SAP and VMware have entered a partnership to empower enterprises to innovate, simplify and move towards a software-defined data centre architecture.
The companies revealed that the SAP HANA platform on VMware vSphere 5.5 for production use has been released.
In a statement, the companies say by combining the power of SAP HANA with VMware vSphere 5.5, a foundational component of VMware vCloud Suite, enterprises can innovate and simplify their data centres by achieving faster time-to-value, higher service levels and lower total cost of ownership.
They add that SAP HANA support of VMware vSphere 5.5's virtualised environment will help further simplify and streamline data centre operation for organisations implementing a data centre virtualisation strategy.
It will also accelerate provisioning of new SAP HANA instances for production use, they note, adding that SAP HANA customers can benefit from increased infrastructure utilisation, agility and productivity with the combined solution.
In an interview with ITWeb, Guy Martin, VMware's EMEA director of strategic alliances, said that SAP and VMware have been partners for seven years and the latest announcement was a solidification of the alliance.
SAP and VMware intend to continue their strong collaboration and deliver more advanced capabilities of SAP HANA on virtualised environments providing more deployment options to SAP HANA, he explained.
The partnership will be beneficial to South African organisations as they make the journey from physical environments to the software-defined data centre, said Martin. He also noted that there has been a lot of interest from local companies around making that transition.
"SAP HANA has led the market as the real-time enterprise platform by driving IT simplicity and by enabling breakthrough innovations for business," says 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 centres and ultimately to the cloud," adds Leukert.
Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO, says enterprises are evolving their IT infrastructures from physical environments to a software-defined data centre architecture and they are looking for solutions that provide agility, high availability, elasticity, efficiency and control for their most mission-critical and demanding in-production enterprise environments.
"The SAP and VMware partnership is truly transformative. We are delighted to further extend that partnership and answer those customer needs by certifying SAP HANA for production use on VMware vSphere 5.5," says Gelsinger.
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