Lenovo, SAP Partner to Bring HANA-Based Cloud Offerings to China

Lenovo and SAP are expanding their longstanding alliance by partnering to develop cloud product offerings that will bring the software maker's SAP HANA in-memory database to the Chinese market.Officials with the two tech vendors announced a multi-pronged initiative that will bring together SAP HANA and Lenovo's x86 servers to create cloud solutions for businesses in China, a market that SAP has yet to really break into. The alliance calls for not only creating these cloud offerings, but also jointly developing other products based on HANA and Lenovo's data center systems and to work together on go-to-market programs that will touch regions throughout the world.That will include demonstrating various solutions in Lenovo's Enterprise Innovation Centers in Stuttgart, Germany—SAP's home country—Morrisville, N.C., and in Beijing, where the systems OEM will soon be opening a new center.The partnership, announced Jan. 26, will enable customers to embrace the growing digital economy that is driven by such trends as mobility, big data, security, hyper-connectivity and the cloud, according to Tag Robertson, SAP alliance and solution offerings manager at Lenovo.