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PR Contact:Hadley Weinzierl [email protected]
With 21 Microsoft Partner of the Year awards and more than 16 Microsoft Gold competencies, EMC Corp. helps customers transform IT and confidently leverage cloud computing for Microsoft SQL Server. http://www.emc.com/solutions/application-environment/microsoft/index.htm
EMC will provide broad technology support, new Proven™ Solutions and Consulting Services for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to help make SQL Server ready for mission-critical datacenter applications.
By leveraging EMC best-in-class technology and services with the latest SQL Server functionality, customers can increase performance and maximize data availability at a lower cost.
New EMC Consulting Services provide customers with a defined path for seamless migration and adoption of SQL Server 2012 and help establish a platform to turn SQL Server data into business intelligence (BI) and competitive advantage.
EMC has proven expertise and leadership in mission-critical app environments (Source: IDC Storage User Demand Study, 2011 – Spring Edition: Unlocking the Minds of Storage Users, doc #230148, September 2011.)
EMC Infrastructure Effect For Microsoft SQL Server:
Deliver increasing levels of services for mission-critical apps
Enable more efficiency and lower TCO
Supports MS 9S & protection, performance
PR Contact:Beth [email protected]
The HP and Microsoft global strategic alliance is one of the longest-standing alliances of its kind in the industry. Its goal is helping businesses around the world improve services through innovative technologies.
HP and Microsoft are collaborating on SQL Server 2012 solutions. HP is also providing leadership in SQL Server solutions and readiness for SQL Server 2012.
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PR Contacts:Cindy McKendry
SAP AG helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device, SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently.
Through cooperation on SQL Server 2012, Microsoft and SAP are helping organizations achieve mission-critical confidence by running SAP applications on the SQL
More than 35,000 SAP installations are on SQL Server.
Hundreds of SAP customers have a SQL Server database size greater than 1 TB even when using SQL Server Database
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Server platform. More than 35,000 installations of SAP applications run on Microsoft SQL Server, and more than 75,000 SAP installations run on the Windows platform. The solutions are optimized to work within SAP landscapes — they are scalable, high-performing and highly available.
In this Virtual Launch Event, case studies of customers Accenture, BMW Egypt (EMEA), EMI Music (EMEA), FUJIFILM (APJ), Arçelik (EMEA), CSR Limited (APJ), Kimball International (NA) and Lockheed Martin (NA) running SAP solutions on SQL Server will be highlighted, and details will be provided on how Microsoft runs its own business on SAP solutions. For specific information, please see the SQL Server for SAP page.
Compression. The largest database volumes of
SAP customer implementations are close to 20 TB uncompressed.
More than 75,000 SAP installations are on the Windows Server platform.
PR Contact:Charlie Zaragoza [email protected]
Accenture and Avanade blend in-depth Microsoft expertise, global scale and cloud-based capabilities to build industry-specific solutions based on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and the SQL Appliance platform for energy, financial services and retail organizations.
Avanade Intelligent Warehousing, built on Microsoft SQL Server 2012, provides the agile, iterative approach needed to reduce cost and risk while ensuring that everyone in your organization can make informed decisions using the same data.
Our solution provides easily understood visuals of reliable, relevant information using Microsoft Power View. With a deeper understanding of your organizational data, you can effectively streamline operations, increase customer satisfaction and gain competitive advantage.
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The Intelligent Warehousing solution mitigates the risks and failures of data warehouse implementations because our data models are based upon global experience. Working with you, we create a road map, enabling business process functionality and analysis that speeds the delivery because baseline elements have been defined.
Avanade Intelligent Warehousing solution value:* Fast time to market* Low total cost of ownership* Improved business performance
PR Contact:Jessica [email protected]
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver both outstanding cost efficiency and business performance breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping organizations around the world go further, faster at netapp.com.
NetApp storage solutions are built on a unified architecture and help companies cut costs, increase availability and improve data portability with SQL Server 2012.
