The document discusses new investments in SQL Server that will deliver mission critical confidence, breakthrough insights, and cloud capabilities. Key points include enhanced availability through SQL Server AlwaysOn; improved data warehouse performance from ColumnStore Indexes; and support for hybrid cloud solutions through common tools that allow customers to take advantage of Windows Azure.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in EducationNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The beaver Dam Unified School District, the University of Regensburg, George Washington University, and Tuscaloosa City Schools all employ Novell Collaboration services- from Novell Teaming, to Groupwise, to ZENworks, and more- to meet their IT needs.
Best Practices for Administering Novell GroupWise 8Novell
Along with a host of new end-user features, Novell GroupWise 8 includes administrative updates to make it easier than ever to keep your system running reliably, safeguard your data and leverage your existing investments. This session will assist you in perfecting the administration of your GroupWise messaging environment. You'll learn how to optimize and manage agents and configuration settings to maximize your system stability and performance.
Flexibility In The Remote Branch Office VMware Mini Forum CalgaryJames Charter
VMware Mini Forum Calgary Afternoon Keynote Presentation, February 18, 2010. Overview on how Virtualization Technologies can provide flexibility and additional value in the Remote Office / Branch Office (ROBO). Topics discussed: Centralized vs. Distributed Deployment Models, Backup, Data Replication, Disaster Recovery, vSphere features, Site Recovery Manager, Virtual Desktop, WAN Acceleration.
Integrating Novell Teaming within Your Existing InfrastructureNovell
So you've decided to implement Novell Teaming, but how do you use it to leverage your existing environment to the fullest extent? Using product demonstrations, this session will how you how to configure authentication against existing LDAP directories; how to integrate with Novell GroupWise, Exchange or other e-mail systems; and how to expose existing document stores so they can be searched and accessed through the Novell Teaming interface.
That’s right…in a recent IDC report, they tell customers don’t “move” to the cloud, “embrace” it. They also tell customers, don’t even consider the cloud without an identity strategy. That’s where WorkloadIQ comes in. In this session you will learn how WorkloadIQ, Novell’s differentiated approach to intelligent workload management, will help you infuse identity and management into your environment. Come see how together Novell and VMware will allow you to not only embrace the cloud, but also ensure that it’s manageable, secure and compliant. This will include demonstrations of brand new WorkloadIQ products - Novell Cloud Security Service, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware, Novell Identity Manager 4, and Novell Cloud Manager along with VMware technologies.
Migrating from Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management to Novell ZENworks Config...Novell
Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management is the latest release from the famed ZENworks product family. This new architecture builds on the success of Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management, taking its features and functionality to the next level. This session will provide a detailed description of the steps you need to take to migrate your existing ZENworks 7 Desktop Management infrastructure to ZENworks 10 Configuration Management and gives you the tools to ensure a smooth, successful transition.
This session will explore what happens after server consolidation: Workload profiles change, usage patterns change, and resource utilization goes up and down. During this session, we will discuss how the storage footprint changes, and what used to be ideally optimized isn't anymore.
You will learn how to quantify the gap between resource allocation and actual usage, how to recover and redeploy excess capacity, and how to find common virtual machine configuration mistakes that can degrade overall performance.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in EducationNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The beaver Dam Unified School District, the University of Regensburg, George Washington University, and Tuscaloosa City Schools all employ Novell Collaboration services- from Novell Teaming, to Groupwise, to ZENworks, and more- to meet their IT needs.
Best Practices for Administering Novell GroupWise 8Novell
Along with a host of new end-user features, Novell GroupWise 8 includes administrative updates to make it easier than ever to keep your system running reliably, safeguard your data and leverage your existing investments. This session will assist you in perfecting the administration of your GroupWise messaging environment. You'll learn how to optimize and manage agents and configuration settings to maximize your system stability and performance.
Flexibility In The Remote Branch Office VMware Mini Forum CalgaryJames Charter
VMware Mini Forum Calgary Afternoon Keynote Presentation, February 18, 2010. Overview on how Virtualization Technologies can provide flexibility and additional value in the Remote Office / Branch Office (ROBO). Topics discussed: Centralized vs. Distributed Deployment Models, Backup, Data Replication, Disaster Recovery, vSphere features, Site Recovery Manager, Virtual Desktop, WAN Acceleration.
Integrating Novell Teaming within Your Existing InfrastructureNovell
So you've decided to implement Novell Teaming, but how do you use it to leverage your existing environment to the fullest extent? Using product demonstrations, this session will how you how to configure authentication against existing LDAP directories; how to integrate with Novell GroupWise, Exchange or other e-mail systems; and how to expose existing document stores so they can be searched and accessed through the Novell Teaming interface.
That’s right…in a recent IDC report, they tell customers don’t “move” to the cloud, “embrace” it. They also tell customers, don’t even consider the cloud without an identity strategy. That’s where WorkloadIQ comes in. In this session you will learn how WorkloadIQ, Novell’s differentiated approach to intelligent workload management, will help you infuse identity and management into your environment. Come see how together Novell and VMware will allow you to not only embrace the cloud, but also ensure that it’s manageable, secure and compliant. This will include demonstrations of brand new WorkloadIQ products - Novell Cloud Security Service, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware, Novell Identity Manager 4, and Novell Cloud Manager along with VMware technologies.
Migrating from Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management to Novell ZENworks Config...Novell
Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management is the latest release from the famed ZENworks product family. This new architecture builds on the success of Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management, taking its features and functionality to the next level. This session will provide a detailed description of the steps you need to take to migrate your existing ZENworks 7 Desktop Management infrastructure to ZENworks 10 Configuration Management and gives you the tools to ensure a smooth, successful transition.
