Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Towards digital transformation
Sandeep Kapoor, Senior Director"To propel companies further and faster towards becoming a data-driven organization." That has been the motto behind the three-decade-long alliance between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and SAP. Through the alliance, the company empowers its clients to be well-positioned to capitalize on disruptive technologies at their disposal, including Big Data, and cloud-native apps--turning ideas into reality faster scaling further from the competition.
Accelerating the Journey
Today, most organizations that are embracing SAP technology to manage their vast collection of actionable data effectively, struggle to utilize to its full potential. Enterprises are mainly concerned about finding a way to extract and analyze key data.
SAP HANA is a revolutionary shift in providing both business application and big data solutions, and HPE ensures an organization’s successful migration to a real-time enterprise
While SAP HANA has gained tremendous market interest and adoption, there are several challenges that hinder the journey to SAP HANA for customers who want to accelerate their adoption of SAP HANA such as infrastructure, achieving mission-critical enterprise-class deployment, skills gap in execution, migration and implementation risks and the need to balance faster insights against IT spend and TCO.
With over 2,500 HANA customers and over 12,000 HANA installations, HPE accelerates an organization’s SAP HANA journey through their computing solutions. HPE is the leading SAP HANA platform vendor with approximately 48 percent of the market. Across a spectrum of industries—the trusted alliance of HPE and SAP proffers comprehensive solutions that help customers to transform to a hybrid infrastructure through data center modernization, protect the digital enterprise using SAP software and services, empower organizations using analytics powered by SAP S/4HANA, among others. A recent report from prominent IT research firm informed that “HPE has top rank as leading vendor for Vision and ability to execute in magic quadrant for Integrated System”.
HPE possesses 3 kinds of deployment models to meet customer needs and optimal choice. These three models are Appliance, Base configuration, and TDI (Tailored Datacenter Integration). The first model i.e. Appliance is optimized for maximum performance, designed to meet stringent SLAs and run mission critical workloads, standardized and highly optimized for SAP HANA and also Pre-integrated and certified. The Base configuration is the increased flexibility of TDI but with simplified ordering. It has the same hardware configuration and SAP certification as appliance and its bare metal configuration enables custom OS installation as well. Lastly, the TDI (Tailored Datacenter Integration) configures flexibility within the framework defined by SAP. It also re-uses existing or preferred compute, storage or networking components.
Further, HPE offers enterprise-grade software to enable SAP HANA deployments to meet mission-critical requirements of the clients.
The industry-proven HPE Serviceguard offers mission-critical high availability and disaster recovery protection with automatic failover capability to ensure continued uninterrupted availability. The HPE consultant acts as your single point of contact to integrate HPE Serviceguard with SAP HANA System Replication, ensuring the solution is configured according to your requirements and aligns with HPE’s and SAP’s recommendations and best practices. HPE Serviceguard— as Kapoor mentions—can provide Smart quorum solution which intelligently handles quorum with workload-aware priority to avoid un-necessary failover, No other vendors offer this feature.
By combining SAP S/4HANA with HPE migration and cloud expertise, HPE has demonstrated its commitment to providing customers with simplicity and choice for their journey to the digital economy.
Thinking Two Steps Ahead
HPE in partnership with SAP offers service-led, asset-powered and end-to-end solutions. The alliance provides predictive solutions to problems that even a client might not know off. The team at HPE believes that they anticipate where the digital enterprise is going next, and is aiding companies get there quickly, with low risk. The team delivers future-proof solutions by starting each customer journey with in-depth assessment services and then backs it up by leveraging its unique full-stack approach—backed by differentiated choice—to move from idea to strategy to solution.
With over 3,500 dedicated HPE SAP experts and a customer-accessible robust SAP Center of Excellence, HPE offers services to ensure a successful SAP HANA journey for their clients. The firm’s services include preparing and planning, deployment and migration, supporting, and optimizing services, which allows clients to cherish the collective benefits offered by the most accomplished SAP partnerships in the business.
Riding on the wave of partnership excellence, Kapoor believes that the company is well positioned to lead the cloud computing industry through its portfolio of services and is intending to make the hybrid IT simple. As, SAP is shaping its vision for future by heading in the direction of IoT, it’s now pushing its customers into its next-generation cloud platform—Leonardo. HPE resonates with this vision of SAP and is thus working towards building a common framework and program to help customers steer into the future with Leonardo.