Cut costs. NetApp helps companies lower costs with storage efficiency technologies such as space-efficient SnapShots, Thin Provisioning, RAID-DP and FlexClone copies for development and test, as well as SQL Server reporting services.
Increase availability. NetApp SnapManager for SQL Server 2012 will provide enhanced support for near-instant backups and rapid restore of SQL Server 2012 databases, including AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012. NetApp Data ONTAP 8 in Cluster-Mode also enables nondisruptive operations and dynamic scaling for storage infrastructure upgrades and maintenance.
Improve data portability. NetApp will
“Microsoft has given customers an important new choice with enhanced support for SMB in SQL Server 2012. NetApp unified storage allows customers to run SQL Server on SAN, and now also on SMB file shares, to dramatically reduce storage infrastructure and management overhead. In test/development environments, DBAs no longer need to worry about SAN connectivity to create zero-space clones of databases in seconds, accelerating productivity and time to market. The increased flexibility of SMB makes SQL Server consolidation and virtualization easier, enabling additional cost savings with storage efficiency, increased utilization, and simpler HA and DR solutions.”— Phil Brotherton, vice president of the Enterprise Storage Group at NetApp
ease access to SQL Server 2012 databases on shared storage from different systems and virtual machines using storage area network (SAN) and Server Message Block (SMB) on Network Attached Storage (NAS). Providing access to shared data on NAS is as simple as mapping a drive versus more complex storage provisioning processes associated with traditional SAN systems.
PR Contact:Laura Bonamici [email protected]
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services.
Fujitsu solutions highlights with reference to Microsoft SQL Server 2012:
• Mission-critical confidence• Complete data warehouse solutions• Cloud on your terms
“Customers who are already enjoying the cost savings of running enterprise computing applications on the Windows platforms can now also enjoy the peace of mind that Fujitsu’s FlexFrame for SAP brings to entire SAP environments. The seamless integration of infrastructure and application management is a perfect fit with Microsoft’s private cloud strategy for business-critical applications.”— Thomas Schröder, general manager, Enterprise and Partner Group Microsoft Germany
PR Contact:Suzy [email protected]
Decades of collaboration between Microsoft and Intel Corporation deliver datacenter innovations with industry-leading performance, agility and energy efficiency from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 running on the Intel® Xeon® processor family.
Collaborative performance engineering. Microsoft and Siemens collaborated to optimize performance and scalability of Teamcenter and SQL Server 2012, part of the optimized ecosystem for the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family, and technologies from all three companies complement one another for excellent results.
Extraordinary scalability. As benchmark testing scaled upward to 10,000 concurrent users, Siemens Teamcenter and a Microsoft software stack on the Intel Xeon processor E7 family ran with stable transaction-response times and an average processor utilization for SQL Server of less than 13 percent.
Performance and scalability. SQL Server 2012 and Siemens Teamcenter support the largest Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) deployments, with up to 160 threads and four terabytes of RAM in an eight-socket server based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family.
Mission-critical dependability. The reliability, availability and serviceability features of the Intel Xeon processor E7 family help systems recover from errors to protect mission-critical implementations of SQL Server 2012 and Siemens Teamcenter.
Advanced manageability. Platform features help IT administrators proactively monitor and manage systems
Mission-critical enablement. SQL Server 2012 introduces more than 175 new features, many of which benefit mission-critical implementations of Siemens Teamcenter and help take advantage of the reliability, availability and serviceability features of the Intel Xeon processor E7 family.
running SQL Server 2012 and Siemens Teamcenter.
“SQL Server 2012 takes full advantage of the scalability features of the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family: eight sockets or more, 10 cores and 20 threads per socket, and up to 4 TB of RAM in an eight-socket configuration. The processors help boost availability by healing failing connections and recovering from data errors, as well as by supporting redundancy and failover for key system components.”— Pauline Nist, general manager, Mission Critical Segment, Intel
PR Contact:John [email protected]
NEC Corp. is a leading provider of innovative IT, network, communications and biometrics products and solutions that benefit businesses and people around the world. For more information, visit http://www.nec.com.