This session will explore what happens after server consolidation: Workload profiles change, usage patterns change, and resource utilization goes up and down. During this session, we will discuss how the storage footprint changes, and what used to be ideally optimized isn't anymore.
You will learn how to quantify the gap between resource allocation and actual usage, how to recover and redeploy excess capacity, and how to find common virtual machine configuration mistakes that can degrade overall performance.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in GovernmentNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
Mariagerfjord, which is a municipality in Denmark, The California Highway Patrol, the City of Carlsbad, Cambridge City Council, The Kingdom of Bahrain’s Ministry of Social Development are five government institutions that use Novell Endpoint Management Solutions, such as Novell ZENworks and others, to meet their IT needs.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in HealthcareNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
Sussex Health Informatics Service, which is part of the U.K. National Health Service, and Wyoming Medical Center are two organizations in the healthcare industry that employ Novell Endpoint Management services, such as Novell ZENworks and others, to meet their IT needs.
Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configurations: High available and scalable performance ...Principled Technologies
Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configurations consisting of Dell PowerEdge R720 servers, Dell Force10 S4810P switches, and Dell EqualLogic PS6110XV storage provide a range of configuration options so that you can select the one that is right for your business needs. Additionally, each configuration is easily scalable to accommodate for business growth.
The 3-2-1 base configuration provides a robust solution for any business needing to support up to 500 users on multiple business applications. Our tests demonstrate this solution supporting 500 users per VM for four VMs including two database VMs, one email VM, and one collaboration application VM.
If the number of users you need to support exceeds the user count the base configuration provides, adding another Dell PowerEdge R720 server to make a 4-2-1 configuration can support up to 1,000 users on multiple business applications while maintaining high availability. Our tests demonstrate this solution supporting 1,000 users per VM in the same four VMs as the 3-2-1 solution. Additionally, these configurations are so easy to scale upward that you can complete the process of adding a server in a matter of two hours or less from start to finish.
If you require support for an even higher number of users, adding a server and storage array to the base configuration, to make a 4-2-2 configuration allows for up to 1,500 users on multiple business applications. Our tests demonstrated this when we ran 1,500 users against each of the four VMs. Better yet, adding a Dell EqualLogic PS6110XV storage array to an existing 4-2-1 configuration is a cinch, taking under 30 minutes start to finish.
All of these Dell Reference Configurations give your business the reliability of highly available hardware configurations, greatly reducing downtime resulting from any hardware malfunctions.
By choosing proven Dell architecture, you avoid the hassles of putting your infrastructure together piece by piece, reducing the potential for error and providing you with a sturdy solution that is easily scalable to fit your present and future needs.
Avoiding Common Novell ZENworks Configuration Management Implementation PitfallsNovell
Migrations and deployments aren't always straightforward and training and manuals don't always provide all the information needed for a successful deployment. In this session, you will learn the top 10 implementation pitfalls encountered in dozens of Novell ZENworks Configuration Management customer installations—and how to avoid them. The session will also cover deployment and ongoing maintenance tips, to enable you to do it right the first time!
This presentation offers an introductory explanation of data center virtualization for audiences who are just beginning to learn how it works and why it might make sense for their organization.
Maintaining deployed software systems is one of the most challenging processes in enterprise IT. As software systems are deployed, they compound management and maintenance burdens for IT personnel. Systems that are not maintained correctly can result in increased downtime and expenses. Software appliances are no different. But during this session we'll show you simple and easy it is to use the tools that help you keep your software appliances up to date. You will learn how to handle the authentication, entitlement and access controls required to distribute updates. We will show you a framework for remote appliance configuration. And finally, you will learn how to meet unique remote appliance management needs.
Administrators can spend a great deal of time deploying and managing computing resources, especially when dealing with ROBO environments. The Dell PowerEdge VRTX, powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 v2 product family and running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, gives administrators centralized management tools to help them provide time saving benefits and integrated toolsets.
In our hands-on testing, we found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX greatly simplified deployment through an easy, wizard-based setup of Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clusters across server nodes with the Dell OpenManage Cluster Configurator. It also provided versatile hardware resource reassignment through a shared PCIe bus and efficient centralized management through CMC and scripting. Finally, we found that the Dell System Update Utility worked seamlessly with Microsoft Cluster-Aware Updating to update server nodes while keeping the failover cluster online and minimizing downtime. These advantages make the Dell PowerEdge VRTX an attractive choice for those who seek to reduce the management overhead of their ROBO environments.
Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 vs. VMware View 5: User experience and bandwidth consum...Principled Technologies
The experience that virtual desktops provide for workers is critical. If a user’s desktop is sluggish, or worse, choppy and difficult to navigate, working becomes difficult. Choosing a virtual desktop solution that provides sluggish, choppy desktops to remote end-users in branch offices defeats the purpose of implementing such a solution in the first place.
In both the small and medium-sized branch office scenarios we tested, we found that Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 provided a better desktop experience for remote users than VMware View 5, and used as much as 37.1 percent less bandwidth delivering it. Using Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 with Citrix Branch Repeater provided an even better experience for remote users by optimizing bandwidth over the WAN and delivering local-like virtual desktop sessions in both our 10-and 100-user tests. When selecting a VDI solution to deploy virtual desktops over the WAN to users in remote offices, determining the type of user experience the solution provides is paramount.
Novell ZENworks Configuration Management makes it easy to manage the setup, updating, healing and migration of desktops from a central location. In fact, application management is one of the most powerful and often utilized features of the product. During this session, Novell technical specialists will demonstrate application management and packaging features and provide numerous examples of how these features are used in real-life situations.
