Break free from Oracle with SQL Server Competitive Migration Offer
Break free from expensive data solutions with mysterious, frustrating pricing plans and surprise add-ons. With SQL Server, you get breakthrough in-memory performance across all workloads, mission critical high availability, and business intelligence and advanced analytics tools—all in one package.
This offer includes support services to kick-start your migration, and access to our SQL Server Essentials for the Oracle Database Administrator training. Dive into key features of SQL Server through hands-on labs and instructor-led demos, and learn how to deploy your applications—on-premises or in the cloud.
Act now, training and services are only available through June 30, 2016.
Claim your offer:
Engage your account executive to begin the process
Identify application workloads to migrate and specify the SQL Server cores required
Enroll in a new/renewed Server Cloud Enrollment (SCE) (SCE has a minimum requirement of 50 cores and requires entire SQL Server installation to carry SA coverage)
Receive free licenses and services package to kick-start your migration (Software Assurance subscription is required and services only available through June 30, 2016)
Prove migration via deployment report, letter from CIO, or partner proof of execution (POE)
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Five Reasons You'll Love Everything Built in to SQL Server 2016
Check out the new SQL Server 2016—the first database that is born in the cloud, setting a new standard for the pace of innovation.
Five reasons to love the new SQL Server 2016:
Industry leader in mission-critical - SQL Server 2016 delivers breakthrough mission-critical capabilities in scalability, performance, and availability for your most important OLTP and data warehousing workloads.
Scale up to 12 TB of memory and 640 logical processors with Windows Server 2016
Reach up to 30x faster transactions and 100x faster queries with enhanced in-memory performance
Run real-time Operational Analytics over transactional data
Balance loads across readable secondaries in Always On availability groups
Most secure database - Our multi-layered approach to security has a proven track record of producing the least vulnerable database, even while being the most widely-used database on the planet.
Rely on a database with the least vulnerabilities of any major platform—six years in a row
Protect data at rest and in motion with TDE and new Always Encrypted
Mask sensitive data with minimal application impact using Dynamic Data Masking
Grant access based on user characteristics with Row Level Security
Comprehensive business intelligence - SQL Server 2016 delivers a comprehensive, on-premises, enterprise-ready BI platform that helps you to transform complex data into actionable insights.
Create modern reports and visualize dense data with additional chart types
Access KPIs and mobile and paginated reports using the SQL Server Reporting Services web portal
Get faster SQL Server Analysis Services performance with parallel processing
Use enhanced multidimensional models in SQL Server Analysis Services
Easily set up SQL Server Data Tools Preview in Visual Studio 2015
In-database advanced analytics - Built-in advanced analytics provide scalability and performance for building and running your advanced analytics algorithms directly in the core SQL Server transactional database.
Transform complex data from multiple sources into trusted data models using the most popular statistical modelling language
Process analytics in-place, reducing latencies and operational costs
Write models once and deploy anywhere: in-database, to the cloud, or to Linux, Hadoop, and Teradata
Access thousands of R Scripts and Models in CRAN (Common R Archival Network)
Consistent experience from on-premises to cloud - SQL Server 2016 delivers a consistent experience both on-premises and cloud. You get an exceptional experience whether data is in your datacenter, in a private cloud, or on Azure.
Dynamically stretch warm and cold data to Azure with Stretch Database
Tackle your mission-critical workloads with larger Azure virtual machine sizes
Rely on our cloud-first features, tested by millions of Azure databases
Use the skills you already have with common development and management tools and common T-SQL everywhere
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SQL Server 2016: The database for mission-critical intelligence
Joseph Sirosh - Corporate Vice President, Data Group, Microsoft as written on blogs.microsoft.com
The world around us, every business and nearly every industry, is being transformed by technology. This disruption is driven, in part, by the intersection of three trends: a massive explosion of data, intelligence from machine learning and advanced analytics, and the economics and agility of cloud computing.
While databases power nearly every aspect of business today, they were not originally designed with this disruption in mind. Traditional databases were about recording and retrieving transactions such as orders and payments very reliably, very securely and efficiently. They were designed to enable reliable, secure, mission-critical transactional applications at small to medium scale, in on-premises datacenters.