NEC is announcing that it has engineered its Express5800/A1080a (GX) scalable servers and Express5800/R320a Fault Tolerant servers to deliver the high performance and availability standards required to run mission-critical database workloads and large analytic applications on SQL Server 2012.
NEC’s GX scalable servers for SQL Server 2012 offer built-in support for complex data types, greater interoperability with varied platforms, and common IT and development tools.
NEC scalable enterprise servers provide configuration flexibility, capacity, reliability and performance, plus virtualized, on-demand capacity and self-service provisioning and usage metering.
NEC fault tolerant servers with lockstep processing and redundant components help ensure continuous uptime.
“The SQL Server 2012 on NEC platforms is scalable to unique datacenter requirements. Through our work with Microsoft, our customers are able to meet the high performance and availability demanded from virtualized environments while maximizing IT cost efficiency.”— Mike Mitsch, vice president, IT platform products, NEC Corp. of America
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OpenText Corp. is a global leader in developing content and process management solutions for the Microsoft ecosystem, offering solutions that span archival, governance, document capture,
OpenText’s core enterprise content management and business process management offerings will be using SQL Server 2012 to ensure customers
“Our customers are continually pushing for new and more powerful ways of dealing with the explosion of data and content across their organizations. As a
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faxing, records management, business process management, case management and more.
benefit fully from the latest advances in performance, scalability and security.
Benchmarks show that on a single instance of SQL Server 2012, OpenText Email Monitoring for Microsoft Exchange can process millions of email per day, scaling to meet the needs of the most demanding enterprise customers.
Microsoft Global Launch Partner, OpenText is well-positioned to help our enterprise content management customers take advantage of the new capabilities in SQL Server 2012 around performance, scalability, security and information access. We see this important new technology supporting our mission to help enterprises claim, control and capitalize on content.”— Lubor Ptacek, vice president of Strategic Marketing and general manager of the Microsoft Solutions Group at OpenText
PR Contact:Corie [email protected]
Dell Inc. listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. For more information, visit http://www.dell.com.
Dell has a rich history of partnership with Microsoft and is testing and developing solutions and services in preparation for SQL Server 2012 general availability.
Announced Feb. 27, Dell and Microsoft have entered beta testing on the Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance, which is based on the new Dell PowerEdge servers and Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
The appliance is designed to help midmarket and departmental users easily organize, access and analyze data, enabling them to take advantage of BI to make more informed decisions.
As part of general availability of SQL Server 2012, Dell will be preparing Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Architectures based on 12G hardware configurations.
Dell, historically Microsoft’s largest LAR for SQL, views Microsoft as a key partner for database solutions.
”Dell is extremely excited about the co-development, multiple points of integration and services capabilities developed in support of the first data warehouse appliance based on SQL Server 2012. With the Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance, which runs on SQL Server 2012, and the new Dell 12G servers, we’re able to make BI accessible for the mid-market.”— Ben Linder, executive director, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Temenos Group AG is a global provider of banking systems in the retail, corporate, universal, private, Islamic, microfinance and community banking markets, serving more than
TEMENOS T24 on Microsoft SQL Server delivers modern core banking technology to enable banks to accelerate innovation by reducing
Temenos has won the Financial Services Partner of the Year award for two years running (2010 and 2011).
700 customers in over 120 countries. time to market for new products, as well as greater customer support, and risk and operational understanding with our market-leading BI offering: Insight.
TEMENOS T24 on SQL Server 2012 delivers high scalability with a lower total cost of ownership and increased flexibility and agility to a market that has traditionally been hampered by legacy systems.
In our recent benchmark, at peak performance, the system processed 11,500 transactions per second in online business testing and averaged more than 10,000 interest accrual and capitalizations per second during close-of-business testing, processing 25 million capitalizations and account accruals in less than 42 minutes. The testing showed a near linear scalability of 95 percent as the number of agents was increased.
