Bryant also announced that SAP has certified HANA to support up to 6x greater system memory on the new Intel platform for 4- or 8-socket configurations over the representative installed base of systems available four years ago. More information about the immediate-term benefits of running SAP HANA workloads on the Intel Xeon Processor Scalable family is available at Intel's IT Peer Network site.
Additionally, exhibiting Intel's commitment to re-architecting the data center to support the future needs of a data-intensive world driven by the growth of artificial intelligence, 5G, autonomous driving and virtual reality, Intel demonstrated live for the first time its future persistent memory solution in a DIMM form factor. Based on 3D XPoint media, Intel persistent memory is a transformational technology that will deliver to the mainstream memory that is higher capacity, affordable and persistent.
With Intel persistent memory, Intel is revolutionizing the storage hierarchy to bring large amounts of data closer to the Intel Xeon processor, which will enable many new usage models and make in-memory applications like SAP HANA even more powerful. Intel persistent memory will be available in 2018 as part of an Intel Xeon Processor Scalable family refresh (codename: Cascade Lake).
During a live demonstration of Intel persistent memory at SAP Sapphire, Lisa Davis, vice president of IT Transformation for Enterprise and Government in the data Data Center Group at Intel, noted that with Intel persistent memory, in-memory databases like SAP HANA will be able to deliver even faster transactions, perform real-time analytics and accelerate business decision-making.
In preparation for next year's availability, software developers can accelerate their readiness for Intel persistent memory today with the libraries and tools at
www.pmem.io. Further product details will be unveiled at a later date.
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