Red Hat extends Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA® to the Open Hybrid Cloud

Red Hat, Inc. has announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the SAP HANA® platform is now available for customers to deploy across the open hybrid cloud, including via public cloud providers certified by Red Hat. The additions of new cloud provider partners through the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider program, as well as new SAP-certified hardware available from provider Hitachi Data Systems, provides customers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA with an extensive choice of deployment options for big data applications, from new hardware configurations to the ability to leverage public, private and hybrid cloud services.

Announced in June 2014 as the foundation of an enhanced collaboration between Red Hat and SAP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA offers an open, scalable, integrated and highly available platform featuring the industry-leading reliability, quality and stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA helps organizations make smarter, faster decisions; accelerate business processes; and enable consistency of operations across the business through standardization on the Red Hat platform, which powers mission-critical systems in more than 90 percent of the global Fortune 500.

Public Cloud Availability
With today’s announcement, customers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA now have the ability to harness the power of the public cloud through Red Hat certified cloud partners, including Virtustream and Secure-24. Enterprises will be able to leverage the stability, security and reliability of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform upon which to run their public cloud-based big data workloads. These newly-available public cloud choices deliver on-demand analytical processing power while helping to reduce the overall cost of extreme data workloads, all backed by the support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

New Hardware Configurations
Building on the solution’s launch momentum, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has now joined a growing list of industry giants offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA on SAP-certified hardware appliances. Hitachi Data Systems offers customers enterprise-class resiliency and scalability through Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for the SAP HANA platform, delivering flexibility and investment protection with compute and storage that scales along with customer needs. Hitachi Data Systems supports customers’ mission-critical applications with one platform that enables future data growth, minimizes risk, and achieves a return on investment quickly.

Demonstrating the continued collaboration around SAP’s in-memory platform using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA and highlighting the dedication of Red Hat’s partners to Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a foundation for big data applications, launch partners Dell, Fujitsu, and IBM now offer both scale-out as well as scale-up solutions. Dell, Fujitsu, IBM, and NEC also provide solutions for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA.