Microsoft has unveiled new SQL Server code-named ‘Denali’, which will be made available as SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse.
The company has also started a new Critical Advantage Program, which provides experience across the complete life cycle of mission-critical appliances, such as SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse.
Microsoft said that the combined product and programme will help enterprise customers design, deploy and optimise appliance-based offerings to help ensure the scalability, availability and reliability for the demanding data warehouse requirements.
The SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse comes with a parallel processing architecture which is pre-tuned and pre-configured to enable distributed query processing for the highest levels of performance.
The Parallel Data Warehouse appliance offering is available to customers with choice in hardware, today in partnership with HP and in the future through other partnerships with companies such as Bull.
In addition, with interoperability with the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) platform, customers can deliver managed self-service BI offerings to everyone in the organisation.
The company said that the Critical Advantage Program (MCAP) provides appliance customers with an array of pretested hardware and software configurations, services and support, all designed to make customers’ business efficient, cost-effective, risk-resistant and competitive.
The programme is offered as part of SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse, and includes a support option with 30 minute response time, an escalation manager, a service delivery plan, enhanced critical situation process and a dedicated support engineer.