Database performance: Dell PowerEdge R730xd vs. Lenovo ThinkServer RD650Principled Technologies
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 users, take note. In our datacenter, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R730xd server based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family with the Intel SSD DC S3610 Series handled up to 27.9 percent more orders per minute than the Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 did. With three times the SSDs, the PowerEdge R730xd delivered better response times—up to 24.6 percent for application latency and up to 93.1 percent for disk latency—than the ThinkServer RD650. Getting more performance per server and better response times means you can give customers a better, faster ecommerce experience. This can allow you to buy, store, and power fewer servers, helping stretch your IT budget further.
Need to reduce the travel costs and lost productivity involved in face-to-face meetings? Online conferencing is the answer, and the technology is better than ever. Join us for one of the first looks at our upcoming conferencing solution. You'll see how its real-time video conferencing, desktop sharing and application sharing capabilities can make virtual meetings as effective as being there in person.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in EducationNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
The Spring Independent School District of Houston, Texas, and the Medical College of Georgia, are two educational institutions that employ Novell Endpoint Management tools, such as Novell ZENworks and Novell Configuration Management, to meet their IT needs.
Great news for Systems Center 2012 customers. With the aim of making System Center more cloud-friendly, Microsoft has made changes to the way that the licensing model for this popular product works. What used to be an extremely complex licensing system has been made much easier for clients to understand and manage. This presentation provides a quick overview of what these key updates are and work with a Softchoice Microsoft specialist to understand your needs under this new model moving forward.
Managing clients with Dell Client Integration Pack 3.0 and Microsoft System C...Principled Technologies
Client management is an important part of any enterprise. Employees have workstations in their offices or notebooks that travel with them around the globe, and efficient updates and remote management capabilities keep an organization’s IT assets ordered and secure. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 can provide a robust, efficient, management system for your IT infrastructure. Selecting clients that not only operate within your IT framework, but that have built-in software to integrate with it seamlessly to make client management tasks even easier is an intelligent strategy for your IT department.
In our tests, we found that Dell client management tools (Dell Client Integration Pack, Dell Client Configuration Toolkit, and Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation) integrated in a typical SCCM 2012 environment reduced the steps it took to complete client management tasks by as much as 77 percent, and included a number of features that weren’t available with clients from HP and Lenovo.
Introducing Novell Privileged User Manager and Securing Novell Open Enterpris...Novell
Come to this session and see how Novell Privileged User Manager can help your organization reduce the cost, complexity and risk associated with managing superusers across the enterprise. Find out how to rapidly deploy superuser management for Novell Open Enterprise Server 2. You will see a live demo of how Novell Privileged User Manager allows you to control what commands users are authorized to run, at what time and from what location.
Nimboxx HCI AU-110x: A scalable, easy-to-use solution for hyperconverged infr...Principled Technologies
Hyperconvergence is a fresh way of looking at your data center. For small- and medium-sized businesses especially, it could be well worth your time to invest in a hyperconverged infrastructure. The MeshOS-operated Nimboxx HCI AU-110x offered scalability and great performance in our hands-on tests and was simple and straightforward to use, which could help your business meet user demands and potentially save money by avoiding things such as hiring expensive IT staff to maintain your data center.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in High Tech and Professional Ser...Novell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
Viable, SNT Deutschland AG, RFB Consulting, and Woolpert, Inc are companies in the high tech and professional services field that use Novell Endpoint Management tools, such as Novell ZENworks and others, to meet their IT needs.
Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok who's working as a Staff SE, Strategic Accounts in Singapore ha created an awesome vCenter Operations 5 Training. It's available in PowerPoint format and I really would like to advise you to read the slide notes. The presentation serves 2 purposes, first it provides in-depth training for those who are learning or evaluating vCenter Operations 5 and second it provides materials that vCenter Ops champion can use to share with internal colleagues (e.g. storage team, app team, etc)
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in GovernmentNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
Mariagerfjord, which is a municipality in Denmark, The California Highway Patrol, the City of Carlsbad, Cambridge City Council, The Kingdom of Bahrain’s Ministry of Social Development are five government institutions that use Novell Endpoint Management Solutions, such as Novell ZENworks and others, to meet their IT needs.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in HealthcareNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
Sussex Health Informatics Service, which is part of the U.K. National Health Service, and Wyoming Medical Center are two organizations in the healthcare industry that employ Novell Endpoint Management services, such as Novell ZENworks and others, to meet their IT needs.
Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configurations: High available and scalable performance ...Principled Technologies
Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configurations consisting of Dell PowerEdge R720 servers, Dell Force10 S4810P switches, and Dell EqualLogic PS6110XV storage provide a range of configuration options so that you can select the one that is right for your business needs. Additionally, each configuration is easily scalable to accommodate for business growth.
The 3-2-1 base configuration provides a robust solution for any business needing to support up to 500 users on multiple business applications. Our tests demonstrate this solution supporting 500 users per VM for four VMs including two database VMs, one email VM, and one collaboration application VM.
If the number of users you need to support exceeds the user count the base configuration provides, adding another Dell PowerEdge R720 server to make a 4-2-1 configuration can support up to 1,000 users on multiple business applications while maintaining high availability. Our tests demonstrate this solution supporting 1,000 users per VM in the same four VMs as the 3-2-1 solution. Additionally, these configurations are so easy to scale upward that you can complete the process of adding a server in a matter of two hours or less from start to finish.
If you require support for an even higher number of users, adding a server and storage array to the base configuration, to make a 4-2-2 configuration allows for up to 1,500 users on multiple business applications. Our tests demonstrated this when we ran 1,500 users against each of the four VMs. Better yet, adding a Dell EqualLogic PS6110XV storage array to an existing 4-2-1 configuration is a cinch, taking under 30 minutes start to finish.
All of these Dell Reference Configurations give your business the reliability of highly available hardware configurations, greatly reducing downtime resulting from any hardware malfunctions.
