SAP AG and VMware announced that the SAP HANA platform on VMware vSphere, for production use has been released to customers.
As per the release making the announcement, by combining the power of SAP HANA with VMware vSphere 5.5, customers can innovate and simplify their data centers 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.
“Our customers are evolving their IT infrastructures from physical environments to a software-defined data center 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,” said Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware.
The release further says, SAP HANA support of VMware vSphere 5.5’s virtualised environment will help further simplify and streamline data center operation for customers implementing a data center virtualisation strategy. It will also accelerate provisioning of new SAP HANA instances for production use.