Databases built to get ahead of today’s disruptions do very fast analyses of live data in-memory as transactions are being recorded or queried. They support very low latency advanced analytics and machine learning, such as forecasting and predictive models, on the same data, so that applications can easily embed data-driven intelligence. They allow databases to be offered as a fully managed service in the cloud, in turn making it easy to build and deploy intelligent Software as a Service (SaaS) apps.
They also provide innovative security features built for a world where a majority of data is accessible over the Internet. They support 24×7 high-availability, efficient management and database administration across platforms. They therefore enable mission critical intelligent applications to be built and managed both in the cloud and on-premises. They are exciting harbingers of a new world of ambient intelligence.
We built SQL Server 2016 for this new world, and to help businesses get ahead of today’s disruptions. It supports hybrid transactional/analytical processing, advanced analytics and machine learning, mobile BI, data integration, always encrypted query processing capabilities and in-memory transactions with persistence. It is also perhaps the world’s only relational database to be “born cloud-first,” with the majority of features first deployed and tested in Azure, across 22 global datacenters and billions of requests per day. It is customer tested and battle ready.
Let me share with you what industry analysts and our customers think.
Industry analysts recognize the breadth and depth of our capabilities in data, intelligence and the cloud. Microsoft is the only company recognized as a leader across data platforms and cloud by Gartner in both vision and execution, in database, business intelligence, advanced analytics, data warehouse, cloud infrastructure and cloud application platforms.
The customers we’ve been working with in preview share our excitement and are already benefiting from new innovations, such as built-in analytics.
PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is a revenue and profit realization company that helps B2B and B2C customers achieve their business goals through data science. Royce Kallesen, senior director of Science and Research at PROS says: “Microsoft R’s parallelization and enhanced memory management on the server integrated with SQL Server provides much faster results on a common platform with built-in security.” They have realized over 100x faster advanced analytics using SQL Server and built-in Microsoft R Server.
In addition to faster analytics, the real-time in-memory processing capabilities of SQL Server are industry leading. This technology allows up to 100x faster analytics with updatable in-memory columnstores. In addition, as the only commercial database that leads simultaneously in both transaction processing (per the TPC-E benchmark) and data warehousing (per the TPC-H benchmark), SQL Server allows customers to realize incredible performance against massive data sets and gain real-time insights – across all workloads, new and existing applications.
“KPMG observed approximately 60 percent reduction in execution time and 10x table-compression gains for one of the main analytical procedures by leveraging Columnstore Indexes and Parallel Insert functions in SQL Server 2016,” says Michael S. Sellman, executive director, Global IT Services, KPMG LLP.
According to Chris Stolte, co-founder and chief development offficer of Tableau, Inc., “an average 190%+ interactive query performance improvement enables our customers to visually explore large datasets in real-time, even against transactional databases.”
With unique hybrid capabilities, any SQL Server deployment or app can span private clouds, hosted clouds and our public cloud, Microsoft Azure. New Stretch Database technology allows customers to dynamically, transparently and securely stretch their transactional data to Azure, creating a massive database with great price performance. Customers can also use new AlwaysOn Availability Groups to enable disaster recovery at low cost.
Security has never been more important, and we’re humbled to be the industry’s least vulnerable database, six years running, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) public security board. Several capabilities in SQL Server 2016 help protect data at rest and in memory (Always Encrypted), encrypt all user data with low performance overhead (Transparent Data Encryption), mitigate attacks with support for Transport Layer Security version 1.2, and allow developers to build applications that restrict access and protect data from specific users with Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) and Row Level Security (RLS).
DocuSign helps organizations build entire approval workflows without a single sheet of paper or filing cabinet in sight, so security and reliability are critical, as they are with every business today. Docusign partnered with Microsoft to help secure their customers’ data, realize insights with SQL Server analytics and BI capabilities and receive world-class support. Hear directly from their Chief Architect and Vice President of Platforms, Eric Fleischman:
With all of these capabilities built-in, SQL Server 2016 delivers not just a relational database, but an entire data platform for your business with incredible TCO. Today customers can save up to $10 million over three years versus Oracle, running transactional, data warehouse, data integration, business intelligence and advanced analytics workloads.* Judson Althoff, president of Microsoft North America, announced a new program to help more customers adopt SQL Server 2016 and save. Specifically, customers currently running applications or workloads on non-Microsoft paid commercial RDBMS platform will be able to migrate their existing applications with free SQL Server licenses.**
Microsoft is delivering on a vision that no other company can match across data, intelligence and cloud. To learn more, watch the webcast as well as various on-demand videos that showcase the new capabilities of this database built for mission-critical intelligence.