Dassault Systèmes provides businesses and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading 3D design software, 3-D Digital Mock-Up and PLM solutions transform the way products are designed, produced and supported.
PLM Express support for SQL Server as the primary database for on premises to store product data for midsize customers.
ENOVIA V5 and V6 support SQL Server as the primary database to store product data. SQL Server provides a cost-effective enterprise platform. The combination of the ENOVIA PLM solution and Microsoft SQL Server provides an easy-to-manage centralized source of data.
SolidWorks is the leading entry MCAD solution on the market and is only available on the Windows platform. SolidWorks has an ISV royalty agreement in place for SQL Server.
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3DVIA Model Store is a new and ready-to-use business solution for brand manufacturers and retailers that supports SQL Server as the primary database to store product data and virtual experiences. It enables users to realistically simulate retail settings inside immersive, lifelike 3-D environments to better imagine, validate and deploy optimum shopping experiences.
PR Contact:Belinda Banks(609) [email protected]
Panorama Software offers a new generation of BI solutions that leverage social decision-making and automated insights to enable users to gain insights more quickly, more efficiently and with greater relevancy.
Panorama offers a comprehensive BI suite built on top of SQL Server 2012, including social BI, advanced analytics and contextual discovery.
Necto allows users to work OLAP, in-memory, Excel services, reporting services, etc., for a single unified platform into their analysis.
Necto is now available on SQL Server 2012.
Necto provides seamless integration for Necto users on SQL Server 2012 and allows Necto customers to connect to their data leveraging the new SQL Server In-Memory technology.
PR Contact:Yvonne DonaldsonOffice: (713) 335-5310Cell: (713) [email protected]
PROS is the world leader in profitability management and optimization software solutions. With this software, companies can increase revenues, market share and profitability by removing uncertainty from complex pricing processes and decisions.
Innovation is core to PROS’ DNA, and it is in the early launch of the SQL Server 2012 Rapid Deployment Program. Its manufacturing, distribution and services customers are moving toward SQL Server as their database of choice, based on the quality of the technology and its price and performance.
PROS has been managing “big data” for more for more than 25 years, and SQL Server 2012 provides additional capabilities that will help customers take advantage of this even more powerful platform. PROS has capabilities that will be enabled based on SQL Server 2012 technology.
PROS and Microsoft have a long-standing relationship, and PROS has
PROS’ support of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 will be prominently featured in the next release of the PROS Product Solutions Suite scheduled for Q1.
Approximately 80 percent of pricing customers use Microsoft SQL Server, and that number continues to grow.
“At PROS, we’ve managed big data for more than 25 years, working with customers to help them grow their businesses amidst industry deregulation, volatility in raw materials and currency fluctuations, and today’s globally competitive marketplace. We’ve seen a substantial increase in our customers’ interest in Microsoft SQL Server, and today approximately 80 percent of our pricing customers use the platform. With the game-changing power of SQL Server
achieved designation as a “Globally Managed Partner.” They work together, gain access to early insights and announce side-by-side at the time of launch, which provides high value to customers.
2012 and the strength of our relationship with Microsoft, our customers will be able to take advantage of new capabilities on the PROS platform that are enabled by this new version.”— John Salch, PROS vice president of Technology
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PTC enables manufacturers to achieve maximum value from their product strategies with software and services designed to optimize key business processes throughout the entire product lifecycle — from conception and design to sourcing and service.
X Fast Facts Approximately 6,100 employees in
30 countries around the world 18 global R&D locations 1,300 dedicated service
professionals More than 800 partners, including
value-added resellers, enterprise software and performance team partners, hardware and system integration partners, and service and training partners.
Founded in 1985 Markets served:
- Aerospace and defense- Automotive- Electronics and high-tech- Industrial- Retail and consumer- Medical device
PR Contact:Ashleigh Young [email protected]
Redknee is a leading global provider of real-time converged billing and customer care software for service providers around the globe. It serves over 90 network operators in more than 50 countries.
