{"id":5743,"date":"2009-07-01T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dataplatforminsider\/2009\/07\/01\/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-database-management-systems-market\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:51:55","slug":"microsoft-named-a-leader-in-database-management-systems-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2009\/07\/01\/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-database-management-systems-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft named a leader in Database Management Systems Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;\">Forrester Research has named Microsoft a leader in The Forrester Wave\u2122: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009. (June 2009). Forrester writes that Microsoft is \u201cThe most aggressive DBMS vendor with a strong road map.\u201d In this Wave, Forrester categorizes Leaders as offering \u201cbroad set of functionality to support any critical transactional application.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<!--?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" ?--><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;\">Analyst Noel Yuhanna acknowledges that Microsoft \u201cover the past three years has shown increasing focus and commitment to going after the enterprise market.\u201d And that SQL Server 2008 has \u201cenabled Microsoft to take market share in moderately sized to large enterprises, delivering good performance, scalability, security, and availability functionality.\u201d The report continues on to say that \u201cFive years ago, hardly any enterprises ran multi-terabyte databases with SQL Server to support critical applications. Today, hundreds of enterprises are running 10-terabyte and larger transactional SQL Server databases.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;\">Key findings in the report include: <\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0in;\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;\">Microsoft has done extremely well with its overall current offering, with high scores in database programmability, security, availability, and application\/data integration.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;\">SQL Server is known for its easy-to-use, simplified enterprise DBMS and for delivering the best price-performance for most business applications. Many enterprises like the breadth and depth of the packaged applications SQL Server supports across various industries.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;\">Although SQL Server lags in distributed caching and scale-out architectures, Microsoft is adding such features in future releases. For example, \u201cVelocity\u201d is a distributed caching technology that supports high-volume transactions. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;\">Read the full Forrester Research report: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/itanalyst\/docs\/06-30-09EnterpriseDatabaseManagementSystems.aspx\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/itanalyst\/docs\/06-30-09EnterpriseDatabaseManagementSystems.aspx<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;\">. <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forrester Research has named Microsoft a leader in The Forrester Wave\u2122: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009. (June 2009). 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