WHY PURE
STORAGE FOR
SAP SOLUTIONS?
The top 10 reasons why you want Smart Storage
Solutions to modernize your traditional SAP andSAP HANA environments

TOP 10 REASONS YOU WANT
PURE STORAGE SOLUTIONS
Effortless

Evergreen™

1. SIMPLICITY

7. SCALABILITY

Access true simplicity for SAP solutions

2. ZERO DOWNTIME, ZERO IMPACT
Modernize your SAP environment or run SAP HANA
with no downtime

3. HIGH AVAILABILITY (HA)
Obtain greater than 99.9999% availability for SAP solutions

Efficient

4. PERFORMANCE
Gain unprecedented performance for SAP andSAP HANA environments

5. DATA MANAGEMENT

Deploy only what you need, when you need it,with no migration

Even More

8. ROI AND COSTS
Realize higher return on investment (ROI) and lower costs

9. COLLABORATION
Benefit from the strong partnership between
Pure Storage and SAP

10. CREDIBILITY
Access a solution used by thousands of satisfied
customers worldwide

Realize rapid data management and dramatic
data reduction

6. VIRTUALIZED SAP
Make use of best-in-class virtualized SAP solutions// CLICK ANY REASON TO FIND OUT MORE
WHY PURE STORAGE FOR SAP SOLUTIONS? | 2SIMPLICITYZERO DOWNTIME,
ZERO IMPACT

HIGH
AVAILABILITYPERFORMANCEDATAMANAGEMENTVIRTUALIZEDSAPSCALABILITY

ROI AND COST

COLLABORATIONCREDIBILITY

EFFORTLESS

1. SIMPLICITYACCESS TRUE SIMPLICITY FOR SAP SOLUTIONSPure Storage all-flash storage can transform your business with simple, effortless, accelerated access for SAP and SAP HANA environments.

Quick and Simple to Install

Data Management in a Snap

Pure Storage takes half as long to deploy compared to other storage solutions. You canFast and efficient Pure Storage snapshots let you automate the copy, clone, and refresh

set up and optimize your Pure Storage all-flash array in hours, not days — no tuning orprocesses and reduce the time to copy, clone, and refresh by up to 90%.

workload-specific setup is required.
Snapshots also let you automate the backup and recovery processes, so you can achieve
The Pure Storage all-flash-array solution’s simple, rapid deployment has been fully

low recovery-time objectives (RTOs) and recovery-point objectives (RPOs) — withouttested, validated, and documented against other all-flash-array solutions by an actual

investing in backup and recovery tools!

Pure Storage customer.

50% FASTER
TO DEPLOY

Single-Platform Simplicity
Pure Storage solutions let you run dev, test, quality assurance (QA), production, andSAP and SAP HANA solutions on the same Pure Storage all-flash array. You can eliminate
the need to run mission-critical SAP workloads in silos on separate platforms.

Deployment for Pure Storage takes hours!
Deployment for other solutions takes days.

Business-Card-Sized GettingStarted Guide
The Pure Storage all-flash array’s gettingstarted guide fits on a business card! Andonce you’re up and running, you can enjoy
an easy-to-use solution with ongoing low“PURE JUST MADE EVERYTHING A LOT EASIER.”— Justin Stottlemyer, Fellow, Shutterfly

maintenance requirements.

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ZERO IMPACT

HIGH
AVAILABILITYPERFORMANCEDATAMANAGEMENTVIRTUALIZEDSAPSCALABILITY

ROI AND COST

COLLABORATIONCREDIBILITY

EFFORTLESS

2. ZERO DOWNTIME, ZERO IMPACT
MODERNIZE YOUR SAP ENVIRONMENT OR RUN SAP HANA WITH NO DOWNTIME
Zero Downtime

Zero Impact

Zero CompromiseWith Evergreen™ Storage by Pure Storage, you can access

You can run your SAP or SAP HANA environment on

Pure Storage FlashArray//m uses zero data footprint

the latest, most efficient hardware and software for yourPure Storage FlashArray//m without impacting your internal

to copy or clone entire SAP landscapes in seconds

single data platform and for transactional/analytical SAP

systems. You can run online transaction processing (OLTP)

and with no performance degradation.

landscapes with no downtime, no disruption, and noand online analytical processing (OLAP) solutions in parallel

data migrations.

on the same all-flash storage platform, which lets you run
your mission-critical SAP applications on a single platform
with no impact.

