HP demonstrated the first public working prototype of its Kraken joint initiative with SAP at SAP Sapphire Now 2013. A test system on the latest HP server hardware optimized to run the in-memory SAP HANA database for the SAP Business Suite, is a first step toward a system designed to provide customers with a choice that is capable of scaling to the highest levels with the RAM to handle very large HANA databases.

The prototype, running on 16 Intel Xeon processor E7 family CPUs and 12 Tbytes of memory, is engineered specifically for complex, data-intensive workloads such as supply chain, CRM, ERP, and data analysis. It leverages years of engineering and design across HP’s enterprise server business to create a system for customers who need the highest levels of performance and availability, where minutes of downtime can mean millions of dollars lost.

HP also announced a prepackaged, fully supported appliance for running SAP Business Suite software powered by SAP HANA s part of HP AppSystems. Designed to handle large amounts of transactional and analytics data residing in a single centralized database. It reduces latency and improves access to real-time, mission-critical data, cutting time for decision support analysis to near real-time in many cases. HP is making significant investments in rapid-deployment systems for SAP Business Suite applications. This complements HP’s current systems for SAP HANA and will help clients accelerate their transformations into real-time enterprises.

It backed this with the announcement of new enterprise services for the rapid development of SAP Business Suite software powered by SAP HANA and HP Enterprise Cloud Services for SAP applications. “Organizations deploying new enterprise applications need to be set up for success,” said Jules Beck, VP, Global Enterprise Applications and Mobility Services for HP Enterprise services. “HP’s deep portfolio of strategic cloud platforms and services provides clients with a flexible cloud model that maximizes the benefits of SAP solutions while providing data privacy and sovereignty, disaster recovery, and high availability.”

New services include:

• Application transformation services that provide the tools and proven methodologies to move and transform SAP applications to a cloud-based model.

• Deployment automation for customers who want to move their production portfolio of SAP solutions to a managed application model.

• IaaS services through HP Enterprise Cloud Services – Virtual Private Cloud for clients who want to lower their overall TCO and get the flexibility of a pay-per-usage capacity model based on their demand cycles.

• SAP Applications Platform-as-a-Service (APaaS) for customers who want application management support and maintenance, including support for configurations, interfaces, and master data.

HP manages the entire IaaS stack with an enterprise-class SLA that provides industry-leading high availability and the option for HP to manage the entire cloud stack.