SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications ...

SAP is coupling its HANA in-memory database with software for measuring market trends and customers’ moods through the analysis of unstructured social media data, the vendor announced Wednesday.

SAP on Tuesday announced the first products based on its HANA in-memory database aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, including a new Edge edition of the software as well as HANA-powered ...

SAP on Tuesday further expanded the reach of its HANA in-memory database, announcing that HANA now supports the 10.0 version of its BusinessObjects financial planning and consolidation application ...

Perhaps most significant is the news that SAP HANA stands as the world’s largest in-memory database. It can handle ten billion records, 100 terabytes of data and 200 million query responses.

See SAP HANA and RAM disk. In Time, It May All Merge At some point in the future, perhaps 10 or 20 years from now, RAM and storage may merge into one "memory/storage" pool (see future memory chips ).

SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, ... The company demonstrated a 100-node HANA cluster, built with IBM hardware, that had 100TB of RAM, ...