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Announcing SQL Server on Linux
By Scott Guthrie - Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Group, Microsoft
It’s been an incredible year for the data business at Microsoft and an incredible year for data across the industry. At the March Data Driven event in New York, we kicked off a wave of launch activities for SQL Server 2016 with general availability. This is the most significant release of SQL Server that we have ever done, and brings with it some fantastic new capabilities.
SQL Server 2016 delivers:
Groundbreaking security encryption capabilities that enable data to always be encrypted at rest, in motion and in-memory to deliver maximum security protection
In-memory database support for every workload with performance increases up to 30-100x
Incredible Data Warehousing performance with the #1, #2 and #3 TPC-H 10 Terabyte benchmarks for non-clustered performance, and as of March 7, the #1 SAP SD Two-Tier performance benchmark on Windows1
Business Intelligence for every employee on every device – including new mobile BI support for iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices
Advanced analytics using our new R support that enables customers to do real-time predictive analytics on both operational and analytic data
Unique cloud capabilities that enable customers to deploy hybrid architectures that partition data workloads across on-premises and cloud based systems to save costs and increase agility
These improvements, and many more, are all built into SQL Server and bring you not just a new database but a complete platform for data management, business analytics and intelligent apps – one that can be used in a consistent way across both on-premises and the cloud. In fact, over the last year we’ve been using the SQL Server 2016 code-base to run in production more than 1.4 million SQL Databases in the cloud using our Azure SQL Database as a Service offering, and this real-world experience has made SQL Server 2016 an incredibly robust and battle-hardened data platform.
Gartner recently named Microsoft as leading the industry in their Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems in both execution and vision. We’re also a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics, and Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, as well as leading in vision in the Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms.
Extending SQL Server to Also Now Run on Linux
Today I’m excited to announce our plans to bring SQL Server to Linux as well. This will enable SQL Server to deliver a consistent data platform across Windows Server and Linux, as well as on-premises and cloud. We are bringing the core relational database capabilities to preview today, and are targeting availability in mid-2017.
SQL Server on Linux will provide customers with even more flexibility in their data solution. One with mission-critical performance, industry-leading TCO, best-in-class security, and hybrid cloud innovations – like Stretch Database which lets customers access their data on-premises and in the cloud whenever they want at low cost – all built in.
“This is an enormously important decision for Microsoft, allowing it to offer its well-known and trusted database to an expanded set of customers”, said Al Gillen, group vice president, enterprise infrastructure, at IDC. “By taking this key product to Linux Microsoft is proving its commitment to being a cross platform solution provider. This gives customers choice and reduces the concerns for lock-in. We would expect this will also accelerate the overall adoption of SQL Server.”
“SQL Server’s proven enterprise experience and capabilities offer a valuable asset to enterprise Linux customers around the world,” said Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat. “We believe our customers will welcome this news and are happy to see Microsoft further increasing its investment in Linux. As we build upon our deep hybrid cloud partnership, spanning not only Linux, but also middleware, and PaaS, we’re excited to now extend that collaboration to SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, bringing enterprise customers increased database choice.”
“We are delighted to be working with Microsoft as it brings SQL Server to Linux,” said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical. “Customers are already taking advantage of Azure Data Lake services on Ubuntu, and now developers will be able to build modern applications that utilize SQL Server’s enterprise capabilities.”
Bringing SQL Server to Linux is another way we are making our products and new innovations more accessible to a broader set of users and meeting them where they are. Just last week, we announced our agreement to acquire Xamarin. Recently, we also announced Microsoft R Server , our technologies based on our acquisition of Revolution Analytics, with support for Hadoop and Teradata.
The private preview of SQL Server on Linux is available starting today and we look forward to working with the community, our customers and our partners to bring it to market.
