Informed decisions, almost instantly
- Process large event volumes across multiple data streams.
- Gain continuous insight through historical data mining.
- Lower development costs by utilizing existing skill sets.
- Reduce management complexity with easy-to-support platform.
- Tailor deployment to meet business needs.
Microsoft StreamInsight helps organizations derive insights from critical information in near real time, helping employees to analyze large amounts of event data streaming in from multiple sources. Monitor, analyze, and act on data in motion.
Consolidation through virtualization
- Reduce hardware, software, and operational costs.
- Choose a high-availability strategy that meets your needs.
- Reduce planned downtime with Live Migration.
- Enable simpler, faster deployment.
- Scale dynamically with the needs of the business.
Virtualization can consolidate your SQL Server 2008 R2 database servers to reduce hardware, software, and operational costs. Organizations can ensure business continuity at low cost, further enhance application availability, and create an agile virtualization solution that enables adaptation of the database infrastructure to accommodate changes in hardware use or capacity requirements with minimal downtime.
Perform at low cost
- Deliver the highest performance.
- Gain flexibility and choice.
- Reduce data-warehousing costs.
- Gain support for a hub-and-spoke architecture.
Today’s enterprise depends on rapidly growing volumes of quality data for critical business insight. Manage growing data volumes, integrate with Microsoft business intelligence solutions, and scale a data warehouse to perform across hundreds of terabytes of data with SQL Server 2008 R2.
Choose from four distinct offerings that meet any data-warehousing need, from small to large: Enterprise, Datacenter, Fast Track Data Warehouse, and Parallel Data Warehouse.
Use a highly flexible hub-and-spoke architecture to enhance agility. Easily repurpose resources as business needs change.
Accelerate deployment and minimize risk with preconfigured hardware and reference architecture from leading vendors.
Keep business in business
- Keep critical applications running.
- Ensure continual access to data.
- Recover quickly from downtime.
- Simplify data-recovery installation.
- Make data-recovery management easier.
- Meet service-level agreements.
Mission-critical applications require nonstop access to data. High-availability technologies in SQL Server 2008 R2 help customers meet business continuity goals at a low total-cost-of-ownership.
Keep data available, no matter what happens, with database mirroring, log shipping, and failover clustering.
Perform maintenance tasks without taking down the database, reducing outages and associated costs.
Bring services back quickly from downtime with monitoring, backup, and diagnostic tools.
Scale, on your terms
- Enjoy industry-leading performance.
- Gain from the highest levels of scale.
- Optimize application performance.
- Scale up or scale out hardware.
- Improve query performance.
- Maximize instance usage.
With expanded scalability in SQL Server 2008 R2, you can realize the scale and performance you’ve always wanted.
Keep pace with growing data volumes and business needs.
Take full advantage of the latest multicore hardware, with expanded support for up to 256 logical processors and maximum operating-system memory limits.
Peruse third-party benchmarks that validate SQL Server as being among the top database software for performance.*
Secure organizational data
- Ensure compliance with policies.
- Provide transparent encryption.
- Give specific access to specific users.
- Consolidate key management.
- Provide fast, granular auditing.
- Address needs around regulations.
The built-in security and compliance capabilities in SQL Server 2008 R2 provide effective configuration management, strong authentication and access control, powerful encryption and key management capabilities, and configurable auditing.
Protect valuable information with centrally managed, enterprise-class security capabilities that meet strict internal and external policies.
Take advantage of a database solution that has been audited for HIPAA and PCI Data Security Standard Compliance. Rest easy, knowing that SQL Server 2008 Enterprise completed a Common Criteria IT security evaluation at the Basic Assurance Level EAL1+.
Provide granular access control to a database environment that is secure by design.
