SAPアプリケーション向けのプラットフォームを強化するIntel

今回の提携は、両社間の長期にわたるパートナーシップの拡大を意味します。Intel and SAP struck a multi-year deal designed to help enterprises deploy SAP applications on Intel infrastructure and silicon on-premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments. The companies plan to collaborate in improving the capabilities of HANA, SAP’s in-memory database management system, by running applications on Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors and Optane DC persistent memory. Running HANA-based applications within Intel’s Optane DC persistent memory could reduce recovery times from 50 minutes to 4 minutes on a 6-terabyte SAP HANA instance, according to Intel. The deal marks an expansion of a long-running partnership between the two companies. “For more than a decade, Intel and SAP have engaged closely on developing differentiated breakthrough technologies that make organizations run more efficiently,” said Navin Shenoy, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s data center group, in a prepared statement. In describing new benefits of the partnership on a video, Lisa Davis, Intel’s VP and GM of digital transformation and scale solutions group, said “the more memory I have near my compute power, the bigger problems I can solve.” Early instances of the new capabilities are available to some customers on a trial basis today, and the technologies will be more widely available later this year, she said. “Nobody wants to take their systems down any more. We try to minimize operational downtime,” Davis explained. “Not only are we simplifying the architecture with this new capability, we’re simplifying the administration of the IT professionals that need to manage these massive databases for their companies.” SAP’s partnership with Intel makes HANA faster, more scalable, and resilient, said Chris Hallenbeck, senior vice president of database and data management at SAP, on the video. “This is the next massive jump because the inherent problem with in-memory systems for us with things like HANA was the restart time,” he said. “We had to reload memory and now we don’t do that. It’s instant-on for the most part and we’ve taken it a lot further. Rather than just say we’re going to take advantage of that, we actually rewrote HANA to natively recognize the different memory types.” Intel and SAP also plan to build a research center where employees from both companies will work with enterprises to demonstrate the combined capabilities of HANA and Intel-based infrastructure.