14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, Microsoft has made the final flavor of SQL Server 2012 generally available for download and purchase.
The product has already been deployed for production use by hundreds of companies all around the world, including Volvo Car Corp., Revlon, the HSN, Klout and LG Chemical.
The new SQL Server 2012 comes as a cloud-ready information platform designed to offer customers the possibility to come up with solutions to extend data across on-premises and public cloud.
Through SQL Server 2012, Microsoft customers can take advantage of a powerful new set of capabilities for mission-critical workloads, the company notes.
Moreover, the features packed with this solution have been tailored for hybrid IT across traditional datacenters and public and private cloud, as well as for business intelligence.
The latest flavor of SQL Server 2012 is now available for download from Softpedia as well, via the link embedded below.
Microsoft offers specific info on the new software release through the SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event, published on this page on its website (this content is available until June 30th).
There are over 30 webcasts coming from SQL Server 2012 experts included in the event, along with a series of multimedia features from Microsoft partners.
Some of the main features and capabilities that the new SQL Server 2012 offers to customers worldwide include: SQL Server AlwaysOn, a new high availability solution delivering increased application availability, lower TCO and ease of use.
xVelocity, in-memory technologies significantly boost data warehouse and analytics performance by up to 100x.
Power View, a web-based, highly interactive, data visualization and presentation solution designed to enable business users and decision makers to quickly discover meaningful insights from their data. Data integration and management, new and enhanced tools to deliver credible, consistent data to the right users at the right time, including new SQL Server Data Quality Services and enhanced Master Data Services.
Enhanced PowerPivot functionalities enable customers to leverage new advanced analytic capabilities and further ease of use while still working within the familiar tools provided by Excel.
The new Business Intelligence (BI) Semantic Model provides a single, scalable model for BI applications, from reporting and analysis to dashboards and scorecards.
SQL Server Data Tools, a new tool that unifies SQL Server and cloud SQL Azure development for both professional database and application developers.