PRESS RELEASE — ARMONK, N.Y., November 7, 2016 – Today IBM announces that IBM has expanded the infrastructure choices for companies considering using the SAP HANA® platform to transform their business. Available immediately, companies can deploy up to eight SAP HANA production databases on a single server using the virtualization capabilities of IBM Power. This will help clients to more easily break down barriers of platform virtualization and deploy more SAP HANA workloads on a single server, offering greater flexibility to match a client’s specific needs, ranging from cloud models to balancing critical workloads.

SAP HANA provides enterprise application customers the ability to run their transactions in real-time, combined with real-time analytics to gain insight into their businesses. This includes workloads such as recording a sales transaction, notifying the warehouse to ship from inventory instantly after receiving payment for the order, while sharing real-time insights across all such transactions with decision makers through-out the organization. IBM Power Systems help make it easier to consolidate multiple SAP HANA instances in combination with other applications. This feature offers many benefits to companies, including:{ad}

In addition, Power Systems include the necessary resiliency to run SAP HANA in the most mission-critical environments. This is important as clients migrate their business-critical workloads to SAP S/4HANA®. The Power Systems predictive failure alerts and smart memory resolve potential problems before they occur and provide system administrators with early notification that an automatic resolution has occurred, avoiding system downtime. Power Systems leadership in flexibility and RAS offers:

“Kennametal very much values the reliability, flexibility, scalability and consolidation capabilities of the IBM Power Systems platform, which enables us to plan landscape growth and environment management flexibility as our operational requirements change,”  said Steve Parker, Director of Application Development at Kennametal. “If we decide to pursue a strategy of infrastructure consolidation and simplification, it’s good to know that we have a ready-made platform to support that.”

“Our clients are consistently searching for ways to reduce their overall IT footprint and associated costs without sacrificing capability or performance,” said Kathy Bennett, Vice President for IBM Systems. “With IBM Power Systems we’re enabling companies with the means to use virtualization to match their deployment to their business, and bring processing and data closer together to reduce latency and speed decision making.”