Microsoft offers 'appliance-like' data warehouses
InformationWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft has worked with three hardware vendors to develop a set of configurations that it says will provide customers with a faster, less expensive path to creating data warehouses.
Announced Monday, the SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse configurations were developed using knowledge Microsoft gained from its acquisition last July of Datallegro, said group product manager Herain Oberoi. The offering includes the availability of preconfigured hardware from Bull, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard, and is designed to let customers build data warehouses for as little as $13,000 per terabyte.