Fast Track Data Warehouse

Appliance-Like Time to Value with a Fast Track Data Warehouse

A Fast Track Data Warehouse gives you appliance-like time to value, lower TCO through industry standard hardware and higher scale with reference architectures that scale up to 80 TB.

We are increasingly using Fast Track reference architectures on data warehouse projects to deliver blistering warehouse performance quickly, whilst you enjoy a lower cost of ownership. 

Creating a new warehouse, or migrating an existing warehouse investment will provide a scalable, flexible warehouse infrastructure from which to build an enterprise-class business intelligence capability. 

What it is:

  • A method for designing a cost-effective, balanced system for data warehouse workloads
  • Reference hardware configurations developed in conjunction with hardware partners using this method
  • Best practices for data layout, loading and management

Components:

  • Software - SQL Server 2008 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008
  • Twelve reference architectures from HP, Dell, Bull, EMC and IBM

Your issues:

  • Increased volumes of data
  • Need to reduce costs
  • Increased adoption of DW appliances
  • Move to MPP (more complex to set up)
  • Demand for flexibility and mixed workloads across the enterprise
  • Desire for real-time analytics
  • Growing importance of data quality
  • Desire for agility

Key Features:

  • Accelerate your data warehouse roadmap with reference configurations
  • Reduce hardware testing and tuning with better Data Warehouse performance out-of-the-box
  • Scale from 4 up to 80 terabytes using compression capabilities in SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
  • Enjoy a lower cost of ownership through better price performance, rapid deployment and industry-standard hardware

Using a Fast Track Data Warehouse reference architecture in conjunction with the Adatis Integration Framework we can help accelerate design, build and implementation of both data warehouse and data marts.

For more information refer to the Fast Track Data Warehouse datasheet and the latest Fast Track Data Warehouse refererence guide:
pdficon Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Fast Track Data Warehouse Datasheet
wordicon Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 Reference Guide 

If you would like to contact us to find out more about Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions please call 0845 0091591.

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