Hybrid Cloud and Storage tech drives Sustainability for HPE Manufacturing solutions

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The ideas of conservation, environmental consciousness and humanity living in harmony with the earth are not new, but the focus on sustainability is intense and at an all time high, with organizations around the globe reevaluating their IT practices to reduce their carbon footprint and contribute positively to the planet. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has joined in with its own sustainability efforts, but maybe more importantly, has been innovating to deliver solutions that enable customers to realize their sustainability gains. 

Cornerstones of HPE's sustainability initiatives include specific energy efficiency as well as performance density improvements. HPE produces systems that improve the ratio of performance to power as this delivers significant environmental impact from overall reduced energy consumption, which in turn reduce greenhouse gases. This reduction is seen both directly in more power-efficient hardware, as well as indirectly through reduced system cooling, reduced datacenter space as workload densities (i.e. number of applications per server hardware) increase, and reduced waste streams as the systems needed to run the same number of applications decreases.

Delivering Manufacturing industry Sustainability with better SAP HANA infrastructure

HPE has been a key innovator in SAP offerings, from the early versions of SAP, to SAP HANA, and new delivery models like RISE. HPE has thousands of customers running SAP on HPE infrastructure, with an estimated total of over 23,000 systems deployed for SAP.  HPE has been recognized by analysts as having the leading share of SAP systems installed, and has earned the ranking of #1 in terms of the ability to scale SAP deployments. HPE is delivering record-breaking performance with SAP now running on the new HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200.

HPE delivers SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) certified solutions across a range of systems, from easy-to-administer HCI up to the most fault-tolerant scale up data platforms on the planet. Along with proving that this infrastructure works with SAP, the TDI testing also provides data based on an independent third-party test tool, including a measure of SAP ‘node’ density per hardware system. The test output is submitted to SAP and is available for customer access online. 

Sustainability delivered through hardware power savings

The testing of how SAP runs on HPE hardware and specifically how many SAP application nodes can adequately run on a single physical system is at the heart of how HPE delivers a unique advantage in terms of superior SAP infrastructure economics, but also in terms of sustainability benefits. HPE undertook a study to quantify the CO2 savings delivered through SAP node density enhancements. The study centered on the use of the HPE Alletra Storage MP 2U chassis system. This storage platform can handle a variety of workloads up to mission-critical apps. It’s the industry's first disaggregated, scale-out block storage and comes with a 100% data availability guarantee.

The series of tests performed by HPE engineers established SAP node counts per system across the two most recent versions of the HPE Alletra Storage MP system. A relatively new platform, the team continues to evolve the hardware for increased performance and efficiency. Testing showed node counts per system up to as high as 120 on the HPE Alletra 9000.  When looking specifically at the HPE Alletra MP results, one specific configuration enabled a 50% increase in the possible nodes per system, which translated into a potential average power savings of 33% from requiring less hardware.

This savings in power saw an average watts per node drop from about 222 kW to just 148 kW, and though It may not sound like much at one point in time for one environment, the benefits of that enhancement add up. First off, that savings alone should realize an annual reduction of over 7 kg of CO2 entering the atmosphere. And when extended across the entire installed base of SAP systems running on HPE infrastructure, this multiplies to almost 1.5 million metric tons of carbon eliminated. That’s like taking over 300,000 automobiles off the road. And this doesn’t even consider the related environmental savings from less required cooling, related benefits of less required datacenter space, and fewer pieces of hardware eventually entering the waste stream.

HPE at Hannover Messe

HPE will be sharing its latest developments in the areas of Artificial intelligence and sustainability for manufacturing at this year’s Hannover Messe event. The show runs Apr 22 to 26, takes place in Hannover, Germany, and is the leading international event for the Manufacturing industry.

HPE has a presence at the event this year in Hall 15, Stand G76, where it will showcase related products, demos and solutions. Specifically look for displays covering Sustainable Manufacturing practices, Virtual Product Development, Private 5G and industrial connectivity solutions, along with AI solutions, and HPE Aruba networking offerings. 

Among the solutions that HPE delivers are some that especially help modernize Data Storage for Manufacturing. These include:

• SAP HANA for manufacturing—Leading ERP software with high-performance in-memory database, built on certified HPE Alletra Storage, HPE GreenLake for Block storage, integrated data protection, and backup ISV partnerships
• Virtual Product Development – Built on virtual desktop infrastructure technology to enable remote working in a high-performance virtual environment while protecting corporate IP
• Computer-aided engineering—Includes computer-aided design, electronic design automation data, stored in HPE GreenLake for File Storage, a new high performance scale-out file store
• Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) — Built on a high-density analytics cluster for automotive data processing, data storage for AI/ML model training/re-training, data storage and archiving

Here are some valuable resources to help you achieve proven sustainability benefits along with cloud-connected data storage management for your important Manufacturing workloads:

• Hybrid Cloud/Storage solutions for Manufacturing
• Accelerate Your Manufacturing Transformation with HPE and SAP
• Storage solutions for SAP and SAP HANA webpage
• 6 Reasons to deploy your SAP HANA on HPE GreenLake for block storage video
• Value of Persistent Storage for SAP HANA video

HPE works hard to set an example for corporate sustainability along with technical innovation, with one way being to engineer products that achieve new levels of performance within the same or smaller physical footprint and energy envelope. New cloud-connected data storage for Manufacturing solutions are available today for your most challenging industry applications. Click here for more info on HPE data storage solutions for manufacturing