Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off. Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets less press than its online transaction processing ...

Microsoft is moving full steam ahead toward delivering most of its new SQL Server 2008 R2 versions to customer by May. But its high-end SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse isn't going to be ...

Panorama Software, a provider of proactive business intelligence (BI) solutions, has announced support for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse through its flagship business ...

The SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse effort will provide customers with preconfigured, pretested data warehouse systems that cost as little as $13,000 per terabyte of data, said Stuart Frost ...

Progress Software has announced the availability of database drivers for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse. Available for pre-sales registration immediately with shipment in Q2 ...

Microsoft Unveils Data Warehouse SQL Server Solutions. ... is currently "playing catch-up with rivals" that already have a scale-out technology called "shared-nothing massively parallel processing." ...

The Madison technology came to be known as SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) and is now known as Analytics Platform System (APS). The product was not exactly a smash hit.

Microsoft shipped the final community technology preview for the SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse appliance, formerly code-named Project Madison. The product was slated to be released in ...

It supports viewing and working with large scale data in Excel workbooks that can be published to SharePoint Server 2010, with PowerPivot for SharePoint. Microsoft has coined the phrase "managed" self ...

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 ...

The new offerings are part of a "SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse" program and feature hardware server products from Bull, Dell and HP. The solutions promise scalability for enterprise data ...