Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard - 1 Processor

SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard delivers a complete data management and business intelligence platform for departments and small organizations to run their applications--helping enable effective database management with minimal IT resources.

The following capabilities are new to Standard:

• Backup Compression to reduce data backups by up to 60% and help reduce time spent on backups
• Can be managed instance for Application and Multi-Server Management capabilities
• High-scale complex event processing with SQL Server StreamInsight

SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers several breakthrough capabilities that will enable your organization to scale database operations with confidence, improve IT and developer efficiency, and enable highly scalable and well managed Business Intelligence on a self-service basis for your users. Download the SQL Server 2008 R2 Trial, as well as Microsoft's complete Business Intelligence platform, including the new PowerPivot for Excel 2010 add-in now.

• Trusted, Scalable Platform
  Supporting data consistency across heterogeneous systems through SQL Server Master Data Services, enabling high-scale complex event-stream processing through SQL Server StreamInsight, and supporting scale-up scenarios for the largest available x64 and Itanium hardware (up to 256 logical processors).
• IT & Developer Efficiency
  Enabling administrators to centrally monitor and manage multiple database applications, instances or servers, accelerating the development and deployment of applications and providing improved support for virtualization through Hyper-V with Live Migration in Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Managed Self-Service BI
  Expanding powerful BI tools to all users with SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel and empowering a new class of business users to build and share powerful BI solutions with little or no IT support, while still enabling IT to monitor and manage user-generated BI solutions.

With SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft continues to be the value leader, offering rich functionality to support OLTP and BI workloads out of the box at a low cost of ownership relative to competitors. With increasing hardware innovations, SQL Server continues to be the only major database vendor who does not price per core for multi-core processors.
Built on SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers higher mission-critical scale, more efficient IT, and expanded reporting and analytics through self-service business intelligence. SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces two new premium editions to meet the needs of large scale datacenters and data warehouses.

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter -- Built on SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter is designed to deliver a high-performing data platform that provides the highest levels of scalability for large application workloads, virtualization and consolidation, and management for an organization's database infrastructure. Datacenter helps enable organizations to cost effectively scale their mission-critical environment. Key features new to Datacenter:
  • Application and Multi-Server Management for enrolling, gaining insights and managing over 25 instances
  • Highest virtualization support for maximum ROI on consolidation and virtualization
  • High-scale complex event processing with SQL Server StreamInsight
  • Supports more than 8 processors and up to 256 logical processors for highest levels of scale
  • Supports memory limits up to OS maximum
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse -- SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse is a highly scalable data warehouse appliance-based solution. Parallel Data Warehouse delivers performance at low cost through a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture and compatibility with hardware partners - scale your data warehouse from tens and hundreds of terabytes to the petabyte range. Key features new to Parallel Data Warehouse:
  • 10s to 100s TBs enabled by MPP architecture
  • Advanced data warehousing capabilities like Star Join Queries and Change Data Capture
  • Integration with SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS
  • Supports industry standard data warehousing hub and spoke architecture and parallel database copy

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