Virtustream adds Virtualised SAP HANA® for production environments

Virtustream provides the most comprehensive SAP cloud services worldwide, supporting the migration and operation of full SAP production (and non-production / test and development) environments in the cloud, dedicated SAP HANA services and offering virtual SAP HANA for non-production environments. Now Virtustream’s customers can take advantage of fully virtualised SAP HANA production in the cloud and gain all the benefits of Virtustream’s xStream™ Enterprise Cloud platform. These benefits include: market-leading performance SLAs, multi-tenant efficiency, rapid deployment, utility-based billing, hardware cost avoidance, built-in disaster recovery, high availability, and greatly simplified provisioning and operation. In addition, all Virtustream customers are protected by the company’s industry-leading security and compliance tools and processes to ensure proper protection of data in a cloud environment. Virtustream’s cloud complies with HIPAA, PCI, FISMA, ISO 27000, SSAE and SOX standards, while supporting many more.

SAP and Virtustream have a longstanding relationship, with SAP being a trusted partner and investor. Virtustream has more than 100 SAP clients running production SAP on the Virtustream cloud or using its software in private clouds, including well-known brands such as Domino Foods, Veyance Technologies and Morris Communications. Virtustream’s underlying Micro-VMTM (µVM) technology makes it possible for IT expenses to be efficiently reduced, offering consumption-based pricing and eliminating upfront capital expenditure while improving overall performance of the applications. As a result, customers are able to move to any production and mission-critical enterprise applications to the cloud without re-engineering and combine on-site and cloud-based operations as required.

Virtustream has a long history of innovation for SAP and SAP HANA in the cloud including:
· Virtustream deployed the first production SAP customer in a multi-tenant cloud and the first production SAP ERP running on HANA in the cloud.
· Virtustream is a member of SAP Cloud Technology Advisory Board and the SAP Cloud Benchmarking Group.
· Virtustream was among the first cloud service providers to join “Powered by HANA Service Provider Partner” programme for select certified SAP partners announced earlier this year. As part of the participation in the programme, Virtustream and SAP have jointly developed an SAP HANA Reference Architecture. This Cloud Reference Architecture, which includes Virtustream’s xStream cloud management software, is a model for deploying complex heterogeneous IT environments, either from a cloud service provider like Virtustream or on-premise in a customer’s data centre.

“We are very excited to announce support for production SAP HANA for enterprises wanting to deploy this technology on virtual machines in production,” said Michael Hoch, SVP Advisory Services at Virtustream. “We look forward to assisting our enterprise customers to realise the enormous benefits of SAP HANA when running their organisation’s SAP applications on the Virtustream cloud, for greater resource efficiency and infrastructure cost savings.”