As part of their strategic alliance, Redknee and Microsoft conducted a comprehensive performance and scalability benchmark of Redknee TCB running on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The high-water benchmark testing was conducted at the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center in Redmond, Wash., in November and December 2011. The testing included a real-world mix of prepaid and postpaid transactions, defined by Redknee, to represent typical transactions for a global tier-1 communications service provider with an extensive customer base. The
With new customer demands, new service offerings and increasing competition, operators need agile billing solutions to match their changing business strategies. Redknee TCB is an end-to-end solution that delivers centralized BI, personalized subscriber experience, and a full suite of billing and customer care capabilities, leveraging Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft SQL Server and enabling operators around the globe to differentiate from the competition and maximize profitability.
Redknee, Microsoft, NEC, Intel and X-IO
results of the benchmark testing were extremely impressive and demonstrated a near-linear application scalability as the number of subscribers increased.
At peak performance, the system processed an average throughput of 1,249 invoices per second and mediated an average of 113,402 CDRs per second. The benchmark test of 250 million subscribers exceeded the performance objectives on both invoicing and mediation, generating 26 million invoices within a six-hour billing cycle while mediating 4.9 billion CDRs within twelve hours. In addition, the test showed a reduction of storage space up to 80 percent, significantly reducing physical IO requirements.
work together to provide solutions that address the most demanding needs of communications service providers around the world in the most cost-effective way, while offering the agility to respond to the business and technology opportunities of tomorrow.
The Redknee, Microsoft, NEC, Intel and X-IO scalability and performance benchmark proves that SQL Server 2012 can provide record-breaking performance for Redknee TCB. These results make the combination of Redknee TCB, Microsoft, NEC, Intel and X-IO technologies an increasingly compelling proposition for even the largest communications service providers.
PR Contacts:Elisabetta [email protected]
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Tagetik is 100 percent dedicated to simplifying and streamlining business processes for the office of finance. Tagetik was named Microsoft ISV/Software Line of Business Partner of the Year for 2011.
The achievements of the relationship between Microsoft and Tagetik during the past several years include Tagetik winning the prestigious Microsoft ISV/Software Line of Business Partner of the Year award in 2011, and the launch of a major release of the application platform named “Tagetik 4.0 Enabled by Microsoft SharePoint.”
Tagetik has been working with Microsoft during the development and testing phases of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, allowing Tagetik’s customers to take full advantage of the improvements and enhancements by fully leveraging the new SQL Server 2012 features and the SharePoint front-end.
New functionality in SQL Server 2012 will provide Tagetik’s customers with in-memory analytics through the new Analysis Services tabular models;
Tagetik 4.0 takes full advantage of the brand-new Microsoft SQL Server 2012 technology, equipping the office of finance with in-memory analytics, easy-to-use dashboard capabilities and powerful self-service BI.
New functionality in SQL Server 2012 will provide customers with breakthrough insight via managed self-service data exploration and stunning interactive data visualization capabilities.
“This release of SQL Server is another example of how our strong technology partnership with Microsoft benefits our customers. The partnership enables us to focus our efforts on what we do best — understanding and addressing the needs of the office of finance — while Microsoft focuses on what they do best — providing high-performance technology on premises and in the cloud.”— Dave Kasabian, corporate vice
greater confidence with uptime, blazing-fast query and reporting performance; enhanced security features for mission-critical workloads; and greater decision-making capabilities.
president of Product Marketing at Tagetik
PR Contact:Pam [email protected]
http://www.cisco.com The Cisco Unified Data Center provides a complete datacenter infrastructure architecture for Microsoft SQL Server environments. It combines compute, storage, network, security and management into a fabric architecture that delivers outstanding performance for business applications.
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is an optimum platform for SQL Server environments.
UCS is the fastest-growing compute platform — 10,000 new enterprise customers in less than two years.
The Extended Memory capability in UCS affords tremendous performance and scalability options for enterprise customers.
