Heinz crunches in-memory SAP data on the cloud

February 5, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from DataCenterDynamics. Author: Nick Booth.

HJ Heinz Company has become the first organization to number crunch its data both ‘in memory’ and across the globe, after hiring a migration specialist for its maiden cloud voyage. The food giant used Virtustream’s xStream to create a platform as a service (PaaS) environment on which SAP’s HANA in-memory database system could analyse masses of data quickly.

The company’s ‘in memory’ cloud system ran across its computing resources in 40 different countries. Heinz’s first foray in cloud computing has seen it roll out SAP HANA globally and, according to Heinz, ahead of schedule. Heinz said the exercise will give it a granular, real-time visibility into company performance, which it can budget for on a consumption-based billing model…

Bean-maker turns bean-counter

As a result of its pioneering SAP HANA in the cloud, Heinz claimed it can enjoy a 50 percent improvement in response times for its SAP production environment. Virtustream says the experiment showed that its managed service can offer SAP up to 65 percent cheaper when delivered as a managed service in the cloud…

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