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SAP HANA Gets a Cloud Boost
SAP continues to push its flagship HANA in-memory database platform higher into the cloud with a range of new analytics, cloud storage, AI and robotic process automation features aimed ...Full Article
HPE Gobbles SGI for Larger Slice of HPC-Big Data Pie
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today that it will acquire rival HPC server maker SGI for $7.75 per share, or about $275 million, inclusive of cash and debt. The deal ...Full Article
SAP Teams With Cloud Foundry, OpenStack
SAP, the German enterprise software giant, is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation and OpenStack Foundation open source communities. The vendor also rolled out at an open source convention in ...Full Article
In-Memory Boosts Oracle OLTP By 2X, Analytics By 1000X
With the lion's share of the relational database market underpinning the systems of record humming along in datacenters, Oracle cannot afford to let its rivals get too far ahead ...Full Article
Red Hat Finally Gets A Piece Of The HANA Action
Thousands of companies have dropped their relational databases and moved to SAP's HANA in-memory database and application platform, and SAP's own Business Suite application stack running atop HANA has ...Full Article
HP’s First Xeon Superdome Aimed At SAP HANA
The first of several systems that will bring technologies from Hewlett-Packard's Superdome Itanium-based machines to big memory ProLiant servers based on Xeon processors is making its debut this week ...Full Article
VMware Props SAP HANA Up On Hypervisors
VMware and SAP announced the release this week of the German software vendor's in-memory computing platform, HANA, running on top of VMware's vSphere 5.5 server virtualization software. The agreement ...Full Article
Inside SAP’s Own HANA Accelerated Systems
How much iron does it take to run enterprise application giant SAP? Less than you might think, and even less now that the company has moved all of its ...Full Article
Shared Memory Clusters Accelerate Databases
In-memory databases are going mainstream to accelerate analytics, and if the success of SAP's HANA in-memory database is any guide, then it looks like companies will be looking at ...Full Article
SAP HANA Wrings Performance From New Intel Xeons
The in-memory HANA database designed by SAP to radically improve the performance of queries and transaction processing has been a boon to the company. It is the fastest growing ...Full Article