Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a cloud-ready information platform that will help your organisation unlock breakthrough insights across the business, and quickly build solutions to extend data across on-premises and the public cloud. SQL Server is the data store for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and Microsoft SharePoint, meaning your most important data is stored safely, securely and reliably. WHY SQL SERVER As the foundation of the cloud-ready information platform, SQL Server 2012 will help organisations unlock breakthrough insights across the organisation as well as quickly build solutions and extend data across on-premises and public cloud backed by mission critical confidence. MISSION CRITICAL CONFIDENCE Required 9s and protection Deliver required uptime and data protection server to cloud without wasting time and money. Help reduce planned and unplanned downtime with the new integrated high availability and disaster recovery solution, SQL Server AlwaysOn. Achieve maximum application availability and data protection with options to configure active, multiple secondaries and ability to quickly fail over and recover applications. BLAZING-FAST PERFORMANCE Gain breakthrough and predictable performance backed by industry-leading benchmarks. Bet on a trusted platform that continuously leads in industry-relevant TPC-E, TPC-H and real-world application performance benchmarks. Release over release SQL Server is SAP-certified to run some of the industry's most demanding workloads. Significantly boost query performance by up to 10x for star joint and similar queries with the new ColumnStore Index. SQL SERVER EDITIONS Business Intelligence Edition Business Intelligence for Premium Self-Service and Corporate Business Intelligence. Standard Standard continues to offer basic database, reporting and analytics capabilities. Enterprise Enterprise for Mission Critical & Applications Data Warehousing.