New SGI(R) UV(TM) for SAP HANA(R) Enables Real-Time Business for Large Enterprises - Seite 2

Sigma-Aldrich Chooses SGI UV for SAP HANA
Life science and technology company Sigma-Aldrich Corporation selected SGI UV for SAP HANA to power its SAP HANA-based environment, enabling employees to better perform real-time analysis and proactively manage its 270,000 chemicals, biochemicals and other essential products for over 1.4 million scientists and technologists. Sigma-Aldrich will deploy 24 appliances of SGI UV for SAP HANA to support high availability and disaster recovery configurations spanning multiple data centers. In total, these solutions deliver 50-plus TB of in-memory compute power to run all SAP HANA-based enterprise applications. Seamless high availability and disaster recovery capabilities will help provide mission-critical data and workloads with an additional appliance.

"With operations in 37 countries and one of the leading life science e-commerce platforms in the industry, Sigma-Aldrich supports millions of researchers around the world in its quest to enhance the quality of life," said Silji Abraham, vice president and chief information officer at Sigma-Aldrich. "Our goal is simply to transform into a true, real-time enterprise by leveraging the immense computing power of SAP HANA for all transaction and analytic systems. At the heart of this transformation is the desire to provide best-in-class products and solutions to our customers around the world to help them accelerate their research and find solutions."

Abraham continued, "SGI has offered us a unique scale-up technology for SAP HANA beyond the normal limits. This allows us to realize our vision of transforming our entire enterprise to a 'real-time enterprise,' without worrying about our ability to support the exponential growth of big data."

"We welcome the availability of the new SGI UV for SAP HANA to the market," said Steve Lucas, president, Platform Solutions, SAP. "We look forward to working with SGI to further enable large enterprise customers to gain the real-time benefits of SAP HANA across the breadth and depth of their enterprises."

"SGI brings 20 years of expertise and industry leadership in large-scale, in-memory computing," said Earl Joseph, program vice president at IDC. "Their scale-up, single-node architecture is a significant addition to the appliances SAP-certified for SAP HANA. It provides a solid growth path for large, performance-intensive deployments and can greatly enhance operational efficiency."