Leverage HPE Alletra for High-Performance Integration with SAP, Oracle, and SQL Server

How HPE Alletra can be integrated with popular enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle, or SQL Server, enhancing performance and data management. 

Enterprise applications, the backbone of many businesses, provide critical functions such as data processing, analytics, reporting, and transaction management. However, they also present significant challenges for IT infrastructure. These applications demand high performance, availability, scalability, and security, often leading to complex and heterogeneous data architectures. This complexity makes data management and integration a daunting and costly task. 

HPE Alletra, a cloud-native data infrastructure solution, not only delivers fast, consistent, and reliable performance for any application, from edge to cloud, but also simplifies data management and integration. This seamless integration empowers IT professionals, enabling them to focus on innovation and business outcomes. HPE Alletra supports a wide range of enterprise applications, including SAP, Oracle, and SQL Server, and provides seamless integration with cloud services and data protection solutions. This blog post will delve into how HPE Alletra can be effortlessly integrated with popular enterprise applications to enhance performance and data management. 

HPE Alletra and SAP 

SAP is one of the most widely used enterprise applications, powering business processes across industries and domains. SAP applications have high performance and availability requirements, as well as complex data structures and dependencies. HPE Alletra is an ideal solution for SAP environments, as it delivers consistent and predictable performance, scalability, and resiliency. HPE Alletra is certified for SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver and supports both on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments. HPE Alletra also integrates with SAP Landscape Management (LaMa), SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT), and SAP Data Intelligence, enabling simplified and automated data management and integration across SAP landscapes. 

Benefits of the HPE Alletra / SAP alliance: 

• Get up to 3x faster performance for SAP HANA workloads than traditional storage systems, with sub-millisecond latency and up to 99.9999% availability. 
• Support up to 16 TB of SAP HANA database per system, with linear scalability up to 64 nodes in a scale-out configuration. 
• HPE Alletra reduces SAP HANA data footprint by up to 75% with deduplication and compression, lowering storage costs and improving efficiency. 
• Leverage AI-driven intelligence and automation to optimize SAP HANA performance, availability, and data protection with features such as workload prioritization, adaptive caching, and dynamic tiering. 

HPE Alletra and Oracle 

Oracle is another popular enterprise application that provides database, middleware, and application solutions for various industries and domains. Oracle applications have high performance and availability requirements, as well as complex data architectures and dependencies. HPE Alletra is an ideal solution for Oracle environments, as it delivers consistent and predictable performance, scalability, and resiliency. HPE Alletra is certified for Oracle Database, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Exadata and supports both on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments. HPE Alletra also integrates with Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), and Oracle Cloud, enabling simplified and automated data management and integration across Oracle landscapes. 

Benefits of the HPE Alletra / Oracle alliance: 

• Get up to 2x faster performance for Oracle Database workloads than traditional storage systems, with sub-millisecond latency and up to 99.9999% availability. 
• Support up to 24 TB of Oracle Database per system, with linear scalability of up to 48 nodes in a scale-out configuration. 
• Deduplication and compression can reduce Oracle Database data footprint by up to 80%, lowering storage costs and improving efficiency. 
• Leverage AI-driven intelligence and automation to optimize Oracle Database performance, availability, and data protection with features such as workload prioritization, adaptive caching, and dynamic tiering. 

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HPE Alletra and SQL Server 

SQL Server is another widely used enterprise application that provides database, analytics, and reporting solutions for various industries and domains. SQL Server applications have high performance and availability requirements, as well as complex data architectures and dependencies. HPE Alletra is an ideal solution for SQL Server environments, as it delivers consistent and predictable performance, scalability, and resiliency. HPE Alletra is certified for SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and supports both on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments. HPE Alletra also integrates with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, SQL Server Backup, and Azure, enabling simplified and automated data management and integration across SQL Server landscapes. 

Benefits of the HPE Alletra / SQL Server alliance: 

• Get up to 1.5M IOPS with sub-millisecond latency for SQL Server workloads, enabling fast query processing and transaction throughput. 
• Experience flexible scalability with 10 TB to over 10 PB of raw capacity and up to 96 NVMe drives per node, allowing customers to scale their SQL Server environments as needed. 
• HPE Alletra supports both block and file protocols, including iSCSI, FC, NFS, and SMB, giving customers the choice of how to connect their SQL Server applications to the storage system. 
• Integrate with HPE Cloud Volumes Backup, a cloud-native backup service that enables customers to protect their SQL Server data in the cloud with granular recovery, encryption, and deduplication features. 
• Integrate with HPE Cloud Volumes Block, a cloud-native block storage service that enables customers to replicate their SQL Server data to the cloud with instant snapshots, clones, and migration features. 

HPE Alletra provides a native integration with Microsoft Azure Arc, a hybrid cloud management platform. This platform allows IT professionals to manage their SQL Server instances across on-premises and cloud environments with ease. With policy-based governance, unified monitoring, and security features, this integration reassures IT professionals about the compatibility and ease of use of HPE Alletra in their infrastructure.

HPE Alletra, a cloud-native data infrastructure solution, delivers fast, consistent, and reliable performance for any application from edge to cloud. It simplifies data management and integration, enabling IT to focus on innovation and business outcomes. The value of HPE Alletra is further enhanced by its support for a wide range of enterprise applications, including SAP, Oracle, and SQL Server. This seamless integration with cloud services and data protection solutions helps decision-makers optimize their enterprise application environments, enhancing performance and data management. 

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