14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft's SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse is designed, in the Redmond company's perspective, to streamline the deployment of enterprise-class data warehousing projects. With costs as low as $13,000 per terabyte, SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse allows business customers to access new reference architectures from Bull, Dell and HP, set up to increase the speed of creating data warehouses, while cutting complexity and reducing costs. Microsoft indicated that the new initiative would break down the current barriers associated with data warehousing deployments.
“In this difficult economic climate, organizations relying on their data to inform critical business decisions need an enterprise data platform that provides access to huge volumes of data at a low cost,” explained Stuart Frost, general manager, SQL Server Data Warehousing at Microsoft. “With SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse, we are offering customers choices in reference configurations and technical guidance to create a customized, highly scalable enterprise-class data warehouse solution that fits their needs and their budget.”
Via SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse, customers will be able to immediately tap hardware resources from Bull, Dell and HP. The scalable reference architectures from the software giant's hardware partners are running SQL Server 2008, but their biggest advantage is that the offerings require customers to reserve less efforts and resources to testing and configuring the products. The Redmond company also indicated that it had partnered with Avanade, Cognizant Technology Solutions, HP and Hitachi Consulting in order to provide solution templates to accompany the SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse offerings.
“For organizations to be competitive in today’s global marketplace, they need affordable, easy-to-deploy technology solutions that are powerful and secure,” added Mike Gill, vice president, Industry Standard Servers, HP. “Industry-leading HP ProLiant servers running the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Fast Track Data Warehouse bring the benefits of data warehousing to a broader customer base than ever before.”
Being able to scale up to 32 terabytes, the configurations bring to the table symmetric multiprocessing architectures, with comprehensive hardware optimizations, which are capable of going as high as 200 MB per second per central processing unit core.
“With Microsoft SQL Server 2008 running on Dell PowerEdge servers, these new data warehousing solutions are able to scale from several terabytes to multi-tens of terabytes,” revealed Judy Chavis, director of Software Marketing and Business Development at Dell. “Soon, they’ll be able to scale even higher. This industry-standard solution gives customers a cost-effective alternative to other proprietary business intelligence solutions available today.”