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Pure Storage flashes SAP credentials for HANA platform

But why would you need external storage?

Pure Storage is flashing its SAP Credentials in the enterprise with news it’s certified for HANA, the in-memory database for SAPpers.

Formally, Pure’s FlashArray 400 Series is certified by SAP as storage for its HANA platform, meaning

HANA offers database, transaction, query and analytics processing in-memory, with no need to access an external storage array. So why is one, like Pure’s FlashArray 400, needed?

When HANA starts, the first access to a table causes the entire table to be read in from external storage and loaded into memory. HANA background processes look after log files and long-term external storage.

Having the external storage be a flash array means that it is more responsive to IO requests and gets the background processes completing faster. Existing Pure customers who are using or plan to use HANA can now have the FlashArray be its external store. Happy Pure now gets a HANA look-in. ®

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