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 has said it is set to deliver most of its new SQL Server 2008 R2 versions to customer by May, but its high-end SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse will not be released in the first ...

The single node SQL Server 2008 architectures purchased now will be the smaller data marts that will act as spokes which eventually can be connected into the large data warehouse hub to be provided by ...

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 ...

Faster loading with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) – WhereScape RED will leverage the power of SSIS to load data into the staging area of the data warehouse by generating packages ...

Microsoft teams with Bull, Dell and HP to release a set of pretested reference architectures to make it easier to create data warehouses. The Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse is part ...

Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse ...