Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse

SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 is a set of reference architecture which provide the high performance and scalability of data warehouses and also reduce time of solution deployment and its cost of data thanks to the tested and preconfigured configurations.

Key advantages of Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 are:

• The improved performance: it is provided with most optimized solution architecture. Data processing rate which is shown by new configurations twice exceeds this indicator at analogs. The latest 8-processor reference architecture from NR has information processing rate to 15 GB / with that radically increases amount of the processed requests.
• Scalability: The latest configurations of HP servers of series G7 offer twice more computing opportunities, than analogs. The Fast Track 3.0 configurations are scaled up to 80 Tb on one 8-processor server now.
• The best choice of configurations from several partners: the list of Microsoft partners who HP, Dell, IBM, Bull and EMC companies already are constantly extends. Expressed Hitachi Data Systems and Fujitsu companies support of the solution, and EMC and NetApp became system providers of data storage for new configurations. The WhereScape company which developed the solution for Fast Track Data Warehouse became the first ISV partner. Several system integrators, such as Avanade, HP, EMC and Hitachi Consulting Services, also offer services for Fast Track Data Warehouse.

Microsoft proposes 3 key solutions for data warehouses: SQL Server 2008 R2, Fast Track Data Warehouse and Parallel Data Warehouse. Customers can scale the storages on the SQL platform to hundreds terabyte. Fast Track helps to increase scalability to tens terabyte while Parallel Data Warehouse is the ideal solution for high-performance workloads in hundreds terabyte.