HP AppSystem For SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse

Built by HP and Microsoft for any data of any size for mission critical data warehouse workloads requiring flexibility, attractive price/performance and fast time-to-value.

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  • MPP Appliance That Was Built for the World of Big Data

    HP AppSystem for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse represents a complete solution.

    HP AppSystem for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse represents a complete solution for any data of any size with significant advances in performance, massive, seamless scalability, and extremely low cost per TB. With the strength and backing of HP and Microsoft’s 30 year partnership, along with highest level of co-engineering development and design, this fully assembled appliance solution is built to put the strength of our world-class people, processes, and technology into the hands of our customers so they can innovate, adapt, and unleash new business value.

    Technical Highlights

    • Built with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse

      HP AppSystem for PDW is built using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse providing a massively parallel processing appliance that was built to handle the world of “Big Data” addressing both requirements of any data volume as well as variety and velocity by providing seamless integration with Hadoop.

      • Built For Big Data: PDW introduces PolyBase to enable seamless integration between traditional data warehouses and “Big Data” deployments.
      • Built for Mission Critical Requirements: PDW is a massively parallel processing (MPP) appliance that can handle the extremes of your largest mission critical requirements of performance and scale.
      • Engineered For Optimal Value: Unlike other vendors in the data warehousing space who deliver a high-end appliance at a high price, Microsoft and HP engineered AppSystem for PDW for the lowest price/TB and highest value.

    • Co-engineered with HP and Microsoft

      Built on a partnership that spans 30 years, HP and Microsoft co-engineered HP AppSystem for PDW collaboratively to deliver a complete and integrated solution to address high-end performance, scale and integration with Big Data while lowering the costs to the customer.

      • Room to Grow When You Need it: With an updated form factor designed to minimize space and maximize expansion requirements, the new entry level ¼ rack with option to expand to 7 racks.
      • Up to 35% Lower Costs: HP AppSystem for PDW uses a hardware architecture that drives down the entry point acquisition costs of previous generation solutions.
      • Increased Performance: Higher levels of performance including up to 100x faster query performance and a 30% faster scan rate for better insights more quickly.
      • Complete end-to-end stack: Ease of deployment featuring a fully integrated stack that incorporates servers, storage, interconnects, back-up device or methodology, management software from HP and Microsoft.
      • Collaborative Support Model: Services delivered jointly under a unique collaborative support agreement between HP and Microsoft ensure customers avoid disruptions and unnecessary downtime.

    • The HP Advantage as a Trusted Partner

      HP AppSystem for PDW is built using HP ProLiant Gen8 servers which has 16 consecutive years of x86 market share leadership.

      • Built on HP ProLiant Gen8 servers featuring self-sufficient servers including leading innovation with HP ProActive Insight Architecture focusing on keeping these servers up and running without manual operations while improving application performance.
      • Familiar management tools including HP Insight Remote Support features 24x72 constant monitoring and automatic problem reporting boasting an up to 66% faster problem resolution and an up to 95% first time fix rate.
      • Unique, HP Support Pack Utility management tool suite to further reduce complexity, optimize performance and simplify management such as the ability to update 2,000 components with one click or diagnostics check to identify hardware issues.
      • Massive, global HP Support Infrastructure featuring more than 48,000 Microsoft-trained professionals—with more than 12,000 Microsoft certified—making HP one of the largest, consulting and support professional network for Microsoft environments.