2003-06-25
HP collaboration provides ABB Germany with proven Applications in a Clustered Environment
GENEVA - HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced today that it had combined engineering resources with Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, SAP AG, the world's leading provider of business software solutions, and ABB to provide ABB Germany with an Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters production environment running SAP( R/3(on HP's Alpha/Tru64 UNIX servers. ABB, a leader in power and automation technologies, is the first customer worldwide to deploy SAP R/3 and Oracle's database clustering technology together.
Oracle 9i Database with Real Application Clusters is a high-performance and scalable distributed cluster solution that suits the needs of the mySAPÔ Business Suite extremely well. The solution was benchmark tested for performance by HP and the benchmark certified by SAP in June 20021. ABB had been testing it since October 2002 and went live in May. Highly scalable and highly available, the solution extracts performance levels that are significantly higher than the ones ABB achieved from its SAN before Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters was implemented.
“To support our varied lines of business, we have approximately 20 production systems running SAP R/3 that are accessed by some 10,000 users worldwide,” said Juergen Wingerter, Manager Solution Architecture, ABB. “Because we needed to increase manageability, availability and scalability and, at the same time, cut costs, we decided to see how Oracle´s clustering technology integrates with our SAP solution-based systems and fit into our overall hosting strategy for SAP solutions. Not only did the Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters test we ran in close consultation with HP, Oracle and SAP meet our expectations, we did not even manage to push the HP platform to its performance limits.”
“This success reinforces the reputation that the Alpha/Tru64 UNIX server line has earned as a high-performance, high availability and scalability platform of choice,“ said Karl-Heinz Cypris, Director Global SAP Alliance, HP. “SAP, HP and Oracle have worked closely together to develop and test all the features of the solution. This version was fully tested with Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on an Alpha/Tru64 UNIX cluster, delivering the high levels of performance that enterprises are looking for, and at an affordable price.”
Oracle9i Database with Real Application Clusters exploits modern hardware and software clustering technologies to provide the most flexible cluster database platform. Instead of having idle, expensive standby systems – as is often the case in SANs coupled with clustered servers – Oracle9i Real Application Clusters harness the processing power of all servers in the cluster. The computing load is dynamically distributed across all servers for maximum speed and throughput. Every server in the cluster acts as a backup for every other server in the cluster.
One of the enabling technologies for Oracle9i Real Application Clusters is HP’s Tru64™ UNIX TruCluster™ Server software. Its Cluster File System enables all files to be simultaneously accessed by all clustered servers. This vastly simplifies management of clustered storage. Moreover, only TruCluster Server software presents a single system image where the operating system environment is shared across all servers in the cluster. That way HP TruCluster Server software allows system administrators to manage clustered systems as easily as a single server. Key to cluster scalability, HP memory channel acts as the clusters interconnect between the Oracle9i Real Application Clusters nodes. It leverages high bandwidth and low latencies for fast communication and efficient messaging.
In addition to its Alpha/Tru64 UNIX servers, HP is currently working on having the Oracle clustering technology running on other mySAP Business Suite certified platforms in the near future.
The SAP benchmark was certified by SAP and fully complies with the guidelines issued by the SAP Benchmark Council. More information on SAP Standard Application Benchmarks is available at http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
About ABB
ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 139,000 people.
About HP
HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company’s solutions span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium business. For the last four quarters, HP revenue totaled $70.4 billion. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com.
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SAP R/3, mySAP and all other SAP product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries.
Other product and company names referenced herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development and performance of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP’s Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to HP’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2003, and subsequently filed reports. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP’s results could differ materially from HP’s expectations in these statements. HP assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Editorial Contact:
Nis Sørensen, HP
+49 (0) 6227 357 63 00
nis.sorensen@hp.com
Emily Armanetti
Hill and Knowlton for HP
+44 (0) 20 7413 3026
earmanetti@hillandknowlton.com
“To support our varied lines of business, we have approximately 20 production systems running SAP R/3 that are accessed by some 10,000 users worldwide,” said Juergen Wingerter, Manager Solution Architecture, ABB. “Because we needed to increase manageability, availability and scalability and, at the same time, cut costs, we decided to see how Oracle´s clustering technology integrates with our SAP solution-based systems and fit into our overall hosting strategy for SAP solutions. Not only did the Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters test we ran in close consultation with HP, Oracle and SAP meet our expectations, we did not even manage to push the HP platform to its performance limits.”
“This success reinforces the reputation that the Alpha/Tru64 UNIX server line has earned as a high-performance, high availability and scalability platform of choice,“ said Karl-Heinz Cypris, Director Global SAP Alliance, HP. “SAP, HP and Oracle have worked closely together to develop and test all the features of the solution. This version was fully tested with Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on an Alpha/Tru64 UNIX cluster, delivering the high levels of performance that enterprises are looking for, and at an affordable price.”
Oracle9i Database with Real Application Clusters exploits modern hardware and software clustering technologies to provide the most flexible cluster database platform. Instead of having idle, expensive standby systems – as is often the case in SANs coupled with clustered servers – Oracle9i Real Application Clusters harness the processing power of all servers in the cluster. The computing load is dynamically distributed across all servers for maximum speed and throughput. Every server in the cluster acts as a backup for every other server in the cluster.
One of the enabling technologies for Oracle9i Real Application Clusters is HP’s Tru64™ UNIX TruCluster™ Server software. Its Cluster File System enables all files to be simultaneously accessed by all clustered servers. This vastly simplifies management of clustered storage. Moreover, only TruCluster Server software presents a single system image where the operating system environment is shared across all servers in the cluster. That way HP TruCluster Server software allows system administrators to manage clustered systems as easily as a single server. Key to cluster scalability, HP memory channel acts as the clusters interconnect between the Oracle9i Real Application Clusters nodes. It leverages high bandwidth and low latencies for fast communication and efficient messaging.
In addition to its Alpha/Tru64 UNIX servers, HP is currently working on having the Oracle clustering technology running on other mySAP Business Suite certified platforms in the near future.
The SAP benchmark was certified by SAP and fully complies with the guidelines issued by the SAP Benchmark Council. More information on SAP Standard Application Benchmarks is available at http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
About ABB
ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 139,000 people.
About HP
HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company’s solutions span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium business. For the last four quarters, HP revenue totaled $70.4 billion. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com.
# # #
SAP R/3, mySAP and all other SAP product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries.
Other product and company names referenced herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development and performance of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP’s Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to HP’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2003, and subsequently filed reports. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP’s results could differ materially from HP’s expectations in these statements. HP assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Editorial Contact:
Nis Sørensen, HP
+49 (0) 6227 357 63 00
nis.sorensen@hp.com
Emily Armanetti
Hill and Knowlton for HP
+44 (0) 20 7413 3026
earmanetti@hillandknowlton.com