Posts Tagged HANA

Ellison Takes Aim at HANA, But Misses the Big (Data) Picture

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data on October 3, 2012


It’s Oracle OpenWorld this week and that means more colorful if factually questionable statements from everybody’s favorite egomaniacal billionaire CEO. And, not surprisingly, Larry Ellison’s target was archrival SAP.

“SAP has an in-memory machine, you know, that’s a little bit smaller than what we offer,” Ellison said at OpenWorld yesterday, referring to SAP HANA and Oracle’s own all in-memory database Exadata X3, which debuted this week. “We have 26 terabytes of memory; [SAP offers] 0.5 terabytes of memory.”

In case you missed his point, Ellison put it as succinctly as he could: “The HANA in-memory machine is, like, really small.” (Hat Tip to eWeek)

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The Finest Shade of Blue: #theCUBE @ SAPPHIRE 2012

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, CIO Perspectives, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Applications, ServicesAngle, Wikibon on May 11, 2012


SAPPHIRE, SAP’s annual mega-show, is just days away. Taking place next week (May 14-16) in Orlando, expectations are high for the German software maker and (now) database player.

At last year’s show, much of the focus was on HANA, SAP’s in-memory database, which promises end-users support for lightening fast analytics against large volumes of data. As I wrote then, SAP is betting the house on HANA, with plans to migrate its entire software and application portfolio onto the new database, as well as rolling out new, HANA-optimized analytic applications. SAP also declared last year that it intended to reach #2 in the database market by 2015.

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