Epicor Software Corp. is a global leader delivering business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail and services industries. Epicor has more than 20,000 customers in over 150 countries.
Epicor is excited to support Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in employing the rapid data exploration and visualization capabilities Power View will offer. Microsoft’s new in-memory capabilities will afford much faster data analysis, deeper insights and easier navigation for customers leveraging Epicor Enterprise Performance Management solutions. The highly interactive, Web-based user interface offers clever reporting and analytics navigation that builds up data graphically on the fly, while PowerPivot for Excel 2010 with advanced analytic capabilities will enable users to plow through a mass of data in a familiar format at much faster speeds.
PR Contact:Mike [email protected]
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match.
TCS intends to provide Think, Build and Operate offerings for its customers around SQL Server 2012.
TCS is in the process of suggesting solutions that leverage the new features and functionality of SQL
TCS is in the process of migrating the Global Operations Solution to SQL Server 2012.
TCS has started the process of suggesting SQL Server 2012 features as a road map to existing customers, as well as to
Server 2012.
TCS intends to develop, educate and support solutions that leverage the new features of SQL Server 2012 to help improve the consistency, stability, usability and operational efficiency and to highlight features that help reduce the cost of development for TCS’s existing and new customers.
enhance the existing applications.
PR Contact:David [email protected]
OSIsoft delivers PI System, the enterprise infrastructure for streaming data and events, with historization and presentation capabilities that can scale and perform to the needs of their customers’ operations and businesses.
OSIsoft, a Microsoft Global ISV partner, has received numerous Microsoft awards during recent years, including “Sustainability Partner of the Year,” “Business Intelligence 2010,” “Global ISV of the Year,” and “Office Business Application Partner of the Year.”
Built on Microsoft technology, OSIsoft’s PI System 2010 provides a real-time infrastructure for data and events. The combination of the PI System and Microsoft products, such as SQL Server 2012, empowers users with familiar tools to break out of the siloed data inherent in line-of-business applications.
With OSIsoft’s PI System and SQL Server 2012, manufacturing companies and critical facilities can establish a highly interactive, real-time infrastructure enabling users to make better, more informed decisions.
SQL Server 2012 advanced self-service BI tools will provide PI users with a flexible, familiar user interface for personal analytics — allowing users to easily adapt their analytics, reports and dashboard as new requirements arise. Operational intelligence on your
Synchronized with the release of SQL Server 2012, OSIsoft has announced the release of its PI Data Access 2012 integration suite, enabling customers to immediately realize the benefits of the new software.
SQL Server 2012’s advanced self-service BI capabilities will be featured at OSIsoft’s annual user conference in San Francisco, April 23–25.
“SQL 2012 creates new possibilities for our customers. The PI System helps our customers work with huge amounts of streaming operational data and turn it into actionable information. SQL 2012 provides unprecedented ability to integrate PI System data with business data. The combination is going to improve the ability to store data, make sense of it, visualize it and, in the end, make better decisions.”— Jon Peterson, vice president of Marketing, OSIsoft
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PR Contact:Tom Clary(469) [email protected]
Invensys is a leading provider of automation and information technology, systems, software solutions, services, and consulting to global manufacturing and infrastructure industries. Invensys solutions are used by more than 40,000 clients.
Invensys Operations Management enables clients to collaborate across their systems and enterprises in real time. The company’s products and solutions help customers synchronize operations from the plant floor to the executive offices, extracting critical data to make faster, better decisions and more ably align production goals with business objectives.
The company provides a unique portfolio of open-platform solutions spanning the controls floor to the enterprise, including process control systems, operations management software and collaboration/integration solutions. Coupled with its partner network of 3,000 integrators, Invensys provides unparalleled value to its customers.
Microsoft and Invensys Operations Management have had a strategic relationship, encompassing joint product development, integrated technology road maps and overall philosophy toward providing operations management solutions to industry for more than 25 years.
In recognition of its achievements, Invensys was awarded the 2011 ISV Industry Partner of the Year:
SQL Server is a foundational element of the company’s Operations Management solutions.
