SAP And VMware Announce SAP HANA® for Production Use On VMware vSphere 5.5
Customers can now gain the combined benefits of in-memory computing with virtualization.
SAP AG is extending its partnership to empower customers to innovate, simplify, and move toward a software-defined data center architecture (SDDC). To this end, SAP and VMware today announced the SAP HANA® platform on VMware vSphere® 5.5 for production use has been released to customers. By combining the power of SAP HANA with VMware vSphere 5.5, a foundational component of VMware vCloud® Suite, customers can innovate and simplify their datacenters by achieving faster time-to-value, higher service levels and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
“SAP HANA has led the market as the real-time enterprise platform by driving IT simplicity and by enabling breakthrough innovations for business,” said Bernd Leukert, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG. “Together with VMware, we are enabling customers to operate their SAP HANA-based mission-critical applications in virtual environments with confidence and to accelerate their journey to software-defined data centers and ultimately to the cloud.”