By combining SAP S/4HANA with HPE migration and cloud expertise, HPE has demonstrated its commitment to providing customers with simplicity and choice for their journey to the digital economy.
Thinking Two Steps Ahead
HPE in partnership with SAP offers service-led, asset-powered and end-to-end solutions. The alliance provides predictive solutions to problems that even a client might not know off. The team at HPE believes that they anticipate where the digital enterprise is going next, and is aiding companies get there quickly, with low risk. The team delivers future-proof solutions by starting each customer journey with in-depth assessment services and then backs it up by leveraging its unique full-stack approach—backed by differentiated choice—to move from idea to strategy to solution.
With over 3,500 dedicated HPE SAP experts and a customer-accessible robust SAP Center of Excellence, HPE offers services to ensure a successful SAP HANA journey for their clients. The firm’s services include preparing and planning, deployment and migration, supporting, and optimizing services, which allows clients to cherish the collective benefits offered by the most accomplished SAP partnerships in the business.
Riding on the wave of partnership excellence, Kapoor believes that the company is well positioned to lead the cloud computing industry through its portfolio of services and is intending to make the hybrid IT simple. As, SAP is shaping its vision for future by heading in the direction of IoT, it’s now pushing its customers into its next-generation cloud platform—Leonardo. HPE resonates with this vision of SAP and is thus working towards building a common framework and program to help customers steer into the future with Leonardo.
December 29, 2017
Hewlett Packard Enterprise News
TOKYO: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced that it was selected by Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) to build its next-generation supercomputer, TSUBAME4.0, to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery in medicine, materials science, climate research, and turbulence in urban environments.
Tokyo Tech is one of the world’s leading universities in science and technology. With the TSUBAME4.0 supercomputer, users will have the ability to train more AI models and run applications in computational science and analytics, simultaneously, to augment research efforts and improve productivity.
TSUBAME4.0, which was procured under the Japanese government procurement rules and was awarded to HPE Japan, will be fully operational in spring of 2024. The system will be based in a newly constructed facility in Tokyo Tech’s Suzukakedai campus.
TSUBAME4.0 will be built using HPE Cray XD6500 supercomputers, which provide maximum performance and specialized capabilities to run modeling and simulation workloads required for complex scientific research. The HPE Cray XD6500 supercomputers are also highly dense and purpose-built to support accelerated compute that is optimized to power AI, analytics, and image-intensive applications.
“TSUBAME has been supporting our research on cyclic peptide drug discovery, which is anticipated to become the next-generation medicine,” said Professor Yutaka Akiyama, School of Computing, Tokyo Tech. “TSUBAME has always been our partner in the daring challenges of achieving world’s first. It has been supporting reproduction of biophysical phenomena with hundred-fold larger simulations, and through exhaustive calculation on hundreds of cases has generated quantitative proof of predictive ability. With the significantly accelerated TSUBAME4.0, we look forward to its support in realizing intelligent drug discovery through large-scale molecular simulation and fusing it with deep learning technology in generating predictive models.”
TSUBAME4.0 will achieve a theoretical peak performance of 66.8 petaflops at 64-bit double precision. Additionally, the system will reach 952 petaflops at 16-bit half-precision, delivering 20 times more accelerated compute performance than TSUBAME3.0, its predecessor. TSUBAME4.0 will provide significantly higher performance to address the computational demands of many users, serving as a “supercomputer for everyone”.
“National research centers across the globe rely on supercomputing to drive science, engineering, and AI initiatives to understand complex phenomena and accelerate innovation,” said Justin Hotard, executive vice president and general manager, HPC, AI & Labs, at HPE. “Tokyo Tech is a powerful example of an organization that continues to invest in supercomputing and opens it to a broader community to enable cutting-edge research and new capabilities in AI. We are proud to continue our collaboration with Tokyo Tech and NVIDIA to build TSUBAME4.0, which features HPE Cray supercomputing innovation to deliver the massive performance required to augment Tokyo Tech’s ongoing scientific and AI-driven missions.”
Since the launch of TSUBAME1.0 in April 2006, the TSUBAME supercomputers have provided computing resources to global industry, academia, and government organizations as “everyone’s supercomputer”. GSIC of Tokyo Tech is the first university to adopt GPU-enabled supercomputers1, has gained recognition for delivering one of the most advanced, cutting-edge supercomputer centers in the world.