By choosing proven Dell architecture, you avoid the hassles of putting your infrastructure together piece by piece, reducing the potential for error and providing you with a sturdy solution that is easily scalable to fit your present and future needs.
Avoiding Common Novell ZENworks Configuration Management Implementation PitfallsNovell
Migrations and deployments aren't always straightforward and training and manuals don't always provide all the information needed for a successful deployment. In this session, you will learn the top 10 implementation pitfalls encountered in dozens of Novell ZENworks Configuration Management customer installations—and how to avoid them. The session will also cover deployment and ongoing maintenance tips, to enable you to do it right the first time!
This presentation offers an introductory explanation of data center virtualization for audiences who are just beginning to learn how it works and why it might make sense for their organization.
Maintaining deployed software systems is one of the most challenging processes in enterprise IT. As software systems are deployed, they compound management and maintenance burdens for IT personnel. Systems that are not maintained correctly can result in increased downtime and expenses. Software appliances are no different. But during this session we'll show you simple and easy it is to use the tools that help you keep your software appliances up to date. You will learn how to handle the authentication, entitlement and access controls required to distribute updates. We will show you a framework for remote appliance configuration. And finally, you will learn how to meet unique remote appliance management needs.
Administrators can spend a great deal of time deploying and managing computing resources, especially when dealing with ROBO environments. The Dell PowerEdge VRTX, powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 v2 product family and running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, gives administrators centralized management tools to help them provide time saving benefits and integrated toolsets.
In our hands-on testing, we found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX greatly simplified deployment through an easy, wizard-based setup of Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clusters across server nodes with the Dell OpenManage Cluster Configurator. It also provided versatile hardware resource reassignment through a shared PCIe bus and efficient centralized management through CMC and scripting. Finally, we found that the Dell System Update Utility worked seamlessly with Microsoft Cluster-Aware Updating to update server nodes while keeping the failover cluster online and minimizing downtime. These advantages make the Dell PowerEdge VRTX an attractive choice for those who seek to reduce the management overhead of their ROBO environments.
Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 vs. VMware View 5: User experience and bandwidth consum...Principled Technologies
The experience that virtual desktops provide for workers is critical. If a user’s desktop is sluggish, or worse, choppy and difficult to navigate, working becomes difficult. Choosing a virtual desktop solution that provides sluggish, choppy desktops to remote end-users in branch offices defeats the purpose of implementing such a solution in the first place.
In both the small and medium-sized branch office scenarios we tested, we found that Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 provided a better desktop experience for remote users than VMware View 5, and used as much as 37.1 percent less bandwidth delivering it. Using Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 with Citrix Branch Repeater provided an even better experience for remote users by optimizing bandwidth over the WAN and delivering local-like virtual desktop sessions in both our 10-and 100-user tests. When selecting a VDI solution to deploy virtual desktops over the WAN to users in remote offices, determining the type of user experience the solution provides is paramount.
Novell ZENworks Configuration Management makes it easy to manage the setup, updating, healing and migration of desktops from a central location. In fact, application management is one of the most powerful and often utilized features of the product. During this session, Novell technical specialists will demonstrate application management and packaging features and provide numerous examples of how these features are used in real-life situations.
Database performance: Dell PowerEdge R730xd vs. Lenovo ThinkServer RD650Principled Technologies
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 users, take note. In our datacenter, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R730xd server based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family with the Intel SSD DC S3610 Series handled up to 27.9 percent more orders per minute than the Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 did. With three times the SSDs, the PowerEdge R730xd delivered better response times—up to 24.6 percent for application latency and up to 93.1 percent for disk latency—than the ThinkServer RD650. Getting more performance per server and better response times means you can give customers a better, faster ecommerce experience. This can allow you to buy, store, and power fewer servers, helping stretch your IT budget further.
Need to reduce the travel costs and lost productivity involved in face-to-face meetings? Online conferencing is the answer, and the technology is better than ever. Join us for one of the first looks at our upcoming conferencing solution. You'll see how its real-time video conferencing, desktop sharing and application sharing capabilities can make virtual meetings as effective as being there in person.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in EducationNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
The Spring Independent School District of Houston, Texas, and the Medical College of Georgia, are two educational institutions that employ Novell Endpoint Management tools, such as Novell ZENworks and Novell Configuration Management, to meet their IT needs.
Great news for Systems Center 2012 customers. With the aim of making System Center more cloud-friendly, Microsoft has made changes to the way that the licensing model for this popular product works. What used to be an extremely complex licensing system has been made much easier for clients to understand and manage. This presentation provides a quick overview of what these key updates are and work with a Softchoice Microsoft specialist to understand your needs under this new model moving forward.
Managing clients with Dell Client Integration Pack 3.0 and Microsoft System C...Principled Technologies
Client management is an important part of any enterprise. Employees have workstations in their offices or notebooks that travel with them around the globe, and efficient updates and remote management capabilities keep an organization’s IT assets ordered and secure. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 can provide a robust, efficient, management system for your IT infrastructure. Selecting clients that not only operate within your IT framework, but that have built-in software to integrate with it seamlessly to make client management tasks even easier is an intelligent strategy for your IT department.
In our tests, we found that Dell client management tools (Dell Client Integration Pack, Dell Client Configuration Toolkit, and Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation) integrated in a typical SCCM 2012 environment reduced the steps it took to complete client management tasks by as much as 77 percent, and included a number of features that weren’t available with clients from HP and Lenovo.
Introducing Novell Privileged User Manager and Securing Novell Open Enterpris...Novell
Come to this session and see how Novell Privileged User Manager can help your organization reduce the cost, complexity and risk associated with managing superusers across the enterprise. Find out how to rapidly deploy superuser management for Novell Open Enterprise Server 2. You will see a live demo of how Novell Privileged User Manager allows you to control what commands users are authorized to run, at what time and from what location.
