Jennifer Stevenson presented on building a hosting business with SQL Server 2012. The presentation covered SQL Server 2012's product pillars and features, including AlwaysOn for high availability and disaster recovery, ColumnStore Index for boosting query performance, and self-service BI tools. It also discussed partner opportunities like providing managed BI services in the cloud or strengthening expertise to create differentiated database and BI services.

1. Jennifer Stevenson, Hosting Solution Specialist
B2B - Operator Channels
Microsoft Corp (UK)

2. Agenda
• State of Mind
• Product Pillars & Features
• Partner Opportunities with
SQL 2012
• Action-to-Growth
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4. IT Portfolio Spending
Transform Grow Run
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5. Cloud Break- Mission
On Your through Critical
TERMS Insights CONFIDENCE
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6. MISSION CRITICAL BREAKTHROUGH CLOUD
CONFIDENCE INSIGHT ON YOUR TERMS
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7. Organizational Blazing-Fast Required 9s
Peace of Mind Compliance Performance & Protection
Extend Any Data, Optimized Fast Time to Scale on
Anywhere Productivity Solution Demand
Credible, Managed Rapid Data
Scalable Analytics Consistent Data Self-Service BI Exploration
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15. 1 AlwaysOn: Integrated high availability and disaster recovery solution with a suite of new capabilities including 8x faster
throughput and 2x faster failover.
2 ColumnStore Index: Significantly boost query performance by 10~100x for BI and DW.
3 and web, simplified application testing.
development experience with a single environment across Database, BI
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5 users of all levels for
Highly interactive, web-based data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience to
6 Data Quality Services : Provide knowledge-driven tools customers can use to allow data stewards to create and maintain a
Data Quality Knowledge Base which helps improve data quality and ease data management.
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16. Key: ○ = partial support; ● = full support
1 The Express edition is available at no additional cost
2 Web Edition will only be available via SPLA.
3 The Business Intelligence edition is only available to SALs
4 Analysis Services & Reporting Services.
5 Existing SQL Server Enterprise edition licenses in the Server + CAL licensing model upgraded to SQL Server 2012 will be limited to server deployments with 20 cores or less. Refer to Datasheet for more details.
6 Basic includes log shipping, database mirroring, server core support and two-node Failover Clustering. Windows Server Enterprise edition or above is a system requirement for AlwaysOn / Failover Clustering.
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7 SharePoint Server with Enterprise CAL is a system requirement for Power View and PowerPivot for SharePoint. Alerting is accessible through SharePoint Foundation or above.

17. Enterprise Edition
Business Intelligence Edition
• Managed services for business critical
applications
• Provide a comprehensive BI platform in the Cloud • Database consolidation / Virtualization
Standard Edition • Cross-sell: Add BI capabilities on top of your
SharePoint hosting services
• Partnership opportunities with other BI system
• New LOB/packaged applications integrators and ISVs
• Database upgrade
• Migration from free database or competitive
platform
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20. Start your journey to a Database and BI practice
Strengthen your expertise and be ready
Create differentiated services with SQL Server 2012
http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/en/us/sqlserver/sqlserver.aspx
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