By optimizing all hardware components for SQL Server, the reference architecture configurations will reduce the time, effort and cost of deploying data warehouse systems, according to Microsoft.

This week Microsoft announced the first step in its Project Madison strategy by releasing reference architectures through its SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse. Hardware vendors HP, Dell and ...

Microsoft is looking to bulk up SQL Server in the hopes of winning new customers and has fleshed out plans for the upcoming Datacenter and Parallel Data Warehouse versions of the popular database.

Today, Microsoft can only claim one SQL Server data warehouse in the petabyte range . But, said Kummert, "Our intent is to build data warehouses of all sizes, including well over 100TB." ...