SAP and NetApp Deepen Partnership

In an effort to accelerate the deployment
and delivery of database, analytics and application solutions, SAP AG and NetApp, Inc.
announced they are deepening their collaboration with the intent to support
next-generation solutions, including the SAP HANA platform and SAP NetWeaver
landscape virtualization management software.

By complementing database solutions from SAP with NetApp’s storage
and data management solutions, the companies are providing customers with a data infrastructure for SAP applications that can help drive competitive
advantage and reduces TCO.

Business needs and requirements change
frequently and on short notice, forcing IT to become flexible enough to expand
and contract IT and application services at a moment’s notice. Small
applications might need to grow quickly, while others need to scale down. In
this environment of IT uncertainty, some things remain constant. Lowering TCO and accelerating time to market remain business
imperatives. Therefore, companies are looking for flexible and efficient IT
delivery environments, powered by industry leaders, to meet business
requirements and propel their organizations to the next stage of growth.

"SAP
is recognized worldwide for innovation and providing collaborative business
solutions that help our customers compete and adapt to their fast-changing
business needs," said Rob Enslin, president of SAP global customer operations
and member of global managing board, SAP AG. "Expanding our partnership
with NetApp provides our customers with increased scalability and data
protection, while at the same time allowing for greater management of data
growth and adaptability to our customers’ changing on-demand needs."

Results
of Deepened Strategic Partnership
With the explosive growth of all types of data, SAP
HANA is enabling customers to analyze big data and make decisions in real time.
It is spurring productivity and new innovations, including the Cisco UCS with
NetApp Storage solution for SAP HANA, which combines the
Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) with NetApp unified storage systems.
This solution delivers scalability, simplified management,
and high system availability.

Fujitsu and NetApp have collaborated for
more than a decade, and the relationship has resulted in the delivery of appliances for SAP HANA and converged infrastructure solutions such as
FlexFrame Orchestrator for SAP HANA as well as traditional SAP application workloads.
The solutions can provide increased service level agreements and flexibility at
reduced cost.

With these technologies, NetApp is part of
the solution that supports customers running classic SAP solutions as well as
SAP HANA. The building-block-style architecture supports logically unlimited
scalability and offers HA for support of non-stop operations.

NetApp storage and data management
solutions, including the Cisco and NetApp-developed FlexPod, complement SAP
NetWeaver landscape virtualization management in the automation of routine
administration tasks; reduction of costs, hardware resources and power; and
simplification of landscape management of SAP solutions.