IDERA-MICROSOFT OVERVIEW

Idera delivers a new generation of tools for managing and administering the world's fastest growing database management system—Microsoft SQL Server. Idera has partnered closely with Microsoft to deliver industry leading solutions that are battle-proven and engineered for the enterprise—helping DBAs improve SQL Server availability, optimize performance, ease regulatory compliance, reduce administrative time, and solve SQL Server problems more quickly.

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Idera-Microsoft Alliance

Idera is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a member of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Ascend Program, which provides with early access to SQL Server 2005 technology. Idera has also participated in the development of SQL Server 2005 by providing Microsoft with plans and scripts for testing SQL Server 2005. Additionally, Idera works closely with the SQL Server marketing and development team in Redmond, WA, and Idera products are tested at Microsoft Technology Center labs, Finally, Microsoft is an Idera customer. Idera's SQL diagnostic manager product is used by the Microsoft AIT division to improve SQL Server performance monitoring and analysis.

Idera is wholly focused on SQL Server, enabling us to build all products using strategic Microsoft technologies such as .Net, SQL Reporting Services, and Active Directory. In addition, Idera has licensed internal interfaces and instrumentation from Microsoft that enables us to obtain very granular data from within SQL Server.

Product Overview

Idera tools for SQL Server 2005 include:

Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics
Backup and Recovery
Auditing & Regulatory Compliance
Web-based Administration
Job Management
Configuration Management
Data Migration

All of Idera's solutions are easy to use; require limited SQL Server expertise; and are designed to be installed in minutes, configured in hours, and deployed worldwide in days.

Joint Value Proposition

Why Idera: Tools for SQL Server

Idera's tools for SQL Server 2005 are battle-proven, enterprise-ready, and will fundamentally change the way that SQL Server is managed and administered throughout the IT enterprise.
All of Idera's solutions are designed to be easy to use; require limited SQL Server expertise; and can be installed in minutes, configured in hours, and deployed worldwide in days.
Idera solutions dramatically reduce the complexity of database administration and increase the productivity of DBAs, allowing more time to focus on proactive IT issues.

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Partners

PPG
Idera helps PPG Industries reduce SQL Server backup and storage costs by 70 percent.

PPG leverages SQLsafe—Idera's high-performance backup and recovery product—on more than 60 Microsoft SQL Servers across the United States and Canada to process more than 3,400 backups per day. PPG has huge amounts of important research and financial data in SQL Server databases, so it is critical that databases get backed up every night and can quickly be restored. In addition to reducing the amount of time and expense spent on SQL Server backups, SQLsafe provides on-the-spot management information that helps PPG ensure that backups are performed on time and without errors.

SQLsafe—High Performance Backup and Recovery

Continental Airlines
SQL Compliance Manager helps Continental Airlines ensure that planes are safe and well maintained.

As one of the top five airlines in the United States, Continental Airlines must keep impeccable aircraft maintenance data—ensuring that maintenance and repairs are scheduled without fail on each and every aircraft around the world. Continental uses Idera SQL compliance manager to monitor maintenance information that is held in SQL Server databases. Using SQL compliance manager, they are able to track accesses, alerts, processes, and changes that may occur on these critical databases, 24 x7. They can also use SQL compliance manager to create and generate customized reports—saving hours of time.

SQL compliance manager—real-time auditing and continuous compliance

National Opinion Research Center
NORC saves over 200 percent on SQL Server management and performance monitoring with Idera.

SQL Server plays a mission-critical role at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), a national research organization specializing in complex surveys, data collection, and empirical analyses. Even minor downtime can critically affect a research project. NORC relies on Idera's SQL diagnostic manager to keep tabs on SQL Server, 24 x 7, to more effectively monitor and manage the performance of their SQL Server databases enterprise-wide; to quickly pinpoint and solve any performance issues; and for capacity planning.

SQL diagnostic manager—real-time performance monitoring and deep diagnostics

NEC Solutions America
Idera partners with NEC Solutions (America), Inc., to deliver a high-performance managed SQL Server database operations environment. Through this relationship, NEC and Idera collaborate using NEC's 64-bit Itanium® 2-based Express 5800/1000 series server and Idera's industry-leading solutions for SQL Server performance monitoring and diagnostics, backup and recovery, and auditing and compliance.

SQL Server solutions