++ZERO DOWNTIMEZERO IMPACT

ZERO COMPROMISE“I MIGHT WORRY ABOUT THE NETWORK, ABOUT MEMORY, ABOUT PROCESSING. BUT I NEVER WORRY ABOUT STORAGE.
PURE HAS BEEN A GAME-CHANGER FOR US.”— John McConnell, IT Manager, University of Texas, Dallas, School of Engineering

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SIMPLICITYZERO DOWNTIME,
ZERO IMPACT

HIGH
AVAILABILITYPERFORMANCEDATAMANAGEMENTVIRTUALIZEDSAPSCALABILITY

ROI AND COSTCOLLABORATIONCREDIBILITY

EFFORTLESS

3. HIGH AVAILABILITY (HA)OBTAIN GREATER THAN 99.9999% AVAILABILITY FOR SAP SOLUTIONS
Get Six-Nines Availability
FlashArray//m delivers greater than 99.9999% availability, which means your data is always
available, always performing, and always protected — and with no performance loss.
• A clustered-controller design allows for the complete failure of a controller or anycontroller component without impacting operations.
• Flash modules, non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) modules, and controllers are hot-swappablefor continuous operation, even when recovering from a failure.
• A stateless-controller architecture means that you can simply unplug a failed controller,
cable up a new one, and your FlashArray is back to full availability — all without any
impact on performance.
Predictive support lets Pure Storage anticipate vulnerability to known issues and takepreemptive action to minimize downtime risk.

GREATER THAN

99.9999%
AVAILABILITY

Benefit from Support for SAP Consistency Groups
Simplified snapshots let you rapidly copy or clone entire SAP environments with zero data
footprint and no performance degradation. Pure Storage supports SAP consistency groups
to help ensure data integrity and consistency across all of the data in your systems.

“A HIGHLY AVAILABLE AND RELIABLE STORAGE SOLUTION THAT DELIVERS CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE DURING OUR
BUSIEST TRAFFIC TIMES.”— Dan McCormick, COO, Shutterfly

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SIMPLICITYZERO DOWNTIME,
ZERO IMPACT

HIGH
AVAILABILITYPERFORMANCEDATAMANAGEMENTVIRTUALIZEDSAPSCALABILITY

ROI AND COST

COLLABORATIONCREDIBILITY

EFFICIENT

4. PERFORMANCEGAIN UNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE FOR SAP AND SAP HANA ENVIRONMENTS
Accelerate Performance

Recover Rapidly

SAP HANA accelerates data — and Pure Storage accelerates SAP HANA and otherPure Storage snapshots are nearly instantaneous and extremely space-efficient — even

SAP solutions. So much so that with SAP software running on Pure Storage technology,

when data volumes are large. This allows system administrators to speed up the backup/

you can achieve the predictable performance of SAP HANA with traditional SAP

recovery process with minimal effect on production environments.

environments — even for mixed workloads.

10X

Accelerated performance for
SAP solutions compared totraditional relational databases

7X

8X

Faster recovery and failover times

Faster performancefor SAP HANA

Leave Latency and Delta Lag Behind
Pure Storage uses flash instead of disks, which eliminates the performance delays caused by

14.5 SECONDS

Time needed for a snap-clone-SID changewith Pure Storage — compared to six toeight hours with disk storage

the inherent latency of disk storage. With latency out of the way, Pure Storage can help you
run OLTP and OLAP solutions in parallel on the same all-flash storage platform — even for SAP
software. You can run SAP software 10x faster than on disk storage. And you can use the same
certified Pure Storage all-flash arrays to migrate to SAP HANA.
Once you’ve moved to SAP HANA, you can still enjoy accelerated performance — 7x theperformance of a traditional disk environment — with no delta-merge lag for SAP HANA.
A critical function within SAP HANA is the transformation of data from delta storage, whichis write optimized, to main storage, which is optimized for read performance and memory“FROM A USER PERSPECTIVE, IT [PURE STORAGE]
MEANS NO MORE SLOWDOWNS. AS FOR GENERALUSER COMPLAINTS ABOUT SLUGGISH RESPONSE,
YOU JUST DON’T SEE THAT WITH PURE.”

consumption. Query performance will decrease dramatically if storage can’t handle deltamerge quickly and efficiently. Unlike disk-based storage, Pure Storage all-flash delivers— Mathew Morgan, VP of Information Technology, Red Hawk Casino

no delta-merge lag, which means SAP HANA operates with maximum efficiency, andyour business’s responsiveness and agility can grow.

