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Intel and SAP have worked closely together for years. But, our co-engineering has reached a new level of integration with the recent launch of our Big Data solution based on the SAP HANA® platform and Intel® Distribution for Apache™ Hadoop® software. The joint solution will be demo’d at SAP Sapphire 2013, SAP’s flagship conference in Orlando, held May 14 – 16.

 

Stop by the Intel booth #3215 and experience our Big Data solution.

 

The Intel Distribution of Apache Hadoop running on SAP HANA represents more than a typical collaboration. It’s a great example of how co-engineering can result in a “more-than-the-sum-of-its parts” success that changes the game by vastly improving the speed and resilience of Big Data analytics.

 

HANA is SAP’s blindingly fast database platform that consolidates transactional and analytical workloads into a single, in-memory process. Combining OLAP and OLTP structures into a unified landscape eliminates traditional relational limitations that have restricted the development of real-time business applications, and in particular Big Data analytics.

 

Apache Hadoop is the industry’s open source standard for managing Big Data, but to ensure that Hadoop’s data-intensive workflows can provide real-time analytics on an enterprise scale requires a comprehensive computing platform with muscle and intelligence.

 

The Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop is specifically optimized for the advanced features of SAP HANA and the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family. Intel’s version of Hadoop can leverage SAP HANA in-memory technologies to accelerate data analytics and also tap into extra performance and scalability that the Intel processor E7 family is optimized for. In turn, SAP HANA’s in-memory processes help eliminate the latencies found in Hadoop’s underlying file system to enable on-demand data analysis.

 

Through joint-engineering, SAP and Intel have delivered a breakthrough Big Data solution that can store and analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured data in real time. The underlying platform has the performance to scale to continued exponential data growth and deliver rapid-fire insights to help boost business productivity and profits.

 

For more information go to: http://hadoop.intel.com/resources

Intel has long blazed a trail of innovation for data center computing, leading the transition from mainframes to x86 towers to rack-mount blade servers, and beyond.

 

Today, Intel again takes the lead with the introduction of the Intel® Atom™ S1200 processor family, the industry’s first sub-10 watt server system on-chip (SoC) that builds in enterprise-ready features such as 64-bit support, virtualization technologies, and error- code correction (ECC) support for higher reliability.  The industrial-strength Intel Atom S1200 microprocessor is designed to power high-density microservers as well as a new generation of storage and communication equipment.

 

So why does the world need a SoC microserver?

 

It turns out that one size of server does not fit all needs in the enterprise data center. As the server industry continues to segment, Intel recognized the need for high-density, hyper-scale servers based on low-power processors that can deliver extremely energy-efficient performance within a highly dense-compute footprint. These characteristics are increasingly important for many data center workloads, but address the immediate compute needs of companies that offer dedicated hosting and private clouds, Big Data workloads, content delivery, and front-end servers for hosting web pages; yet still need to harness the horsepower of 64-bit computing.

 

Servers based Intel Atom S1200 processors also give data center managers a new tool for workflow management, allowing them to flex and scale hardware configurations to meet the needs of changing workloads. Because the new server is compatible with the most commonly used server OSs, applications and data center hardware, implementing the new server is straightforward, with no need for porting or tuning new software stacks. You can break up large and complex workloads, such as Hadoop algorithms, and run many small but highly parallel "chunks" of code for optimal efficiency and performance across a range of server nodes. And there’s no need to rewrite code for the new high-density server, because all the code that’s already running in your x86 datacenter will also operate on the Intel Atom S1200 processor-based platforms.

 

With more than twenty low-power server, networking and storage systems based on Intel Atom S1200 now in production, the processors provide a new milestone for optimizing performance with low-power, high density computing. Download today’s press release announcing the Intel Atom S1200 and learn more about Intel’s roadmap for power efficient, high-density computing.

Like it or not, consumerization is a fact of life. Your company’s employees are organizing their lives with smartphones, tablets and mobile PCs. And they expect those devices to help them at work too. If you don’t take steps to support them, you risk that they will take things into their own hands, including actions that put the security of your company’s data in jeopardy.

Luckily, the pieces are falling into place to help you take advantage of the employee productivity and satisfaction inherent in the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model.


Consumerization stretches IT along several fronts: integration, security, and user experience. Intel and Microsoft are collaborating on underlying technologies to help you optimize all three. In particular, they are improving access to the enterprise-driving SAP applications that really engage mobile users.


  • The companies are working together to implement hardware-based support for SAP middleware, including the SAP Afaria mobile management solution.
  • They are making it much easier to employ Intel-based platforms for popular SAP mobile apps, such as SAP Customer Financial Fact Sheet and SAP Interview Assistant. You’ll find these available by the end of the year.


