NTT Data, the system integration arm for NTT Group, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, began collaborating with SAP and IBM to validate the performance of IBM’s Power Systems for the SAP HANA Platform.

According to Jauder Ho during an interview with theCUBE, VP of Cloud Services for NTT Data, “SAP owns the governance of this initiative and NTT has been very involved in the testing, development, and optimization with the support of IBM.”

The power of fast data

Ho said that metrics show “anywhere from 40 to 100 times speedup just by deploying HANA on Power as opposed to a traditional appliance type model or x86 on Oracle. And that’s only the beginning.”

SAP is a valuable partner for NTT Data, considered the sixth largest system integrator in the world. “We have 2,700 customers worldwide running on SAP,” said Ho. “For us it’s a key investment, as we want to be able to help customers run better, faster, stronger across the board. It is our belief that HANA on Power would be that key differentiator, both on premises and in Cloud.”

For a company that wants to move up the stack, NTT Data has more than enough resources. “We have 220 data centers,” said Ho. “We are one of the few companies that owns ships that lay cable across the Atlantic and Pacific. Another metric says we carry about 40 percent of the world’s backup. We’re able to take a lot of the pain out of IT operations so they can focus on their key business propositions.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of IBM Edge2015.