Nimboxx HCI AU-110x: A scalable, easy-to-use solution for hyperconverged infr...Principled Technologies
Hyperconvergence is a fresh way of looking at your data center. For small- and medium-sized businesses especially, it could be well worth your time to invest in a hyperconverged infrastructure. The MeshOS-operated Nimboxx HCI AU-110x offered scalability and great performance in our hands-on tests and was simple and straightforward to use, which could help your business meet user demands and potentially save money by avoiding things such as hiring expensive IT staff to maintain your data center.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in High Tech and Professional Ser...Novell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
Viable, SNT Deutschland AG, RFB Consulting, and Woolpert, Inc are companies in the high tech and professional services field that use Novell Endpoint Management tools, such as Novell ZENworks and others, to meet their IT needs.
Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok who's working as a Staff SE, Strategic Accounts in Singapore ha created an awesome vCenter Operations 5 Training. It's available in PowerPoint format and I really would like to advise you to read the slide notes. The presentation serves 2 purposes, first it provides in-depth training for those who are learning or evaluating vCenter Operations 5 and second it provides materials that vCenter Ops champion can use to share with internal colleagues (e.g. storage team, app team, etc)
Best Practices Configuring And Developing Share Point SolutionsAlexander Meijers
This presentation contains best practices from myself and Microsoft regarding configuring and developing SharePoint Solutions. What to do with development, resources, disposing, deployment and some other items.
Share point 2013 and sql server 2012 what to chooseAlexander Meijers
SharePoint does heavily depend on SQL Server. Today with SharePoint 2013 you have the ability to choose from different versions of SQL Server. So how do you decide what is the best combination for your project and your customer? It depends on the many different aspects like governance, dependencies, used functionality, knowledge level and costs.
This session will talk about all these aspects, the advantages and extras when using SQL Server 2012 in combination with SharePoint 2013. The information shared in this session is interesting for all types of SharePoint consultants (including developers) and customers.
Electrically small antennas: The art of miniaturizationEditor IJARCET
We are living in the technological era, were we preferred to have the portable devices rather than unmovable devices. We are isolating our self rom the wires and we are becoming the habitual of wireless world what makes the device portable? I guess physical dimensions (mechanical) of that particular device, but along with this the electrical dimension is of the device is also of great importance. Reducing the physical dimension of the antenna would result in the small antenna but not electrically small antenna. We have different definition for the electrically small antenna but the one which is most appropriate is, where k is the wave number and is equal to and a is the radius of the imaginary sphere circumscribing the maximum dimension of the antenna. As the present day electronic devices progress to diminish in size, technocrats have become increasingly concentrated on electrically small antenna (ESA) designs to reduce the size of the antenna in the overall electronics system. Researchers in many fields, including RF and Microwave, biomedical technology and national intelligence, can benefit from electrically small antennas as long as the performance of the designed ESA meets the system requirement.
IBM Cloud software stack with self service, rapid provisioning and resource management, cataloging, image deployment and metering services. Starter kit for cloud provides key benefits sought by IT managers including responsive and reliable workload deployment and resources on demand to support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)...
This is the first post in my series about the new features in Windows Server 2008 R2. As in my series about the new features of Windows 7, I will update the articles when I learn about new features. I will discuss some of the new features in more detail soon. Essentially, the term "virtualization" covers three different technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2: Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, and Presentation Virtualization. Server Virtualization is based on Hyper-V 2.0, which will get quite a few interesting new features. The virtualization technology ehind Desktop virtualization, i.e., Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), is also Hyper-V. This is probably the most important new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Presentation Virtualization is nothing but the good old Terminal Server. Technically, I find it a bit odd to use the term "virtualization" in this context, but from a marketer's point of view, it probably makes a lot of sense. Note that Microsoft renamed the "Terminal Services" as "Remote Desktop Services" in Windows Server 2008 R2.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: Constructive Disruption with Cloud TechnologiesIntergen
What is cloud computing and what does it mean for your business today?
Microsoft New Zealand will share insights into cloud computing including:
• Beyond the hype - what really is cloud computing?
• The business case for cloud
• Showcases of what cloud computing is doing for New Zealand companies
• Economics of cloud computing and cost considerations
• Implementation tips and recommendations to get started
• Demonstration of Microsoft’s leading cloud productivity suite – Office365
Learn about Microsoft Office365 - a set of cloud-enabled tools that let you access your email, documents, contacts, and calendars from virtually anywhere, on almost any device. Office 365 brings together our best communication and collaboration tools including Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Lync in an always-up-to-date cloud service, for a low flexible monthly subscription. And we’ll show you this works and how to assess whether or not cloud computing makes sense for your organisation and what it takes to get there.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Leading Change strategies and insights for effective change management pdf 1.pdf
The fantastic 12 of sql server 2012
1. The next wave of SQL Server investments will help extend
organizations beyond the database with a cloud-ready information
platform that delivers mission critical confidence, breakthrough
insight, and cloud on your terms.
The Fantastic Mission Critical Confidence
SQL Server 2012 helps meet industry requirements for high avail-
ability with the new SQL Server AlwaysOn for mission critical avail-
12 of 2012
ability while ColumnStore Index helps enable blazing-fast data
warehouse query performance.
Breakthrough Insight
SQL Server 2012 helps customers unlock new insights with
pervasive data discovery across the organization while providing
tools for IT to provide credible, consistent data and large-scale
data warehousing and analytic solutions.
