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Cisco has announced new datacentre solutions for customers who want to run Microsoft enterprise software on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). The new datacentre solutions support Microsoft SQL Server for data warehousing and on-line transaction processing. Each solution is designed to help customers accelerate software deployment , reduce IT complexity, and lower overall total cost of ownership by utilising the unique attributes of Cisco UCS.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 for Cisco Unified Computing System: The reference architecture is designed to meet the needs of medium to large enterprises who want a template for combining server, storage and networking technologies in a way that optimises the performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 on Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers.
The reference architecture simplifies system selections for customers based on the performance, capacity, scalability, and pricing that the customer needs. The reference configurations include storage vendors, EMC and NetApp.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 OLTP reference configuration for Cisco UCS: This reference configuration is validated by Cisco and optimised for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. This reference configuration can help customers further reduce deployment complexity and the total cost of ownership by providing prescriptive guidelines on the deployment of the Cisco UCS as well as of EMC unified midrange and enterprise storage configurations.
Based on Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Mount Servers, these reference architectures are designed to meet the needs of small, medium-sized and large enterprises with additional storage options are schedule to be available in the future.
“We developed the Microsoft Fast Track Data Warehouse program to help our customers accelerate their data warehouse road maps, lower costs, and reduce risk with reliable reference architectures and best practices for warehousing. Using the Cisco Unified Computing System with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides our mutual customers with scalable, preconfigured servers, storage and networking design guides that are specifically balanced and optimised for data warehousing workloads,” said Val Fontama, senior product manager, Business Platform Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp.
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