SAP Solution Brief SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise

Support Extreme Transaction Processing Reliably and Affordably

Quick Facts

Summary Key Features Business Benefits Fast and reliable data processing is •• Flexible encryption and security •• Quickly process millions of transac- essential to business operations. technologies – Protect your data from tions with terabyte-sized databases, With SAP® Sybase® Adaptive Server® internal and external security breaches while supporting rapid growth in data Enterprise, you get a relational database without changing applications and transaction volume management system that makes it •• Hybrid-threaded database kernel – •• Reduce operational risks by helping possible to consistently achieve high Improve performance and scalability ensure data security and system sta- performance in mission-critical, data- while minimizing hardware resources, bility, and supporting disaster recovery intensive environments. especially in virtualized environments •• Improve efficiency with a system that •• Advanced in-database compression – requires less management resources Business Challenges Store large data sets more compactly and reduces underutilized assets •• Support a high volume of transactions for lower storage costs and better over- •• Lower IT costs through efficient use of on mission-critical applications all performance storage, processor, and staff resources •• Guarantee data security, reliability, •• Shared-disk clustering architecture – and integrity Consolidate different application work- For More Information •• Keep maintenance and administrative loads for higher utilization, continuous Contact your SAP representative. costs in check availability, and flexible load balancing •• Protect current IT investments •• Virtualized Resource Management™ – Elastically provision and manage data- base resources to meet service-level agreements cost effectively, even at peak volumes If your business is going to create and sustain a competitive functionality in SAP Sybase ASE provides advantage in the face of exponential data growth, your data even faster response times (see Figure 1). management systems must address key challenges in the areas These databases reside completely in memory, and with a zero-disk foot- of performance, reliability, and efficiency. With SAP® Sybase® print, provide an even higher level of Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE), you get a performance. high-performance database that can help improve operational efficiency and reduce overall costs.You can achieve unparalleled Deliver Rock-Solid Security and Reliability performance in your data-intensive environment. Data encryption and security technolo- gies built into SAP Sybase ASE protect Achieve High Data-Processing performance and scalability – even as your data from both internal and external Responsiveness and Throughput the number of users and transactions security breaches. That means you can increase. keep your data secure at all times – Architected with performance in mind, A hybrid-threaded kernel frees database whether in transit, when accessed, or SAP Sybase ASE includes a number of engines from performing I/O, network, while at rest. features that enable it to consume fewer and other potentially time-consuming SAP Sybase ASE employs a patented resources from the host hardware and activities, for more predictable and consis- encryption system that allows you to operating system. The result? Greater tent performance. In-memory database encrypt selected parts of your databases

Figure 1: SAP® Sybase® ASE Mission-Critical Enterprise Data Management System

Source: Sybase and tables without the expense and Improve Efficiency and SAP Sybase ASE also includes features effort of changing existing applications. Lower Costs that enable the system to be a stingy user You can also help ensure data privacy of hardware resources, making it easier through row-based access controls, the Ease of use and efficient storage are key to optimize operations with a minimum encryption of in-transit data, and sup- to controlling costs and raising service of staff. According to a recent Sybase- port for Lightweight Directory Access levels in the data center, especially as sponsored report by IDC, firms should Protocol (LDAP), Active Directory, and data volumes continue to grow. With SAP regularly assess the total cost of owner- Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) Sybase ASE, you can divide tables into ship of their major database applications, services. smaller partitions, each of which can be including hardware, software, and staff A shared-disk clustering architecture individually managed. This allows you to time, as well as opportunity costs due to allows you to run database instances on reduce maintenance times, realize opti- poor performance and other issues. IDC multiple servers, enabling database oper- mal data storage, and ultimately gain studied the total costs of 12 database ations even if one or more of the server higher levels of performance. sites that were using both SAP Sybase nodes is unavailable. Automated failover Advanced in-database compression of ASE and one or more other vendors’ helps combat unplanned interruptions. both structured and unstructured data products. IDC found that SAP Sybase ASE And Virtualized Resource Management™ allows you to store data more efficiently. total costs were 28% less than the total technology simplifies the task of consoli- Because you use less storage for the costs of the other relational databases.1 dating and maintaining multiple applica- same amount of data, you reduce stor- (See Figure 2.) tions on a shared-disk cluster. age costs. And because data retrieval is more efficient, you realize better performance.

Figure 2: SAP® Sybase® ASE Five-Year Savings per 100 Users

FOOTNOTE

1. IDC White Paper, sponsored by Sybase, “Calculating the True Cost of RDBMS Ownership and How Sybase ASE Stacks Up: A Guide for SAP Source: IDC, October 2011 (Sybase) Business Suite Users,” December 2011. www..com/contactsap

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