Appliances

Appliances are complete software, hardware, and support solutions optimized for SQL Server.

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    A complete solution that is simple to deploy, high performing, highly secure, and energy efficient. By deploying an appliance, businesses reduce investment, accelerate time to value, and enable IT to focus on other priorities.

    For IT decision makers with the most demanding data warehouses, the Microsoft and Dell Parallel Data Warehouse appliance offers massive scalability to hundreds of terabytes and high performance through an massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture built on proven Dell hardware.

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    Key Capabilities

    • Up to 50x performance gains with the xVelocity updateable columnstore.
    • Up to 100x performance gains over legacy warehouses.
    • Seamless integration with “Big Data” using PolyBase.
    • Multi-petabyte data capacity.
    • Energy efficient hardware with enterprise-level performance.
    • Reduced risk through pretested configurations.

    Built on Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) technology, The Dell Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance delivers blazingly fast performance at much higher scale than traditional single multiprocessing (SMP) systems.

    Dell Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance
    Built on SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse technology

    Microsoft has joined forces with leading hardware partners to create a portfolio of SQL Server Appliances highly tuned and optimized for specific workloads.

    SQL Server Appliances
    Deploy in Days, Not Months

    The Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance with SQL Server 2012 enables organizations to quickly and easily implement a cost-effective solution that integrates hardware and software, is quick to deploy, and easy to manage. It is designed, tested, and optimized for data warehouses in small to medium sized businesses and departmental usage.

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    Key Capabilities

    • Preconfigured platform that's fast to setup and easy to maintain.
    • High-capacity and blazing-fast performance accelerate your queries and save you time.
    • One price for the whole package includes installation, setup, training, 12-months of Dell support, and all required software and hardware.

    The Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance with SQL Server 2012 is built on the proven SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Architecture.

    Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance
    High performance through optimized hardware and software

    Microsoft has joined forces with leading hardware partners to create a portfolio of SQL Server Appliances highly tuned and optimized for specific workloads.

    SQL Server Appliances
    Deploy in Days, Not Months

    Take advantage of the HP AppSystem for PDW. Leverage this appliance to build enterprise data warehouses that scale with your data, improve query performance for users, and reduce your IT cost. The HP AppSystem for PDW offers massive scale at low cost for single rack appliances up to large scale Data Warehouses.

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    Key Capabilities

    • Up to 50x performance gains with the xVelocity updateable columnstore.
    • Up to 100x performance gains over legacy warehouses.
    • Seamless integration with “Big Data” using PolyBase.
    • Multi-petabyte data capacity.
    • 2.5x lower price per terabyte than SQL Server 2008 R2 PDW and lowest price per terabyte in industry.

    The HP Enterprise Data Warehouse appliance offers massive scale at low cost for single rack appliances up to large scale Data Warehouses.

    HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance
    Predictable, high performance data warehousing

    Find out more about the appliances, and how to buy one.

    SQL Server Appliances
    Deploy in Days, Not Months