When SAP introduced its revolutionary in-memory database SAP HANA in 2010, businesses finally had a solution for running advanced analytics alongside high-speed transactions in a single system. Since then, SAP HANA’s customer base has grown to more than 33,000 global customers, making it an industry and market leader. Overall, the SAP HANA market size was valued at $25.29B in 2023 and projected to reach $104.33B by 2030.
With Oracle’s sunsetting of JD Edwards and PeopleSoft and more companies planning for IoT and AI, even more businesses are expected to migrate to SAP HANA to realize the advantages of digital transformation.
The business case for SAP HANA and HDPS
One given for any business using SAP HANA is huge spikes in data. SAP HANA creates a definite need for a storage strategy and Hitachi Vantara has an integrated solution that addresses your SAP customers’ backup and recovery needs. The Hitachi Vantara solution also helps manage data security, risk mitigation, loss prevention, and compliance.
Hitachi Data Protection Suite (HDPS), powered by Commvault, synchronizes and protects data and applications located anywhere on the globe and makes recovery timelier and more reliable. At SFS Group, a manufacturer of fastening solutions, the solution simplifies disaster recovery for SAP ERP applications running on SAP S/4HANA.
The manufacturer turned to Hitachi Vantara to provide its entire private cloud infrastructure, with all data stored and backed up on HDPS.
“Rapid backups and disaster recovery processes are crucial for us to maintain availability for our manufacturing lines,” explains Urs Lüchinger, Head of IT Infrastructure Backend at SFS Group. “Using Hitachi Content Platform to archive SAP data according to compliance and auditing requirements has proven highly effective and cost-efficient. For improved resiliency, we’re expanding our implementation of HDPS, powered by Commvault, to include in-memory business data from SAP HANA.”
The integrated solution is proven and tested for multiple use cases. For a quick checklist to understand if a company is ready for this integrated solution, ask these questions:
- Is the business migrating to SAP HANA or using SAP HANA?
- Is it difficult to protect and manage data backups and storage for SAP apps?
- Are internal resources for storage and security limited?
- Is the business considering AI, IoT, or advanced analytics?
An answer of “yes” to any of these questions, is an open door to discussing HDPS, powered by Commvault, with businesses running SAP HANA.