German-based business software maker SAP used the Sapphire conference in Orlando to announce that it would expand its relationship with Dell in the fields of cloud computing and in-memory databases.

The tech giants said that the move would allow SAP customers to run the software on Dell's VIS Next Generation Datacenter Platform, which bolstered over the recent years by acquiring companies like that of Ocarina Networks- a storage optimization vendor.

Dell said its partnership with SAP showed their resolve to help customers in tackling real business problems.

Speaking on the topic, Dell services president Steve Schukenbrock said, “The expansion of our current collaboration with SAP demonstrates our mutual resolve to help customers solve real business problems.”

The companies also revealed that the University of Kentucky would move its whole SAP platform on Dell’s cloud servers. A representative of the University of Kentucky explained the move to dell’s cloud.

In addition, Dell confirmed that the company would sell apps that would run on SAP’s HANA in-memory database technology that provide a boost to performance by processing the data in RAM.