Comments on: Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track http://www.dbms2.com/2009/02/23/microsoft-sql-server-fast-track/ Choices in data management and analysis Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:36:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Data warehouse storage options — cheap, expensive, or solid-state disk drives | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services http://www.dbms2.com/2009/02/23/microsoft-sql-server-fast-track/comment-page-1/#comment-118873 Data warehouse storage options — cheap, expensive, or solid-state disk drives | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:56:04 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=701#comment-118873 [...] Carson has become a 10 GigE “bigot”, and Teradata will soon certify 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards for connectivity to external systems. Carson’s interest in Infiniband, never high, went entirely away after Cisco decommitted to it. Obviously, this stands in contrast to the endorsements of Infiniband for data warehousing by Oracle and Microsoft. [...] [...] Carson has become a 10 GigE “bigot”, and Teradata will soon certify 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards for connectivity to external systems. Carson’s interest in Infiniband, never high, went entirely away after Cisco decommitted to it. Obviously, this stands in contrast to the endorsements of Infiniband for data warehousing by Oracle and Microsoft. [...]

]]> By: Closing the book on the DATAllegro customer base | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services http://www.dbms2.com/2009/02/23/microsoft-sql-server-fast-track/comment-page-1/#comment-111924 Closing the book on the DATAllegro customer base | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:58:38 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=701#comment-111924 [...] in all, two of which are TEOCO and Dell, and the third of which is a semi-open secret  I wrote last week: The number of DATAllegro production references is expected to double imminently, from one to two. [...] [...] in all, two of which are TEOCO and Dell, and the third of which is a semi-open secret  I wrote last week: The number of DATAllegro production references is expected to double imminently, from one to two. [...]

]]> By: Data warehousing business trends | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services http://www.dbms2.com/2009/02/23/microsoft-sql-server-fast-track/comment-page-1/#comment-111615 Data warehousing business trends | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:06:30 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=701#comment-111615 [...] “sandboxes” — is going strong. I’ve commented on that before in connection with Microsoft.  It’s also at the heart of eBay’s Teradata-based “analytics-as-a-service” [...] [...] “sandboxes” — is going strong. I’ve commented on that before in connection with Microsoft.  It’s also at the heart of eBay’s Teradata-based “analytics-as-a-service” [...]

]]> By: Kevin Closson http://www.dbms2.com/2009/02/23/microsoft-sql-server-fast-track/comment-page-1/#comment-111515 Kevin Closson Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:14:16 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=701#comment-111515 Curt, I think your assessment of this program is accurate. It is a reference configuration program. I don't think it offers balanced configurations though. I make that argument in the following post: http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/1037/ Curt,

I think your assessment of this program is accurate. It is a reference configuration program. I don’t think it offers balanced configurations though. I make that argument in the following post:

http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/1037/

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