SAP rende più conveniente, più facile per i clienti di utilizzare Hana in determinati scenari

SAP has relaxed requirements for using its in-memory database platform of Hana for development and testing, a move that could make the operations of existing customer Hana easier and less expensive while also generating additional sales of Hana.

Rather than being forced to use specialized equipment to Hana, now customers can take advantage of hardware costs, including apparatus may have already in hand, according to an official blog post on Tuesday.

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Now, previous generations of Intel chip E7 as Westmere EX, which cost much less than most modern, can be used in non-production of Hana, says the blog.

Secondly, while SAP has recommended 256 GB of RAM per CPU to perform analytical workloads Hana in production, this will not be forced to test and development environments, according to the blog.

SAP has also relaxed the requirements for storage and network components in non-production Hana.

The moves follow other SAP efforts to lower operating costs, such as support for virtualization Hana customers.

SAP has reoriented its entire development strategy around Hana packaged applications ported to the platform, creating a PaaS (platform as a service) with it, and throwing a hosting service based on Hana. More than 1,500 startup companies are also developing software with Hana, according to SAP.

Hana became generally available in 2011. In its latest earnings report, SAP said that Hana had crossed the 3,600 mark reviews. But he also stopped burst Hana revenue, prompting some observers to question whether it had slowed sales.

Tuesday's announcements signal that "competition has finally arrived with in-memory databases and SAP is under pressure to ensure Hana is as cost-competitive as possible," said John Appleby, global Manager of SAP Hana Consulting firm red solutions and an SAP mentor, a title given to the members of the community more involved in the company. "I am sure that this is the beginning of a series of activities during the 2014 to reduce TCO by Hana."

While SAP is facing competition from in-memory database technology sold by Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and others, another factor that may inhibit the sale and customer confusion about exactly what to do with Hana, as a recent survey by the Americas SAP users group found.

Chris Kanaracus covers the software business and General technology breaking news for IDG News Service. By Chris ' email is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com

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