FD Insights Issue 10 | Page 39

SAP has officially released the first HANA on POWER BW-EML Benchmark. The results depicted in the below charts demonstrate the leading POWER capabilities for SAP HANA DB over current Intel based systems. Very impressive is the performance advantage by a factor of 2x when comparing POWER8 with the Intel processors on a per core basis. Following are some graphical representations of currently published 2 Bio records scale-up SAP BW EML benchmarks. IBM, the IBMlogo, ibm.com and System x are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries or both. If these and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence inthis information with a trademark symbol (®or ™), thesesymbols indicate U.S. registered or common law trademarksowned by IBM at the time this information was published.Such trademarks may also be registered or common lawtrademarks in other countries. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the web at “Copyright andtrademark information” at ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml 37 | www.firstdistribution.co.za