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HIGH
AVAILABILITYPERFORMANCEDATAMANAGEMENTVIRTUALIZEDSAPSCALABILITY

ROI AND COST

COLLABORATIONCREDIBILITY

EFFICIENT

5. DATA MANAGEMENTREALIZE RAPID DATA MANAGEMENT AND DRAMATIC DATA REDUCTION
Make Data Management a Breeze

Makes Use of Deduplication and Compression

Pure Storage snapshots make data management nearly instantaneous and extremely

Pure Storage solutions include both in-line lossless deduplication and compression forspace-efficient — even when managing large volumes of data. The largest SAP landscapes

ultimate data reduction. You can realize data reductions of 5 to 10x — 4x for SAP andcan be copied, cloned, and refreshed — and at speeds up to 90% faster than with disk-based

1.9 to 2.3x more data reduction than SAP HANA provides on its own.

environments. In addition, you can create unlimited copies of your SAP environment fordevelopment and to test as you increase modernization.

5–10X
90% FASTER

Times to copy, clone, and refresh eventhe largest SAP landscapes

Data reduction

1.9–2.3X
More data reduction
than SAP HANA alone“OUR ANALYTICS APPLICATION WAS BRINGING OUR HIGH-END DISK STORAGE ARRAY TO ITS KNEES. MOVING TO
PURE STORAGE GAVE US TONS OF PERFORMANCE HEADROOM.”— Jeff Geltz, CIO, Mattersight

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SIMPLICITYZERO DOWNTIME,
ZERO IMPACT

HIGH
AVAILABILITYPERFORMANCEDATAMANAGEMENTVIRTUALIZEDSAPSCALABILITY

ROI AND COST

COLLABORATIONCREDIBILITY

EFFICIENT

6. VIRTUALIZED SAP
MAKE USE OF BEST-IN-CLASS VIRTUALIZED SAP SOLUTIONSAccess All the Benefits You Need to Virtualize
You can run virtualized traditional SAP software and optimize SAP HANA when yourun your SAP solutions on Pure Storage. Pure Storage offers full VMware integration.
And Pure Storage supports all VMware data-management and data-protection
features — at no added cost — including:• VMware vSphere HA• VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (vSphere DRS)VMWAREVSPHERE HA

VMWARE

VMWAREVSPHERE
DISTRIBUTED
DISTRIBUTEDRESOURCERESOURCESCHEDULERSCHEDULER(VSPHERE(DRS)DRS)• Certified support for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager• VMware vSphere vMotion• VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (vSphere FT)FlashStack converged infrastructure for VMware vSphere is designed for virtualizationand is fully tested, fully supported, and fully customizable.

VMWARE
VMWAREVCENTER
VCENTER SITE
SITE
RECOVERYRECOVERYMANAGERMANAGER(SRM)

VMWARE
VMWAREVSPHEREVMOTION
VMOTION

VMWARE
VMWAREVSPHEREVSPHEREFAULTTOLERANCETOLERANCE(VSPHERE FT)(FT)“I DON’T EVER NEED TO USE A PHYSICAL HOST AGAIN. PURE STORAGE ENABLES ME TO VIRTUALIZE EVERYTHING.”— David Comben, Head of IT, Investec Asset Management

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ZERO IMPACTHIGHAVAILABILITYPERFORMANCEDATAMANAGEMENTVIRTUALIZEDSAPSCALABILITY

ROI AND COST

COLLABORATIONCREDIBILITY

EVERGREEN

7. SCALABILITY
DEPLOY ONLY WHAT YOU NEED, WHEN YOU NEED IT, WITH NO MIGRATION
Access Easy, Realistic Upgrades
The unique Pure Storage architecture is defined by software that is modular, stateless,scalable, field serviceable, and field upgradable.

