Cisco and EMC have validated a joint hardware solution for deploying SAP’s Hana business software. The solution combines Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC VNX 5300 storage.

Hana is a series of business software products, including SAP’s in-memory database, analytics, reporting and more. According to Cisco, there has been a growing demand for infrastructure to support these applications.

The hardware vendors are promising the solution to result in acceleration of existing business processes and provide access to large amounts of data in shorter periods of time. The two companies are going to combine their go-to-market efforts for the solution.

Prasad Rampalli, senior VP of EMC’s Global Solutions Group, said the solution was an ‘application-aware’ infrastructure.

“We are excited to be a key part of this inflection point in the industry with ‘in-memory’ computing on EMC Cisco infrastructure, establishing a new normal for time-to-information and making real-time business decisions,” Rampalli said.

The Hana database product is an in-memory database technology, which accesses data stored in memory, rather than on disk, which makes the database work faster.

EMC has been the most popular vendor to provide storage for use with SAP applications, followed by Hitachi and IBM, according to an IDC survey from 2011.