Microsoft announced SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 at TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas. Fast Track Data Warehouse is a set of Reference Architectures that help you reduce time to solution and cost.
Fast Track also provides significantly increased performance and scale through pre-tested and pre-tuned configurations.
Microsoft has three key Data Warehouse offerings including SQL Server 2008 R2, Fast Track Data Warehouse and Parallel Data Warehouse. Together, these offerings enable customers to scale their warehouses from gigabytes to hundreds of terabytes on a SQL Server platform. Fast Track helps you to scale up to tens of terabytes while Parallel Data Warehouse is ideal for workloads with hundreds of terabytes and very high performance. Finally, Microsoft has a unique Distributed Architecture that supports Data Warehouses deployed on both Fast Track and Parallel Data Warehouse.
Current hardware partners offering SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse include Bull, Dell, EMC, HP and IBM. Microsoft also indicated in its announcement that it is working with some new partners on the product, including Cisco Systems, Fujitsu and Hitachi Data Systems. NetApp and EMC are working as storage provider vendors on some of the configurations.
For more information, see the announcement Announcing Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 at TDWI World Conference on the SQL Server Team blog.
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