Evergreen Storage capacity consolidation lets you keep your media modern and dense
as you expand. You can deploy SAP software on any FlashArray implementation — from
5 TB to more than 400 TB — without migrating data between storage arrays. And you
receive credit for the terabytes that you already own when expanding or consolidating,so you never pay for a terabyte more than once.

1X

Deploy once and upgrade as
needed for 10 years or more

Always Have the Right Size SAP Environment
Evergreen Storage, available with every Pure Storage FlashArray solution, lets you deploy
once and upgrade when you need for a decade or more. With Evergreen Storage, you’ll neverdeploy SAP software or SAP HANA on an undersized or over-utilized storage infrastructure.

Scale from5 TB TO >400 TB
with no migration

Start Out Right — Guaranteed
The Pure Storage Right-Size Guarantee gives you guaranteed effective capacity, risk freeand in writing, for six months.1 Get 4x better data reduction and efficient, cost-effective
storage without any risk of undersizing resulting from thin provisioning.

You can mix and match components online without performance disruption to keep storage
dense, efficient, and modern. Benefits include:• Annual controller upgrades and a free controller upgrade every three years
with three-year maintenance and support renewal• Continuous software upgrades and innovations

6 MONTHS
Guaranteed capacity risk-free1• Flat maintenance pricing“WITH EVERGREEN, THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY AND TOP PERFORMANCE ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO US.”— Alexander Ietan, IT Infrastructure Coordinator, Kremsmuller GroupWHY PURE STORAGE FOR SAP SOLUTIONS? | 9SIMPLICITYZERO DOWNTIME,
ZERO IMPACT

HIGH
AVAILABILITYPERFORMANCEDATAMANAGEMENTVIRTUALIZEDSAPSCALABILITY

ROI AND COST

COLLABORATIONCREDIBILITY

EVEN MORE

8. ROI AND COSTREALIZE HIGHER ROI AND LOWER COSTS

102%

Realize a Rapid ROIROI achieved in 14 months2

A Pure Storage all-flash solution enables you to replace legacy disk storage and realize

UP TO 75%

up to 102% ROI in just 14 months according to a Forrester Total Economic Impact Study.2

Achieve One of the Lowest Total Costs ofOwnership (TCOs) Available
The estimated cost per minute for SAP software downtime is $10,000 or more.
Pure Storage delivers the lowest TCO with Evergreen Storage for SAP solutions,compared to customer downtime with other all-flash arrays, because it:• Includes the Right-Size Guarantee that guarantees effective capacity, risk
free and in writing, for six months1• Helps reduce power, cooling, management, and space expenses

Reduction in SAP HANA costs whenusing SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering3<2 SECONDS

Impact on performance when using SAP
HANA Dynamic Tiering for cost savings3

Reduce SAP HANA Costs
When you run SAP HANA on a Pure Storage all-flash solution and use SAP HANA Dynamic
Tiering for warm data, it’s possible to reduce overall costs up to 75% (about $2.5 million).

• Gives you continuous access to the latest storage infrastructure without added costs

And that can be done with minimal impact on performance — less than two seconds• Offers automated built-in backup and restore capabilities to reduce the needfor added software:for 500 million records.3• Traditional backup/restore software solutions are costly

Use Your Existing Hardware• Pure Storage snapshots are a simple, cost-effective way ofcreating full SAP application backups

With Pure Storage, you can use your existing hardware and infrastructure components foryour SAP HANA environment. All Pure Storage solutions are certified in the SAP HANA
Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI).

“PURE SAVES A LOT OF MONEY, A LOT OF POWER, AND A LOT OF COMPLEXITY.”— Sasha Kipervarg, Senior Manager, Workday

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SIMPLICITYZERO DOWNTIME,
ZERO IMPACT

HIGH
AVAILABILITYPERFORMANCEDATAMANAGEMENTVIRTUALIZEDSAPSCALABILITY

ROI AND COST

COLLABORATIONCREDIBILITY

EVEN MORE

9. COLLABORATIONBENEFIT FROM THE STRONG PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN PURE STORAGE AND SAP
Benefit from Collaboration
Pure Storage is an SAP PartnerEdge program member, an SAP Application Development
partner, and has completed qualification with the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform
under the Certified Enterprise Storage program.

