Interview video

Bull and Intel on meeting SAP's scale and sovereignty needs

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Overview

SAP customers are under pressure from several directions at once. In this video, Jan Krueger, Account Director and CTO for Team SAP at Intel, explains what those pressures are and how Bull and Intel are addressing them together.

Krueger outlines three forces shaping SAP infrastructure decisions today: migrating from the ECC platform to SAP S/4HANA, moving parts of the SAP landscape into cloud ERP, and a growing set of sovereignty requirements driven by the wider geopolitical environment. On sovereignty, he distinguishes between several dimensions that chief information officers (CIOs) and chief financial officers (CFOs) now need to weigh, including data locality, isolation, data sovereignty, and confidential processing of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads so that customer data stays secure.

Bull and Intel have worked together for decades on server platforms built around Intel Xeon processors, with development and manufacturing based in Europe. Krueger points to the BullSequana product line, powered by the latest generation Intel Xeon 6 processors, as addressing these combined requirements. The range scales from two-socket to sixteen-socket configurations, supporting up to 64 terabytes of memory, based on benchmark results Bull has published.

He also addresses rising memory prices, explaining how multi-socket systems let SAP customers trade capacity for density, using smaller memory modules across more sockets to manage cost without giving up performance.

Watch the video to hear Krueger's explanation of how Bull's BullSequana platform and Intel's Xeon 6 processors are designed to meet SAP customers' scalability, sovereignty and cost requirements together.

Key takeaways

  • SAP customers face pressure from S/4HANA migration, cloud ERP adoption and growing sovereignty requirements.
  • Sovereignty spans data locality, isolation, data sovereignty and confidential processing of AI workloads.
  • Bull's BullSequana platform, powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, scales from two to sixteen sockets.
  • BullSequana configurations support up to 64 terabytes of memory, based on published SAP benchmarks.
  • Multi-socket systems let customers trade memory capacity for density, controlling cost without losing performance.

FAQ: Scaling SAP infrastructure with Bull and Intel

The video covers three main pressures on SAP customers: migrating from the ECC platform to S/4HANA, moving parts of the SAP landscape into cloud ERP, and meeting growing sovereignty requirements shaped by the wider geopolitical environment. Together, these are pushing organisations to reconsider the infrastructure underpinning their SAP landscapes.
Sovereignty covers several dimensions, including data locality, isolation, data sovereignty and confidential processing of AI workloads so that customer data stays secure. These requirements are increasingly important to CIOs and CFOs managing SAP environments, alongside migration and cloud ERP decisions.
BullSequana scales from two-socket to sixteen-socket configurations, supporting up to 64 terabytes of memory for SAP workloads. It is powered by the latest generation Intel Xeon 6 processors and is backed by benchmark results Bull has published, showing customers can migrate or extend existing landscapes onto it.
Bull's multi-socket BullSequana systems let SAP customers trade memory capacity for density, using smaller memory modules spread across more sockets rather than fewer, larger ones. This approach, built on Intel Xeon 6 processors, helps control costs as memory prices rise, without sacrificing performance.

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