standardize
deployments of SAP solutions on Red Hat's high-performing, secure and
open platform, helping to ensure consistency of operations across the
business.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA is designed for easy deployment
and simplified integration, and will be available via SAP-certified
hardware appliances from partners. Delivered through the power of the
partner ecosystems of Red Hat and SAP, it is planned for customers to
now have access to an expansive portfolio of cross-industry experience
and expertise that harnesses the flexible, scalable and open nature of
SAP software and Red Hat solutions that are designed to meet a variety
of enterprise information requirements.
Enterprises seeking to leverage the power of the public cloud for their
data management needs can also take advantage of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux for SAP HANA and the broader set of SAP Data Management portfolio
of solutions, including SAP HANA on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
It is expected that customers will soon be able to take their existing
SAP license to the cloud and easily add Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP
HANA to their service mix on the SAP
Marketplace.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA is the culmination of SAP and Red
Hat's long history of collaborative efforts to enable joint customer
success on a global scale. Recently, in March 2014, SAP announced that a
team of technology partners - including Red Hat - had generated a new
world record for the world's largest data warehouse using the SAP HANA
platform and SAP IQ (1).
Beyond Red Hat Enterprise Linux support for SAP HANA and the SAP Data
Management portfolio, the collaboration between SAP and Red Hat also
includes:
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Continued collaboration around SAP Gateway technology and Red Hat
JBoss Middleware - Red Hat and SAP are also collaborating to
enable real-time integration of data from SAP solutions with other
systems by leveraging Red Hat JBoss Middleware solutions including Red
Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works and Red Hat JBoss BRMS, which integrate
or move business data across disparate enterprise systems. Through Red
Hat JBoss Middleware and SAP solutions, it is anticipated that
organizations will be able to increase process efficiency, stay
competitive, and adapt to quickly changing business requirements.
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OpenShift and SAP Data Management Portfolio Integration - Announced
during Red Hat Summit 2014, SAP ASE, SAP IQ and SAP SQL Anywhere
are now available as cartridges on OpenShift, Red Hat's award-winning
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. For use within the full
OpenShift portfolio, including OpenShift Online, OpenShift Enterprise
and OpenShift Origin, these offerings will enable developers around
the world to build the next-generation of data-intensive enterprise
applications.
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Fujitsu Power Appliance for SAP ASE - Announced
during the Independent SAP Technical User Group
(ISUG-TECH), Fujitsu will deliver this solution with Red
Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred operating system for SAP ASE in
the financial services market.
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Cooperative Support Agreement - As part of the long-standing
partnership between SAP and Red Hat, the parties' want customers to be
assured that the companies' solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise
Linux for SAP HANA, will run together optimally and be supported by
both SAP's and Red Hat's vast and experienced ecosystems.
Supporting Quotes
Arun Oberoi, executive vice president, Global Sales and Services, Red
Hat
"Red Hat is committed to providing the enterprise world with open
choices to help meet IT challenges of every nature, including big data.
We are very pleased to expand our relationship with SAP to offer
customers a flexible, scalable and open standards-based foundation for
their SAP solution-based landscapes, including those running SAP HANA,
SAP ASE, SAP IQ and SAP SQL Anywhere. By complementing Red Hat's open
hybrid cloud technologies with SAP's powerful portfolio of data
platforms, we, along with our vast, experienced partner networks, can
deliver high-performing, enterprise-class solutions that help solve true
business problems."
Steve Lucas, President, Platform Solutions, SAP AG
"SAP HANA, along with the entire SAP Data Management portfolio, is
designed to enable enterprises to accelerate business performance and
fuel innovation while retaining IT simplicity and customer choice. By
joining forces with Red Hat to enable SAP HANA on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, we plan to give our customers an additional choice upon which to
base deployments of SAP solutions; an open, flexible and scalable
platform that is intended to support customers' data management needs
across on-premise and cloud environments."
Sam Greenblatt, vice president, Enterprise Solutions Group Technology
Strategy, Dell
"The Dell PowerEdge R920 server forms the basis for the Dell solution
for SAP HANA, which delivers a stable, scalable environment to meet
changing business needs; the PowerEdge server portfolio more broadly
also integrates with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to enable industry-leading
datacenter efficiency without sacrificing flexibility or choice. Teaming
with Red Hat and SAP to deliver Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA is
a natural extension to our solutions, helping customers to drive
standardization across their infrastructure, reduce overall costs,
optimize performance and ensure operational consistency."
Alex Yost, vice president, Strategy and Alliances x86, IBM
"Since the introduction of SAP HANA, IBM eX5 systems have been a leading
deployment platform. Now with Red Hat, IBM X6 next generation systems
and SAP technologies, IT departments can lay the foundation for an agile
and competitive environment that spans not just across the traditional
confines of the datacenter but across the entire business. The
combination of IBM System x servers with X6 technology and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA is expected to deliver simple, integrated
solutions that can more easily scale, to help get faster time to value
from their business analytics, in an effort to fuel innovation while
keeping costs low."
Cameron McNaught, executive vice president, Solution, Fujitsu Limited
"As a pioneering SAP partner with hundreds of successful installations
of SAP HANA behind us, we are very pleased to add Red Hat Enterprise
Linux as a supported choice to our comprehensive portfolio of solutions
and services for SAP HANA. We are convinced that Red Hat's leading
enterprise Linux platform will help us to provide reliable,
cost-efficient and high-performing SAP HANA-based solutions for on-site
and cloud deployments, enabling our joint customers to make decisions
based on greater business insight."
Shannon Poulin, vice president and general, IT Segment, Intel
"With the continued growth of social media and machine-generated data,
datacenter customers demand more performance, less energy consumption
and more efficiency out of their infrastructure. Intel's family of Xeon
E7 v2 processors, when coupled with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP
HANA, help efficiently creates business value out of all this data. The
combined Intel and Red Hat solution is an open, highly scalable and
certified platform on which customers can also standardize their
portfolio of SAP solutions."
Tomoyasu Nishimura, general manager, IT Platform Division, NEC
Corporation
"We are pleased to see Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a supported operating
system choice for SAP HANA and plan to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux
for SAP HANA as a component of our own appliance product for SAP HANA.
By integrating NEC's Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SAP
HANA, the NEC High-Performance Appliance for SAP HANA delivers a
dependable and high-performance data platform for customers seeking to
address business demands like those associated with big data."
For more information, visit Red Hat in booth 715 at the SAPPHIRE® NOW
conference being held June 3-5 in Orlando, Fla.
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(1) The record was achieved using SAP HANA and SAP IQ 16, with BMMsoft
Federated EDMT running on HP DL580 servers using Intel® Xeon® E7-4870
processors under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and NetApp FAS6290 and E5460
storage. The development and testing of the 12.1PB data warehouse was
conducted by the team at the SAP and Intel Petascale lab in Santa Clara,
Calif., and audited by InfoSizing, an independent Transaction Processing
Council certified auditor. Customer results may vary and depend on
system configuration. Source: prnewswire.com
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