All Pure Storage FlashArray families are certified for SAP HANA TDI.4 Pure Storage also
supports SAP solutions running Sybase, Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Pure Storage develops and tests joint solutions and use cases at SAP’s Co-Innovation
Labs (COIL); and it is an active member of the Americas SAP Users Group (ASUG).

“PERFORMANCE IS CRITICAL IN THESE ENVIRONMENTS, AND SAP-CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS LIKE PURE STORAGE GIVE
CUSTOMERS THE OPTION TO DEPLOY HIGH-PERFORMANCE FLASH ARRAYS WITH CONFIDENCE.”— Eric Burgener, Research Director, IDC

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ZERO IMPACTHIGH
AVAILABILITYPERFORMANCEDATAMANAGEMENTVIRTUALIZEDSAPSCALABILITY

ROI AND COST

COLLABORATIONCREDIBILITY

EVEN MORE

10. CREDIBILITYACCESS A SOLUTION USED BY THOUSANDS OF SATISFIED CUSTOMERS WORLDWIDE
Don’t Take Our Word for It, Take Our Customers’ Words

Consider a 2016 Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 83.5

More than 2,000 customers deploy and run mission-critical SAP instances andWith a Satmetrix 2016 NPS of 83.5, Pure Storage is the number one recommended

landscapes — traditional SAP software and SAP HANA solutions with Pure Storage.

technology vendor by a wide margin in the top 1% of audited scores.5

16

GLOBAL HIGH-TECH AVERAGE

83.5

PURE STORAGE

Find customer success stories at www.purestorage.com/customers.html.

APPLE IPHONE64(As measured by Satmetrix 2016 NPS Global B2B Benchmarks.)“WE JUST DON’T WORRY ABOUT STORAGE ANYMORE. THE PURE SYSTEM IS SO EASY TO USE AND MAINTAIN THATWE DON’T EVEN NEED A STORAGE ADMINISTRATOR. WE’RE ABLE TO PUT OUR RESOURCES TO BETTER USE AND
FOCUS ON OTHER, MORE STRATEGIC THINGS.”— Argenis Fernandez, Lead of Database Operations, SurveyMonkey

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Pure Storage offers an all-flash point-storage solution, called
FlashArray//m, and a converged-infrastructure solution,
called FlashStack, which includes FlashArray//m alongwith additional networking components.
GET STARTED IN A FLASHWITH PURE STORAGE
Call or email using the link below to talk with the PureStorage sales team or a Pure Storage SAP specialist andto request a demonstration of FlashArray//m in action.
800-379-PURE (7873) // sales@purestorage.com

1Pure Storage. “Introducing the Newly Expanded Evergreen Storage – Guaranteed Capacity That Stays Modern and Dense.”
June 2016. http://blog.purestorage.com/introducing-the-newly-expanded-evergreen-storage-guaranteed-capacitythat-stays-modern-and-dense/.

2Forrester. “The Total Economic Impact™ of Pure Storage FlashArray FA-400 Series Storage Solutions: Cost Savings andBusiness Benefits Attributed to Pure Storage.” August 2014. http://www.purestorage.com/content/dam/purestorage/
pdf/AnalystReport/Pure%20Storage%20-%20TEI%20Case%20Study.pdf.

3Assuming a hardware, software, and licensing cost of over $2,484,000 with 100 percent of data in SAP HANA andhardware cost savings based on additional memory and CPU requirements and assumed license cost of 159,000 per
64 GB for SAP HANA Enterprise Edition and Maintenance. Savings increase with more data stored in and queried fromSAP HANA Dynamic Tiering. “Lower Costs and Comparable Performance Justify Migrating to SAP HANA Sooner”
http://www.purestorage.com//content/dam/purestorage/pdf/whitepapers/PureStorage_SAP_HANA_Dynamic_Tiering_WP.pdf.

4SAP. “Find Certified Enterprise Storage.” http://global.sap.com/community/ebook/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/
enEN/enterprise-storage.html#page=1.

5“Pure Storage Announces Industry-Best Satmetrix Net Promoter Score of 83.5,” Pure Storage Blog,
http://blog.purestorage.com/pure-storage-announces-industry-best-net-promoter-score-of-83-5/

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