Please join me Satya Nadella, Joseph Sirosh and Judson Althoff at our Data Driven event on Thursday to hear more about this news and how Microsoft is helping customers transform their business using data.
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Pay as you Go SQL Server Cloud Products
Unmatched scalability & uptime. As your company grows so do the demands on the database that support core business functions.
Better Performance: Are your applications keeping up with your business? With physical and operational security built in Azure, SQL Database can help you meet the most stringent regulatory compliance.
Intelligent Cloud Database
Industry-first enterprise-class cloud data warehouse that can grow, shrink, and pause in seconds
SQL Data Warehouse independently scales compute and storage, so you pay for query performance only when you need it. Unlike other cloud data warehouses that require hours or days to resize, SQL Data Warehouse lets you grow or shrink compute power in minutes. Take full advantage of storage at cloud scale, and apply query compute based on changing performance needs. When compute is paused, you pay only for storage, leveraging our market-leading on-demand price per terabyte.
Deploy secure infrastructure quickly with no maintenance costs:
SQL Data Warehouse is easy to deploy in seconds.
The service is a fully managed offering which removes you from the hassle of spending time on software updates and maintenance. SQL Data Warehouse has built-in database backups to support self-service restore; the service automatically backs up your data to Azure storage as it snapshots database restore points.
Make sure your apps are keeping up with the speed of your business with SQL Server:
Relational Database that Learns and Adapts
Scale Performance on the Fly, Without App Downtime
Full Enterprise-Cass SQL Server Experience
Works Seamlessly with Power BI, Machine Learning, HDInsight, and Data Factory
Compute and Storage are Billed Separately
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IT Service Management and IT Asset Management for Ultimate Technology Lifecycle Management
Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM) is a multiphased approach that encompasses the planning, design, acquisition, implementation, and management of all the elements comprising the IT infrastructure. The convergence of in-depth technical knowledge, astute business processes, and expert engineering and financial services into a solid business model enables agencies to proactively address systematic budgeting and long-term management of their IT infrastructures.
IT service management brings separately managed IT processes and components into a single holistic program to deliver end to end services that emphasize benefits to users / customers.
Research shows, more and more companies are discovering the benefits of Technology Lifecycle Management as a Service.
According to research conducted by IDC, MIT and Alinean1, the following benefits have been observed in enterprises as they improve their level of infrastructure optimization:
Better Business and IT Alignment
Enhanced Agility
Reduced IT Costs
Better Profitability
Reduced Regulatory and Security Risks
Improved Satisfaction with IT
The study calculates that, on average, the cost benefit to companies who improve their optimization is an 83 percent reduction in IT cost structure (per PC, per year).
Providing the most functional, flexible IT infrastructure possible, at the lowest cost of ownership. Meeting that challenge systematically through Technology Lifecycle Management can lead to dramatic improvements in efficiency, performance, and cost management.
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Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM) Support Experts Like us Deliver Efficiency and Cost Management
IT Service Management and IT Asset Management for Ultimate Technology Lifecycle Management
Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM) is a multiphased approach that encompasses the planning, design, acquisition, implementation, and management of all the elements comprising the IT infrastructure. The convergence of in-depth technical knowledge, astute business processes, and expert engineering and financial services into a solid business model enables agencies to proactively address systematic budgeting and long-term management of their IT infrastructures.
IT service management brings separately managed IT processes and components into a single holistic program to deliver end to end services that emphasize benefits to users / customers.
Research shows, more and more companies are discovering the benefits of Technology Lifecycle Management as a Service.
According to research conducted by IDC, MIT and Alinean1, the following benefits have been observed in enterprises as they improve their level of infrastructure optimization:
Better Business and IT Alignment
Enhanced Agility
Reduced IT Costs
Better Profitability
Reduced Regulatory and Security Risks
Improved Satisfaction with IT
The study calculates that, on average, the cost benefit to companies who improve their optimization is an 83 percent reduction in IT cost structure (per PC, per year).
Providing the most functional, flexible IT infrastructure possible, at the lowest cost of ownership. Meeting that challenge systematically through Technology Lifecycle Management can lead to dramatic improvements in efficiency, performance, and cost management.
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SQL Server 2016: The database for mission-critical intelligence
IT Service Management and IT Asset Management for Ultimate Technology Lifecycle Management
