New hardware, cloud partners offer solutions for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux for SAP HANA with the flexibility of on-premise, private cloud and
public cloud deployments
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the SAP
HANA® platform is now available for customers to deploy across the open
hybrid cloud, including via public cloud providers certified by Red Hat.
The additions of new cloud provider partners through the Red Hat
Certified Cloud Provider program, as well as new SAP-certified hardware
available from provider Hitachi Data Systems, provides customers of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA with an extensive choice of deployment
options for big data applications, from new hardware configurations to
the ability to leverage public, private and hybrid cloud services.
Announced in June 2014 as the foundation of an enhanced collaboration
between Red Hat and SAP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA offers an
open, scalable, integrated and highly available platform featuring the
industry-leading reliability, quality and stability of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA helps
organizations make smarter, faster decisions; accelerate business
processes; and enable consistency of operations across the business
through standardization on the Red Hat platform, which powers
mission-critical systems in more than 90 percent of the global Fortune
500.
Public Cloud Availability
With today's announcement, customers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP
HANA now have the ability to harness the power of the public cloud
through Red Hat certified cloud partners, including Virtustream and
Secure-24. Enterprises will be able to leverage the stability, security
and reliability of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform upon
which to run their public cloud-based big data workloads. These
newly-available public cloud choices deliver on-demand analytical
processing power while helping to reduce the overall cost of extreme
data workloads, all backed by the support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
New Hardware Configurations
Building on the solution's launch momentum, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)
has now joined a growing list of industry giants offering Red Hat
Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA on SAP-certified hardware appliances.
Hitachi Data Systems offers customers enterprise-class resiliency and
scalability through Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for the SAP
HANA platform, delivering flexibility and investment protection with
compute and storage that scales along with customer needs. Hitachi Data
Systems supports customers' mission-critical applications with one
platform that enables future data growth, minimizes risk, and achieves a
return on investment quickly.
Demonstrating the continued collaboration around SAP's in-memory
platform using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA and highlighting
the dedication of Red Hat's partners to Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a
foundation for big data applications, launch partners Dell, Fujitsu, and
IBM now offer both scale-out as well as scale-up solutions. Dell,
Fujitsu, IBM, and NEC also provide solutions for SAP Business Suite
powered by SAP HANA.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms Business
Unit, Red Hat
"By extending Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA to the public cloud,
we are providing a stable, secure and reliable platform for deployments
of SAP HANA across the breadth of the open hybrid cloud. These
cloud-based offerings, combined with additional certified providers and
configurations of hardware for SAP HANA as well as the scale-up and
scale-out certifications of our launch partners, deliver a set of
solutions to help meet the growing enterprise demand for big data
applications, all standardized on the world's leading enterprise Linux
platform."
Greg McStravick, general manager and global head, Database &
Technology, SAP
"SAP HANA enables enterprises to focus on innovation while providing IT
simplicity and customer choice. With the expanded support from new
hardware providers and cloud partners for Red Hat Enterprise Linux for
SAP HANA, customers have even greater choice upon which to deploy their
SAP solutions - whether on premises or in cloud environments, including
public, private or hybrid services."
Kevin Reid, CEO & CTO, Virtustream
"Our customer base is heavily invested in SAP solutions, and we are
pleased to now be able to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA to
our customers as a safe and secure platform for big data deployments.
This will allow our customers to standardize their implementations of
SAP solutions on a single operating system, extending additional choice
to enterprises seeking to leverage public cloud computing resources to
run their big data workloads in one of the most effective manners
possible."
Sean Donaldson, CTO, Secure-24
"Our ability to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA to
customers, provides extended choice of deployment platforms for mission
critical applications and the ability to have their implementations of
SAP solutions backed by the world's leading enterprise Linux platform.
Combining our cloud resources with the stability and security of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA gives our customers an excellent option
for their mission critical applications, especially those that require a
high level of security."
Jim Beckman, vice president, global alliances, Hitachi Data Systems
"The powerful combination of the robust Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA addresses enterprise
requirements and delivers desired business outcomes for even the most
demanding, mission-critical data management use cases. It provides the
predictable results; enterprise-class scalability; persistent,
high-performance data storage; and high availability that partners and
customers have come to expect."
Wolfgang Hopfes, Director SAP Go to Market, Fujitsu
"As a trusted SAP global partner for over 40 years, Fujitsu has
successfully helped thousands of customers worldwide to simplify,
innovate and grow. We are very pleased to now add Red Hat Enterprise
Linux for SAP HANA as a supported choice to our scale-out solutions for
SAP HANA based on Fujitsu Server PRIMEQUEST systems. These servers
combine the power of Intel® Xeon® E7 family processors with innovative,
fault-immune system architecture for high availability and business
continuity. The leading enterprise Linux platform from Red Hat will help
us to realize tailored SAP HANA-based solutions for on-site and cloud
deployments, enabling our customers to become true real-time
enterprises."
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