These initiatives utilize hardware-enhanced security to make it easier to protect the BYOD enterprise. For example, your enterprise can already use Intel® Identity Protection Technology for fraud deterrence, Intel® Anti-Theft Technology to secure data and assets, and Intel® AES-NI encryption. As you see this technology rolling out in Intel-based smartphones, tablets and Ultrabooks™ – as well as traditional laptops – you’ll know how to enable each device as part of a more secure, integrated BYOD enterprise.

When your goal is delivering real-time analytics on a massive scale, it pays to work together – just ask SAP.

 

SAP and Intel have worked together for more than a decade, and the results of their joint engineering efforts have delivered game-changing levels of performance and scalability for enterprise application requirements.

 

SAP and Intel co-engineering has reached a new level of integration with SAP HANA*, an in-memory database optimized for big data analytics. SAP HANA delivers significant improvements – up to 7,976x better performance over previous systems across all project implementations– to help customers make faster, smarter decisions and improve productivity and profitability.  

 

SAP HANA is optimized specifically for the advanced mission-critical features of the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family, providing real-time analytics on an enterprise-scale. Performance tests on a 16-node cluster of servers demonstrated sub-second response times for thousands of simultaneous ad hoc queries acting on 100 billion rows of sales and distribution data.

 

SAP HANA running on Intel’s Xeon E7 family-based servers doesn’t just accelerate analytics. It also simplifies the underlying database infrastructure and operational framework for greater efficiency, helping eliminate the complexity and delays of traditional data warehouse loading processes.

 

The combined SAP-Intel solution is available in pre-configured appliances from leading hardware solution vendors; they integrate quickly with SAP applications to simplify and accelerate data access and analytics.

 

But the news—and the collaboration—doesn’t end there.


At SAP TechEd 2012, held Oct. 16 –19 in Las Vegas, SAP announced further advancements to SAP HANA,  unveiling details for a new cloud-based application development platform powered by the SAP HANA in-memory database, and also announcing availability of SAP HANA on Amazon Web Services, enabling the deployment of flexible cloud services in an SAP environment. SAP also cited SAP HANA momentum in the marketplace. A hundred start-ups have joined a development program for SAP HANA-related software, and over 600 enterprise clients are now using the SAP HANA platform.

 

And the SAP-Intel model for collaboration keeps evolving. Intel and SAP engineering teams have deployed SAP HANA in a new Petabyte Cloud Lab that provides 8000 threads, 4000 cores, and a whopping 100 TB of RAM in a server farm consisting of 100 four-socket Intel Xeon processor E7 family-based servers.  In this deployment, the cluster capably handles a single instance of SAP HANA across petabyte of data with near-linear scalability.  The jointly funded lab provides Intel and SAP engineering teams with a large-scale research and development environment for further co-optimizing products and technologies.

 

Read our white paper Scaling Real-time Analytics across the Enterprise - and into the Cloud to learn more about how Intel and SAP are working together to speed access to information and insights to bring greater success and value to our customers.

Several server system vendors are rolling out new Itanium systems that incorporate the latest Intel Itanium processor family member; the Intel Itanium Processor 9300 Series. I'd like to congratulate HP on the recent launch of its completely revamped Integrity server system line-up. HP in late April announced the most extensive re-tuning to date of their Itanium-based Integrity product family. There's been a great deal of interest about HP's new products from industry press, analysts and IT customers.

 

The new HP Integrity systems are built on HP's BladeSystem Infrastructure, with a new Blade Scale Architecture that simplifies the deployment and management of a number of blades in one enclosure. Even the highest performing HP Integrity server system, Superdome, is taking advantage of HP's new converged infrastructure, moving from a tower configuration to blades that plug into a blade chassis. Now customers will be able to take advantage of the legendary scalability and reliability of Itanium-powered HP Superdome 2 systems in a more flexible and manageable blade form factor. Now that's real innovation and value.

 

 

Go to the HP Integrity website for more information on HP's new Itanium Processor 9300-based Integrity server systems.

 

Go to the Intel Itanium Products website for more information on the Intel Itanium Processor 9300 Series.

 

Go to the Itanium Solutions Alliance website for the latest up-to-date Itanium solutions news.

HP is holding a global virtual event on April 27, 2010 that will introduce HP's vision and major announcements regarding their products and solutions for what HP is describing as the "next era of mission-critical computing".  The event will feature an overview session, some cool technology demos, and will include the presention of thought-provoking white papers.  Event participants will have the opportunity to share reactions to the announcement and ask questions through live expert chat sessions.

HP plans to share their perspective and some information about:

  • How to scale service-level agreements dynamically to meet business needs
  • Ways businesses and IT managers can capture untapped resources and react faster to new opportunities
  • Important methodologies and strategies to help reduce complexity in the IT environment
  • HP's recommendations about how to best lay the foundation for a converged infrastructure to accelerate business outcomes

As a partner to HP, I plan to join in; it should be a worthwhile event!

Registration is available at: www.hp.com/go/witness

You can also follow updates from the event on twitter at #HPIntegrity

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