Cloud On Your Terms
Customers can enjoy built-in support for complex data types,
greater interoperability with varied platforms, and common tools,
like Management Studio and SQL Server Data Tools, to quickly
create and scale innovative Hybrid IT solutions across server, private
or public cloud. Meanwhile, connection points across SQL Server
2012 help make it easy to take advantage of the many benefits
offered by the Windows Azure Platform, including SQL Azure.
2012
2. Required 9s and Data Protection
Deliver required uptime and data protection,
server to cloud without wasting time and money
Greater Uptime
2x faster failover, reduced downtime by half¹ • SQL Server AlwaysOn: Help reduce planned and unplanned
downtime with the new integrated high availability and
disaster recovery solution. Achieve maximum application
availability and data protection with options to configure
multiple secondaries and the ability to quickly failover and
Greater Hardware recover applications.
Uptime UTILIZATION & Productivity • Windows Server Core: Help reduce OS patching by as much
as 50-60%† with new support for Windows Server Core.
• Maintain uptime during maintenance operations using
enhanced online operations and eliminate planned downtime
on Hyper-V environment using Live Migration.
Improved Productivity
• Common Tools: Configuration Wizard, Windows PowerShell
“Our business has to be online all the time…. support, dashboard, system views and System Center
we were able to enable AlwaysOn in a alignment simplifies deploying and managing of Availability
Groups within AlwaysOn.
matter of minutes.”
Mediterranean Shipping Company Greater Hardware Utilization
• Help reduce idle hardware and improve IT cost efficiency
and performance using Active Secondaries which enables
offloading of various workloads to the secondary instances.
New High
Availability Solution
AlwaysOn
¹Source: Internal Microsoft CTP TAP testing results. 2x faster than Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2008 R2 † The percentage reduction in patching varies and can be less based on the server roles that
are enabled and the type of patches that are applied.
3. Blazing-Fast Performance
Gain breakthrough & predictable performance
backed by industry-leading benchmarks
Accelerated Query Performance
57,000 second¹
transactions per
• ColumnStore Index: Significantly boost data warehouse query
performance, by up to 10x for star join and similar queries,
using the new ColumnStore Index—built-in.
“400 percent • Full Text Search: Support blazing fast queries with dramatic
improvements to Full-Text Search that offer serious
improvement in performance and scale advances.
performance.”
100,000,000
• Compression: Accelerate the performance of I/O intensive
workloads by cutting growing volumes of data 50-60%1 with
First American Title
back up and data compression capabilities.
Insurance Company
transactions per day² Proactive Performance Management
• Resource Governor: Gain consistent performance for
concurrent and mixed workloads by defining resource usage
10x Faster
across different applications.
Now, up to 3 • Management Tools: Analyze query execution plans, capture
database activity, optimize indexes and structures, and help
ensure consistent query performance within Management
Studio.
Industry-Verified
New ColumnStore Index • Benchmarks: SQL Server continuously leads in industry-relevant
TPC-E and TPC-H performance benchmarks.
• SAP-Certified: Release over release SQL Server is SAP-certified
to run some of the industry’s most demanding workloads.
¹Source: Microsoft customer evidence, Choice Hotels International
²Source: Microsoft customer evidence, KAS Bank
³Source: Microsoft customer testing; common data warehousing queries ¹Source: TechNet Books Online
4. Organizational Security
and Compliance
Help enable security and compliance with built-in
“Most secure of any of the security and IT controls
major database platforms.” Data Protection
• Encryption: Protect data with built-in encryption capabilities
that help protect confidential information including Transparent
Data Encryption that adds advanced protection without requiring
changes to the application.
• Certifications: Maintain confidence with third-party verifications;
release over release, SQL Server pursues and achieves globally
recognized Common Criteria Certifications.
Control Access
• User-Defined Server Roles: Easily manage permissions around
data access to support separation of duties.
• Default Schema for Groups: Help increase manageability and
decrease complexity of database schema by allowing a default
NIST Reported Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database schema for Windows group user accounts.
Jan 2002 – Jun 2010 • Contained Database Authentication: Help control database access
to deployed applications while improving manageability with self-
contained access to information without the need for server logins.
Better Expanded • Active Directory: Help secure end user data analytics with new
separation &
SharePoint and ActiveDirectory security models for end user
of duties AUDIT reports published and shared in SharePoint.
Ensure Compliance
• SQL Server Audit: Help ensure compliance related to auditing
New in with audit resilience, filtering, user-defined audit, and enablement
across all SQL Server editions.
2012 • Policy-Based Management: Define configuration policies and
apply them to servers, databases, tables, and other targets across
a server environment to help ensure policy compliance across
the environment.
Source: ITIC 2011: SQL Server Delivers Industry-Leading Security
5. Peace of Mind
Help ensure peace of mind with the right product tools,
PRODUCTION-LIKE
premier services and support, a trusted partner ecosystem,
and a wealth of no-fee tools.
application testing Product Enhancements
• Distributed Replay: Simplify application testing and help minimize
errors with application changes, configuration changes, and
Free tools, upgrades.
migrate & upgrade • System Center Alignment: Up-to-date Management Packs
enable centralized monitoring across SQL Server versions
including SQL Server 2012.
• System Center Advisor: Help reduce overall downtime with
ongoing assessments of SQL Server configurations and changes
over time.
Ecosystem of partners • No-fee Service Packs: Unlike many software companies,
70,000 Microsoft offers free access to software service packs.
Free Planning Tools
• Quickly plan for an upgrade or migration with a wealth of
no-fee tools like Migration Assistant, Upgrade Advisor, and
MAPS developed by Microsoft engineers and available for
download online.
PREMIER SUPPORT Tailored Support and Licensing Programs
• Mission Critical Support: Microsoft’s Premier Mission Critical
$$ Predictability & savings
Support and the Microsoft Critical Advantage Program, provide
the services and support needed for companies to establish
the proactive IT environment and operations necessary to
through licensing programs deliver maximum availability and performance to their Mission
Critical Applications.
