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 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 ...

SQL Server is a $5 billion business for the world's largest software company, ... the successor to SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse. Touted as “big data in a box,” it combines the SQL Server ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship database, will be generally available in May, the company said Tuesday. ... Datacenter Edition and Parallel Data Warehouse.

DeWitt leads a database research lab at Madison that is helping Microsoft with R&D for its upcoming Parallel Data Warehousing version of SQL Server 2008 R2 , formerly known as Project Madison.

Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse will be licensed separately. IN DEPTH: Microsoft issues first beta of ‘Denali’ SQL Server.

Microsoft (News - Alert). SQL Server MVPs Allan Mitchell and Jennifer Stirrup of UK-based Copper Blue Consulting have recently adapted the award-winning Attunity CDC Suite for SSIS to offer data ...

Microsoft and HP are teaming up to deliver a $2 million data warehouse appliance and four other hardware/software products in a bid to outshine recent moves by Oracle and IBM.