Bundles with some of the company’s key Wonderware products, including Historian, System Platform, InTouch, Corporate Energy Management,
New functionality in SQL Server 2012 will provide Invensys customers with superior high-availability and reliability, improved development and configuration management, and self-service BI for better monitoring, analysis and management of their real-time operations.
Invensys intends to introduce an updated version of its Wonderware Historian product in support of SQL Server 2012 in the latter part of calendar year 2012.
“The concept of self-service BI is huge for manufacturing. Our approach to manufacturing intelligence brings together many disparate information sources from process and production systems so plant personnel can make better business decisions in real time. We want to make it very easy for the end-user to consume, visualize and just sort of make sense of that data by giving it to them at the right time and within the right context. We are encouraged because we think we will be able to build SQL Server 2012, which will help us accomplish our goal.”— Rob McGreevy, vice president, platform and applications for Invensys Operations Management
Intelligence, MES, IntelaTrac and Workflow, as well as Avantis PRO EAM.
SQL provides the real-time data storage/archive and management. It is the foundation for vigorous, real-time reporting and analysis and allows Invensys customers to achieve proactive — not reactive — Operations Management improvements.
Quest Software simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT. Our solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier, saving time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
Quest advances its products with early support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 while innovating on Microsoft SQL Azure to enable integrators with Quest solutions to maximize SQL Server capabilities, both on-premises and in the cloud.
Quest uses SQL Server for more than 65 migration, management and administration products that drive SQL Server licenses, with 25 of those products participating in the SQL SIP program.
Quest vWorkspace exclusively uses Microsoft SQL Server for its configuration and reporting databases and typically includes an Active-Active SQL Server Enterprise Cluster that drives more SQL Server licenses.
Quest’s Spotlight provides in-depth physical, cloud and virtual SQL diagnostics of enterprise health and performance with automated alerts/actions with integrated Xpert tuning while LiteSpeed reduces your storage footprint by as much as 85 percent more than other compressed, full backup solutions.
PR Contact:Rachel Ferry [email protected]
Rackspace® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, offers its thousands of customers running Microsoft SQL Server access to SQL DBA support. More information is available at http://www.rackspace.com.
Rackspace currently has a closed beta program in place for select Rackspace customers to test Microsoft SQL Server 2012 beta software in a development environment.
Rackspace participated in the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Rapid
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a three-time Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year, Rackspace brings the latest Microsoft technologies and expertise to our customers. Currently in prerelease, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is the next major release of Microsoft database technology and will provide customers
Deployment Program and plans to update its database product portfolio to support SQL Server 2012 once Microsoft launches SQL Server 2012 for general availability.
Rackspace provides best-in-class support for Microsoft SQL Server, enabling customers to use the rich capabilities of SQL Server to improve performance, increase operational efficiencies, and save time and money. With more than 10,000 servers currently running Microsoft SQL Server and a team of database support specialists for customers requiring more extensive database support and consultative services, Rackspace has developed deep expertise in SQL database support.
with higher levels of performance, availability and scalability, compared with previous versions.
All Rackspace customers running SQL Server in a dedicated hosting environment receive Fanatical Support® service and the following SQL Server support: Installation Convenient monthly licensing —
utility pricing for SQL Server licensing is available in the Rackspace Cloud
Optional live database backup agent Basic troubleshooting assistance Standard maintenance plan
Rackspace also offers additional DBA services, such as database assessment and performance improvement services, on a time and materials basis for those customers who need even more SQL expertise.
"We’re thrilled that Rackspace had the opportunity to participate in the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Rapid Deployment Program, and we’re excited to be a part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 launch. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Rackspace brings the latest Microsoft technologies and expertise to our customers. Rackspace provides best-in-class support for Microsoft SQL Server, enabling customers to use its rich capabilities to improve performance, increase operational efficiencies and save both time and money.”— John Engates, CTO, Rackspace