• Enrollment for Application Platform: Microsoft delivers piece
of mind with the licensing program EAP which offers unlimited
support to customers with specific software assurance plans and
up to 40% savings on license costs for new deployments.
6. Rapid Data Exploration
& Visualization
Empower end users with new insights through rapid
data exploration and visualization
“Only 28% of potential users are using the
Self-Service Analytics
standard BI platform of choice in organizations¹” • PowerPivot: Empowering users of all levels to access and mash-
up data from virtually any source, create compelling reports and
analytical applications, and easily collaborate and share insights
using familiar tools in Microsoft® Excel® 2010 and Microsoft
SharePoint 2010.
Stunning, interactive data visualization
• Power View: Discover new insights at the speed of thought with
highly interactive, browser-based data exploration, visualization,
and presentation experiences for users of all levels. Now anyone
can create a report in just seconds, transform the “shape”
of data with a single click, add powerful timed animation
sequences to quickly identify trends or anomalies, and make a
more convincing case through rich presentation of discovered
insights.
Mashup data,
PowerPivot
Stunning, interactive
data visualizations,
Power View
Familiar Tools
built on Excel &
SharePoint
¹ Gartner, “The Consumerization of BI Drives Greater Adoption,” James Richardson, June 3, 2011
7. Managed Self-Service BI
Enable users with Self-Service BI while gaining better
monitoring and management capabilities for IT
“We can balance our Gain insight and oversight
employees’ need for • PowerPivot for SharePoint: Balance the need to monitor,
rich information and manage, and govern the data and analytics end users create with
IT dashboards and controls that help IT monitor end user activity,
collaboration with IT’s data source usage, and gather performance metrics from servers.
need to manage the
Enable IT Efficiency
safety & confidentiality
• End user created, IT managed: SQL Server 2012 bridges the
of information.” gap between end user created BI applications and IT managed
corporate solutions by providing the ability to import PowerPivot
CareGroup Healthcare System models into Analysis Services so that they can be professionally
managed and transformed into corporate grade solutions.
• Ease of administration through SharePoint: Enable end user
Gain
alerting from reports published to SharePoint and benefit from
the ease of consolidated management through the SharePoint
insight 2010 Central Administration.
& oversight • SQL Azure Reporting: Extend rich user insights to even more
people with SQL Azure Reporting that removes the need for
deploying and maintaining a reporting infrastructure.
End user
created,
IT managed
Single
administration
from SharePoint
8. Credible, Consistent Data
Deliver credible, consistent data to the right users
across the organization with a complete end-to-
Companies with accurate data perform better1 end solution
Hrs spent per One Single Semantic Model
% of master data complete employee each week • BI Semantic Model: A single, scalable model for Business
& accurate searching for info Intelligence applications, from reporting and analysis to
dashboards and scorecards, that helps provide a consistent view
Top 20%
Performers 91% 1.2hrs across heterogeneous data sources. IT and developers can create
a single model to be consumed by front-end tools for their BI
Applications across both tabular and multidimensional models.
Middle 50%
68% 2.8hrs Seamlessly Integrate Data
Performers
• Integration Services: Help reduce time-to-solution for innovative,
Bottom 30% team-based data integration across data sources, including
Performers Under 50% 6hrs the cloud, by utilizing the industry-leading tools in Integration
Services (SSIS) that help deliver credible, consistent data
reliably and efficiently. New improvements include significant
improvements in the user experience for dramatic efficiencies.
Data
Cleanse Organizational Data
Master Single BI • Data Quality Services: Help improve data quality by using
Data
organizational knowledge and 3rd party reference data providers,
Quality Semantic including cloud-based providers, by enabling data managers to
reliably profile, cleanse, and match data —run as a standalone
Services Services Model tool or leverage within SSIS.
Efficiently Manage Data
Delivered with • Master Data Services: Help create, maintain, store, and access
master data structures used for object mapping, reference data,
2012 metadata management with Master Data Services (MDS), while a
new MDS Add-in for Excel makes it easy for end users to manage
and maintain central data.
¹Source: “Turning Pain into Productivity with Master Data Management,” Aberdeen Group, Feb 2011
9. Scalable Analytics &
Data Warehousing
Achieve scale and flexibility with analy tic and data
warehousing solutions that offer massive scale at
low cost
Flexibility and Choice
>24TB
“Parallel Data
• Hardware and deployment options: Suit unique organizational
Warehouse runs needs with Fast Track configurations from 11 hardware vendors
or software only solutions, reference architectures and appliances.
complex queries ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS²
• Optimized Solutions: Leverage best practices and drive fast
about 160 times faster, time to market with data warehouse reference architectures and
providing a data load appliances that help deliver faster time to solution.
>600TB
over 1 Tb/Hour and Massive Scale at Low Cost
fully integrates into a • Built-in Functionality: Scale data warehouses with built-in
complete BI Solution” DATA WAREHOUSES W/ TRUE MPP²
database features like Remote Blob Storage and partitioned
tables that scale to 15,000 partitions and support large sliding
DirectEdge, US Stock Exchange window scenarios.
• Support for Powerful Hardware: Gain high scale with support
for up to 256 logical cores that helps enable high-performance
for very large workloads or consolidation scenarios.
• Parallel Data Warehouse: Scale to 600+ TB while maintaining
high performance through massively parallel processing (MPP)
architecture.
Massive Scale, FLEXIBILITY Complete Complete BI Solution
Low Cost & Choice BI SOLUTION • Scalable OLAP: Deploy more than just breathtaking end user
analytics tools, SQL Server continues to deliver end-to-end BI
through easy to stand up and manage traditional OLAP and
reporting cubes that are proven to scale into the 10s of TB.
