Working with vendor partners NetApp and SAP, Comstor, a division of Westcon SA, is enabling customers to accelerate the deployment and delivery of an agile data infrastructure for their SAP applications and infrastructure.
According to Comstor, the recent announcement by NetApp and SAP introduced a deeper collaboration of the companies around the delivery of next-generation solutions, such as the SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualisation Management Software. This collaboration will offer local Comstor customers the opportunity to further innovate within their database and data management environments.
“Companies are looking for data management solutions that promote innovation and agility, which will in turn assist them in driving their competitive advantage as well as reduce the total cost of ownership of these solutions,” states Andrew Hindshaw, data centre practice lead Comstor.
“To this end, customers want to see immediate benefits from their investments by way of lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) and accelerating time to market, all of which can now be achieved through flexible and efficient IT delivery environments, as evidenced by the partnership between NetApp and SAP.”
The expansion of the partnership between the vendors will enable Comstor resellers and their customers, to tap into a solution that offers scalability and data protection, as well as the ability to better manage data growth. SAP HANA is enabling customers to analyse big data and make decisions in real time.
It is spurring productivity and new innovations, including the Cisco UCS with NetApp Storage solution for SAP HANA, which combines the innovative Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) with NetApp unified storage systems. This solution delivers ease of management, infinite scalability and extremely high system availability.
“We are looking forward to bringing our local customers access to robust NetApp solutions around the SAP product sets, through a building-block-style architecture that supports logically unlimited scalability and offers high availability for support of non-stop operations,” states Konstantin Ebert, director, Channels & Alliances EMEA Emerging Markets at NetApp.
“Through partnerships we are giving customers storage solutions that are able to ease the deployment and management of environments for businesses running SAP solutions, while at the same time enabling our customers to transform their businesses towards hosting agile, cloud-based infrastructures.”
All NetApp solutions for SAP enable the acceleration of business success by leveraging agile storage. Specifically, customers can deliver impact faster, achieve non-disruptive operations and scale their solution without limits and without complexity.
“This is merely the first step of a relationship that will see extended collaboration between NetApp and SAP. Comstor customers will be able to take advantage of even more co-innovation between the companies, with particular reference to SAP database solutions as well as integration around SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualisation Management and cloud-based system management automation,” ends Hindshaw.
