New SGI(R) UV(TM) for SAP HANA(R) Enables Real-Time Business for Large Enterprises

MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 16, 2014) - SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a global leader in high performance solutions for compute, data analytics, and data management and an SAP^® global technology partner, today introduced SGI^® UV™ for SAP HANA^®. It is a purpose-built, in-memory computing appliance for growing environments running the SAP HANA platform. SAP-certified and available today as a 4- or 8-socket single-node system with up to 6 terabytes (TB) of in-memory computing, SGI's new appliance is designed to enable the largest enterprises to achieve real-time operations and business breakthroughs with SAP HANA at extreme scale, helping to lower cost of ownership, while providing business continuity.

SGI UV for SAP HANA utilizes a unique scale-up, single-node architecture designed to deliver performance at unprecedented platform capacities. The simplicity of a single-node will allow enterprises to run applications free from the overhead of clustered appliances and reduce installation time -- there are no cluster nodes, cluster network, or SAN to configure and administer. And there will not be a need for database partitioning or re-balancing I/O when increasing the size of the SGI appliance. Operational costs are reduced, high availability is streamlined, and capacity can be increased seamlessly with near-linear performance.

"Large enterprises demand performance, simplicity and reduced total cost of ownership to achieve business transformation with the SAP HANA platform," said Jorge Titinger, president and CEO, SGI. "We are proud to bring our UV technology and in-memory computing expertise to enterprise environments providing an appliance designed to run simple and deliver the power of SAP HANA at extreme capacity. This certification marks SGI's commitment to deliver the operational simplicity of single-node architectures for greater scale to enable the competitive advantage that SAP HANA provides enterprise customers."

SGI UV for SAP HANA features the SGI UV 300H, a new offering in the SGI^® UV™ server line built for SAP HANA that couples seventh generation SGI technology and over 100 patents for in-memory computing with Intel^® Xeon^® E7 8890 v2 15-core processors. The appliance is certified by SAP at 4- or 8- sockets with up to 6TB of shared memory using 32GB DIMMS (capacity doubles using 64GB DIMMS) using ultrafast SGI NUMAlink^® 7 interconnects. SGI UV 300H architecture is designed to scale to 32 sockets and 24TB of shared memory as a single-node system. NetApp^® E2700 RAID arrays provide backup of data and log files in the event of power loss. The appliance arrives pre-configured with SAP HANA running on SUSE^® Linux Enterprise Server. It is deployed by SGI professional services and SAP offers licensing for SAP HANA and first-line support for the solution.