¹Source: Microsoft evidence: McLaren Electronic Systems
²MS Evidence: Yahoo & Microsoft testing
10. Scale On Demand
Scale on demand with flexible and hybrid deployment
options on your terms server to cloud
Private Cloud/
Elastic Scale
Hybrid Cloud • Self-service Deployments: Gain virtualized, on-demand
capacity and self-service provisioning & usage metering with
Microsoft private and public cloud offerings across SQL Server
2012 and SQL Azure.
• SQL Azure Federation: Support bursting scenarios by deploying
all or part of an application to SQL Azure where Auto Scale
policies create databases on-the-fly to support elastic demand.
Flexibility and Choice
Public Cloud/ • Contained Databases: Seamlessly migrate databases between
On-premises Hosted or extend apps across different instances of SQL Server and SQL
Azure with Contained Databases that define and contain the
schemas and objects required to support an application.
• License Mobility: Support Hybrid IT, a flexible deployment
environment across server and cloud, through unique licensing
Migrate apps with interoperable Connection points to use rights that allow organizations to move licenses across
Deployment Options WINDOWS AZURE server, private and public cloud.
• Data Sync: Enable new, creative hybrid application scenarios
private & public with bi-directional data synchronization between databases
across datacenter and cloud.
CLOUD OFFERINGS
Delivered with
2012
¹Source: IDC, Worldwide and Regional Public IT Cloud Services 2011–2015 Forecast,
Doc # 228485, Jun 2011
11. Fast Time To Solution
Help reduce complexity and accelerate time to solution
Pre-packaged appliances and with turn-key appliance and cloud offerings
reference architectures Scenario-optimized
• Accelerate top organizational priorities with appliances for
data warehousing of varying sizes, business intelligence,
consolidation, and transaction processing.
Business intelligence, consolidation, • SQL Server offers Appliances built jointly with HP and Dell:
• HP Enterprise Database Consolidation Appliance
• HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance
• HP Business Decision Appliance
Co-engineered with hardware partners • HP Business Data Warehouse Appliance
• Dell Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance
Complete Solutions
Hardware + software + support, reduce time • Microsoft deeply co-engineers the appliances with partners
to ensure highly tuned solutions, fully integrated , with single
support for all the Hardware and Software, with enhanced
appliance-only software, and that deliver great price/
performance.
“The appliance can be deployed in a matter of days vs. Agility
• Speed time to solution with SQL Server appliances by
weeks or months for traditional implementations.” eliminating the time to design, tune and test all the related
hardware and software components.
Brian Knight
Pragmatic Works • Provision databases in minutes without any physical
administration or infrastructure investments with SQL Azure.
12. Optimized Productivity
Optimize IT and developer productivity across server and
cloud with common tools
Build
• SQL Server Data Tools: Take database development to the next level
with SQL Server Data Tools, an integrated development experience
for developers building next-generation web, enterprise and data-
aware mobile applications across on-premises and public cloud.
• T-SQL Enhancements: Simplify complex programming tasks with
78%
T-SQL enhancements and ease database migrations with improved
support for ANSI SQL standards. Additionally, the new Sequence
object enables developers to tie unique row identifiers across
multiple tables.
TOTAL COST OF
ADMINISTRATION SAVINGS Extend
Common Tools OVER ORACLE¹
• Common tools: Build, extend, and manage database or business
intelligence solutions across on-premises and cloud environments
using the same development tools, frameworks and T-SQL based
model.
Manage
• SQL Server Management Studio: Manage efficiently at scale with
a single console to deploy and manage database assets across
servers, private cloud and public cloud. Additionally, use SSMS to
manage high availability configurations, BI services, and resource
new unified
DEV EXPERIENCE
Build, extend utilization.
• Automate infrastructure maintenance tasks, streamline
& manage apps anywhere troubleshooting and diagnostics and optimize hardware
resources with built-in easy-to-use manageability tools.
• Streamline virtualization management with System Center
Virtual Machine Manager.
• Support for Windows PowerShell 2.0 automates management
tasks across the Microsoft platform.
¹Source: Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle® Database: A Comparative Study on Total
Cost of Administration (TCA), Alinean, Jan 2010
13. Extend Any Data, Anywhere
Ex tend the reach of data most anywhere across server
“The total worldwide volume of data is growing and/or cloud with expansive developer technologies
at 59% per year, with the number of files
Complete data management
growing at 88% per year.¹” • Support for Any Data: Manage and extend relational and non-
relational data including XML data, Windows files, and spatial
information.
Gartner estimates that 70-85%
Enhanced search functionality
of data is ‘unstructured’¹
15% • Statistical Semantic Full-Text Search: Enable T-SQL developers
to bring deep insight to the organization within non-structured
data files stored in the SQL Server database by uncovering
previously undiscovered relationships across stored files.
85%
Seamlessly extend data
• OData: Provide a consistent and open data-feed to power
multiple user experiences across the web, devices and desktop
with OData, an open protocol built on widely used web
Unstructured Structured standards.
• SQL Azure DataMarket: Monetize accumulated data by
publishing data for purchase and consumption by other
entities.
Greater
• Enhanced interop support: Extend heterogeneous
More storage
&
environments by connecting to SQL Server and SQL Azure
options for applications using any industry standard APIs (ADO.NET, ODBC,
unstructured data interop JDBC, PDO, and ADO) across varied platforms including .NET,
C/C++, Java, and PHP.
Delivered with
2012
¹Source: Gartner Symposium Presentation ‘Information Management Goes ‘Extreme’:
The Biggest Challenges for 21st-Century CIOs, Mark Beyer, October 2011