Achieving Better Long-Term TCO for High-Volume SAP HANA® Workloads

As the volume of data available to businesses grows ever greater, large-scale in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) and analytical workloads require a previously unseen scale of memory. A principle software platform for using data at this scale is SAP S/4HANA^®. Prowess Consulting examined three competing scale-up hardware solutions certified for the SAP HANA^® platform with memory sizes of 12 TB or more to determine the most cost-effective solution. Due to its unique method of scaling memory, we found that the Lenovo^™ Scalable Solution for SAP HANA scaled more readily, and to greater capacity, than any competing alternative. Such capabilities for scaling translate into a solution that is best positioned for a typical 5-year lifecycle. Moreover, the Lenovo^™ solution costs less upfront and provides managed services that can reduce operating expenses and complexity.