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IBM will host SAP’s HANA Enterprise Cloud on its global data centers, it was announced today. Big Blue reckons this means customers can run managed SAP workloads in the cloud from testing to production on a single, consistent architecture partly powered by IBM-owned SoftLayer. HANA is SAP’s in-memory database that sits …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    "253,500 customers with 750 on HANA with the majority using HANA on-premises"

    Is that HANA OLTP or just HANA anywhere for anything? It seems like HANA anywhere for anything has to be higher than 750, but maybe not.... Practically no one uses HANA for OLTP, that is true. It doesn't really make sense for OLTP as you need to write to persistent state, which negates the value of having it in memory.

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  2. Fenton

    It is write persistant

    Hana is write persistent, it writes down to SSD as well as being in memory.

    The whole of the SAP business suite is on Hana that includes ERP.

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