The SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse initiative is Microsoft's latest push into the market for data warehouse systems that can handle tens, and even hundreds, of terabytes of data. Sometime in ...

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

The second announcement was the release of the Analytics Platform System (APS), the successor to SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse. Touted as “big data in a box,” it combines the SQL Server database ...

Hussain reiterated the importance of Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse in providing a high-end massively parallel processing appliance that can improve the company's query response time up ...

Microsoft will also offer a pair of premium versions, Datacenter Edition and Parallel Data Warehouse. The first includes CEP (complex event processing) capabilities and the latter allows companies ...

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 beta release of the next generation SQL Server, code named Denali, will also include column-oriented data storage. Users can now download and test the 15.3 beta.

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. The HP Enterprise ...