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The HP Business Decision Appliance is a solution optimized for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and designed for enterprises that want to provide business intelligence (BI) capabilities in a pre-configured single enclosure.
In today's environment, where organizations rely on accurate and timely data for both strategic and tactical decision making, the need to have reliable business data is critical to gain competitive advantage and maintain efficiency. The HP Business Data Warehouse Appliance optimized for SQL Server 2008 R2 is designed and tuned for data marts and small-scale data warehouses, providing a single view of data across your business.
In this white paper, IDC highlights the latest research about demand for and benefits of integrated data warehousing solutions. Data warehousing solutions such as integrated hardware and software appliance as well as predefined reference configurations are discussed as two key options for deployment. The paper introduces joint HP and Microsoft data warehousing solutions and provides recommendations for large organizations evaluating data warehousing solutions for the purpose of supporting improved decision-making processes
To be responsive to an ever-changing business environment, decision-makers need easy access to information and the tools that allow them to derive new insights on demand. The HP Business Decision Appliance, designed jointly by Microsoft and HP, optimized for SQL Server 2008 and SharePoint Server 2010, supports this objective with a combination of hardware and software tuned specifically for high-performance, simpler manageability, and ease of use. Furthermore, the HP Business Decision Appliance is designed with a rapid setup process that provides these benefits from the first day.
For enterprises requiring an integrated data warehouse solution with the right price-performance ratio, the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance offers a powerful, reliable solution that scales cost-effectively to meet their data needs. This appliance makes scalable data warehousing available to more organizations by consolidating separate, dedicated database resources on a standards-based infrastructure that is easy to deploy, operate, and expand.
For your IT organization to keep pace with the business, you need a new, faster approach to infrastructure deployment-an approach that increases agility and accelerates time to application value. That's HP Converged Systems. Built on Converged Infrastructure, these systems deliver the industry's first portfolio of pre-integrated, tested, and optimized infrastructure solutions for applications running in virtual, cloud, dedicated, or hybrid environments.
Please join guest speaker IDC Analyst Carl Olofson as he discusses Enterprise Data Center challenges and why database consolidation is important and necessary. And hear from HP expert Joe Sullivan, who will discuss the HP Database Consolidation Appliance and how it addresses enterprise industry challenges. Joe will provide an overview of product architecture and details on how the appliance enables companies to build their own private cloud. This webcast will provide the latest information for simplifying your data management needs while reducing costs.
Fact: The demand to respond faster and with greater insight to business demands, based on data, is increasing. Fact: More organizations are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing for insightful decision-making.
The first appliance in the industry which consolidates and manages thousands of databases, integrates hardware, software and support and is scalable to meet your changing business needs.
Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations
Download this webcast to learn the virtual hardware design considerations for Exchange 2010, deployment using the building block approach, options for high-availability and disaster recovery and support considerations.
Virtualizing business-critical applications has become a key focus for organizations as they move along their virtualization journey. With the launch of VMware vSphere® 5, VMware is helping customers accelerate the deployment of business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, SAP and Oracle.
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