Simplified Protection for SAP HANA

SOLUTION BRIEF

Introduction SAP HANA provides a radically different application architecture with the flexibility to deploy the system in the cloud or on-premises. HANA’s data needs protection no matter where the system is deployed. Key Benefits Cohesity provides a certified integration with SAP HANA to protect HANA’s data in the cloud or • Simple SAP HANA certified on-premises. Customers can continue to use their existing SAP processes and tools. With Cohesity, solution HANA’s data can be leveraged for various applications beyond data protection. • Meet backup and recovery SLAs Integrate into existing SAP processes • Immutability against ransomware Cohesity integrates with SAP HANA through the SAP Backint API, which is implemented as an agent • Unlock new value from your running inside HANA. The seamless integration allows SAP Basis Admins to continue using their data existing SAP processes and tools such as HANA Studio, DBA Cockpit or HANA SQL, while Backup Admins can use Cohesity for simplified protection of HANA’s data.

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Figure 1: SAP HANA - how it works

Protect HANA’s data Cohesity provides the ability to back up HANA’s persistent storage layer, which holds the content of the database memory and change logs. With Cohesity, HANA can be restored to the last state of the database or to a point in time if needed. This protects customers against logical errors or data loss caused by hardware failures of the persistent storage layer. SOLUTION BRIEF | Simplified Protection for SAP HANA

SAP HANA converges SAP HANA Non-SAP silos for transactional processing and DataProtect SmartFiles Development Analytics analytics in a single Test Insights system Cohesity collapses silos for SAP and non-SAP data in a single platform

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Figure 2: SAP HANA – Collapse Silos

Customer’s SAP and non-SAP data is fragmented across • Enhance resilience – Enhance data integrity with two-node infrastructure silos making it difficult for IT to protect, locate or / three disk / chassis / rack fault tolerance, strict consistency, leverage their most important digital asset. By backing up HANA’s erasure coding and replication factor. data into the Cohesity platform, customers can start to collapse • Collapse silos – Eliminate point solutions for backup and their SAP and non-SAP data silos, whether they are on-premises or recovery that are complex and expensive to manage. in the cloud. • Expand data usage – Do more with your backup data. Solution capabilities Accelerate application development or derive business insights from your backup data, including meeting business and • Accelerate backups and restores – Directly access the HANA compliance requirements. database via a fast pipe, which is to send backups straight to Cohesity. Backups are immediately available for recovery, • Reduce data footprint – Global variable-length sliding window either to the same or alternate servers. deduplication and compression helps to reduce overall data footprint and attack surface. • Immutable to ransomware attacks – An immutable file system, combined with WORM, RBAC, multifactor authentication (MFA), and data encryption (in flight and at rest), keeps backup data protected against sophisticated ransomware attacks.

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