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United VARs Selects Symmetry to Provide Global Cloud Platform for SAP HANA

DGAP-Media / 16.05.2017 / 13:32 All for One Steeb AG: United VARs Selects Symmetry to Provide Global Cloud Platform for SAP HANA

Symmetry to Provide Next Generation, Secure and Scalable SAP HANA(R) Cloud Hosting Services for United VARs Customers in over 80 countries

Filderstadt, Ratingen, Germany ( 16 May 2017 ( United VARs, the world's largest alliance of SAP(R) channel partners, today announced it has selected Symmetry as its worldwide infrastructure partner for the United VARs Cloud Solution for SAP HANA(R), a globally connected cloud hosting platform engineered specifically for mission-critical enterprise SAP applications. Symmetry brings more than 22 years of SAP expertise to host and manage deployments of the United VARs Cloud Solution for SAP HANA on its expanding global cloud platform.

The United VARs Cloud Solution for SAP HANA will offer its embedded base of over 8,000 customers a cohesive cloud services platform for SAP HANA and SAP applications, including disaster recovery, state-of-the-art monitoring and 99.999% uptime Service Level Agreements. The purpose-built, high-performance cloud architecture provides self-healing features at the storage, compute, security and network levels; a user portal; proactive monitoring of hosted environments; and 24x7x365 global support. With United VARs' and Symmetry's deep SAP expertise, customers can more effectively manage cost and complexity concerns associated with migrating legacy SAP applications to the new SAP HANA architecture and tuning both traditional SAP and SAP HANA environments for optimal performance.

"There are serious capital and operational expense considerations when migrating to SAP HANA on-premise, due to the system's need for a complete hardware and architectural upgrade as well as new management software and skills," said William Fellows, Founder and Research VP, 451 Research. "451 Research believes the cost and complexity of on-premise SAP HANA implementation will accelerate SAP customer migration to the cloud."