SQL Server and Business Intelligence - Solutions

Solutions for SQL Server and Business Intelligence

Reduce risk and complexity in Microsoft SQL Server deployments, upgrades, or migrations.

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Technical Documentation: EMC Long Distance Recovery for SQL Server 2005—Reference Architecture
EMC and Microsoft: Delivering Mission-Critical Microsoft SQL Server

Analyst Reports

Clipper Group: Microsoft 2008 is Here—and EMC is a Key Partner in Enabling Its Reach into Mission-Critical IT

White Papers

SQL Server 2008 Data Warehouse Deployments with EMC CLARiiON CX4 Storage Systems - Applied Technology

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Whether you're deploying, upgrading, or migrating to Microsoft SQL Server 2008, you can accelerate the entire process and ensure exceptional results with EMC Solutions for SQL Server and Business Intelligence. With the enterprise-grade capabilities of SQL Server 2008 and a powerful EMC storage infrastructure, you can reduce complexity and enable advanced consolidation throughout your entire organization.

EMC provides deep knowledge and best practices developed over almost a decade of experience with SQL Server environments. Now we're bringing this proven expertise and storage best practices to your deployment, helping you to manage your system more efficiently—while keeping scalability and availability at peak levels.

Key Benefits

Consolidation — Simplify consolidation of your SQL Server environment with best-in-class EMC SAN or IP/iSCSI-based storage solutions, improving asset utilization, reducing management costs, and increasing uptime.
Comprehensive backup and recovery — Benefit from proven backup and recovery solutions for your critical SQL applications today, providing the scalability and flexibility to grow and change with your organization.
Disaster recovery — Ensure data security and business continuity with EMC's range of solutions for disaster recovery—from local and remote replication to backup and recovery options.
Data replication — Boost productivity and increase ROI from your SQL Server 2005 deployment with high-performance data replication.

Business Examples

Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server - Optimize your backup and recovery strategy and meet SQL Server requirements for availability and recoverability.
Microsoft SQL Server Always On Technologies Program - As a Microsoft SQL Server Always On Technologies partner, EMC employs industry best practices to provide highly reliable information infrastructure solutions.
Performance Optimization for Microsoft SQL Server - EMC Performance Optimization for Microsoft SQL Server enhances your data layout, queries, interface, code reuse, and general SQL Server infrastructure to improve database performance and ensure scalability.
Upgrades and Migrations for Microsoft SQL Server - Accelerate your transition to SQL Server 2008 with proven best practices from EMC and our certified partners.

EMC will help you build your solution with the following products, services, and partners:

Business Intelligence for Storage - Add business intelligence to your storage reporting and management systems with key performance indicator-based reporting, analytics, and alerting of storage performance and capacity.
Business Intelligence System Development - Improve decision-making by tapping into disparate data sources to provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations.
Microsoft Platforms - EMC Consulting Microsoft Platforms leverages and integrates Microsoft technologies to help you plan and implement solutions.