Empowered

IT

Mission Critical Platform

Cloud Desktop & Mobile Server & Datacenter

Pervasive

Insight Dynamic

Development

*Source: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008 & Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse DBMS, 2007

+Source: “Worldwide Relational Database Management Systems 2007 Vendor Shares,” Carl W. Olofson, IDC, June 2008

#Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database

Over 7 Million Downloads of SQL Server 2008

In Leaders Quadrant in Gartner Magic Quadrants for DW & BI*

Leading Performance Benchmarks: TPC-H, TPC-E, & Applications

SQL Server is the Fastest Growing Relational Database WW+

SQL Server has the Fewest Vulnerabilities of Any Enterprise DB#

Over 30,000 partners are offering solutions

Managed Self-Service BI

Multi-Server Management

Virtualization & Live Migration

Scalable relational database

platform

Consistent, familiar model & tools

Self-managed, highly available cloud

services

MPP support for 10s to 100s TB DW

Highly scalable appliances

Seamless integration with Microsoft

BI

Trusted, Scalable

Platform

IT & Developer

Efficiency

Managed

Self-Service BI

Self-service analytics

Self-service reporting

Streamlined collaboration &

management

Multi-server management

Virtualization & Live Migration

Accelerated development & deployment

Enterprise-level security, scalability

High-scale, complex event processing

Data consistency across

heterogeneous systems

Comprehensive Platform for IT Value

Scalable relational database platform

Consistent, familiar model & tools

Self-managed, highly available cloud service

MPP support for 10s-100s TB DW

Highly scalable appliances

Seamless BI Integration

Analyzing Massive Data Volumes in Excel

With a few mouse clicks, a user can create and publish intuitive and interactive self-service analysis solutions.

PowerPivot

for Excel

PowerPivot

for SharePoint

Tomorrow Today

Manage capacity through policies – save time, optimize resources

Control server sprawl with 1 to many management – setup is fast and easy

Single unit of deployment – increase deployment and upgrade efficiency

Cluster

Node 1

Network

Storage

Cluster

Node 2

Configuration Data

Virtual

Machine

Memory Content

VHD

Memory Sync

Virtual

Machine

User

Easy provisioning and deployment

Auto High availability and fault tolerant

Self-managing and self-healing

Database as a utility with pay as you grow scaling

Rely on Business-ready SLAs

Enable multi-tenant solutions

Manage multiple servers

Build cloud-based database solutions on a familiar relational model

Build on existing developer skills and familiar Transact-SQL syntax

Explore new data application patterns

Relational Database as a service

• Comprehensive data platform with highest service levels for mission-critical workloads

• Built-in security, availability, and scale

• Coupled with robust business intelligence offerings

• Application and Multi-Server Management for up to 25 instances

• PowerPivot for SharePoint

• Analysis Services In-memory BI

• Master Data Services

• Data Compression with Unicode UCS-2 support

• Resource Governor

• Data Compression

• Transparent Data Encryption

• Database Mirroring Enhancements

• Scale-out BI

New Features in R2 Top Features in 2008

New edition for the datacenter

• Highest levels of scalability for large application workloads

• Aligns with Windows Server

• Priced by processor, no additional costs for multi-core

High-Scale CEP Deployments

w/StreamInsight

Financial Services, Web Analytics

High-scale Multi-Instance Mgmt.

Central collection and reporting of

database resource utilization for

capacity planning

Scale-up across workloads

Supports largest SMP hardware

(up to 256 logical processors)

Unlimited Virtualization

Can be combined with multi-

instance management benefits for

server consolidation

Key Capabilities

What’s new, what’s different

Standard Enterprise Datacenter

Memory 64GB RAM 2TB RAM OS Max

CPU Support 4 Procs Up to 8 Procs

>8 Procs

Up to 256 logical procs

Virtualization

Licensing

Virtualization 1 VM/

license Virtualization 4 VM/ license Max. Virtualization

Virtualization

Support Hyper-V Live Migration Hyper-V Live Migration Hyper-V Live Migration

OLTP &

Multi-Server

Mgt.

Backup Compression

(new from Enterprise)

Can be a managed

instance

Unicode UCS-2

Compression

Control Point for up to 25

managed instances

Unicode UCS-2

Compression

Control Point to manage

max. number of instances

Business

Intelligence

Componentized

Reports (SSRS)

Advanced Visualization

(maps)

PowerPivot for SharePoint

Master Data Services

PowerPivot for SharePoint

Master Data Services

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