Biz Intel Expanded in Microsoft&#39;s SQL Server
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) is expanding business intelligence capabilities in its database software with two free software service packs that augment the reporting capabilities in SQL Server 2000.
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Microsoft on Monday released Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005, a major upgrade that adds support for Windows Vista and Office 2007. In addition, Microsoft is now allowing unlimited virtual instances of SQL Server on severs licensed for the Enterprise Edition of the database software.
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Microsoft has announced the availability of Beta 2 of its SQL Server 2005 database, which will include support for AMD's 64-bit Opteron CPU and Intel's 64-bit Itanium chip.
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In the three months since IBM and Intel opened design specifications for Big Blue&#39;s BladeCenter, more than 100 vendors have signed up to use the information, meaning that end users will soon have access to network switches, adapter cards and other
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Citing need among its customers and the broader market, Netezza announced on Monday that its Netezza Performance Server, a data warehousing appliance for BI (business intelligence) analytics, will soon be scalable to the petabyte level.
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The IBM announcement is being made in collaboration with Intel. Under an agreement reached two years ago, the companies have worked together to design and manufacture blade servers.
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Microsoft gave some encouraging news for IT managers considering future server hardware based on multicore processors. Both Intel and AMD are developing multicore chips, which pack two processors onto a single
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Intel&#39;s Itanium gains ground as three vendors roll out new servers based on the processor. By Darrell Dunn. Systems based on Intel&#39;s Itanium processor this week will gain ground in the high-performance server
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Microsoft's decision to open a software development center in British Columbia is a boost to Canada's strategy of growing its economy by importing foreign technology workers.
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Intel (Quote, Chart) released a new suite of developers&#39; tools it hopes will increase the amount of people using its 64-bit technology.
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Dell will roll out a line of servers preconfigured with Microsoft's SQL Server database.
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Microsoft Corp. will open a software development office in Vancouver, Canada, later this year, in part as a way to retain talented workers who can&#39;t stay in the U.S. because of immigration laws.
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Chip maker Intel is introducing a series of new processors designed especially for business and e-commerce uses.
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When Microsoft delivers the Beta 3 version of SQL Server 2005, formerly code-named &quot;Yukon,&quot; it will carry a number of feature enhancements that weren&#39;t available in the more broadly distributed Beta 2 version.
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TechWeb - Business intelligence software sales are growing at a double-digit pace, according to a new IDC report, and rising demand lifted sales for nearly every vendor. Microsoft and SAS led the way among the top-five vendors while one up-and-coming company racked up a near triple-digit sales gain. Despite all the &quot;BI for everyone&quot; marketing hype, IDC says the technology is still out of reach for mainstream business users.
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Idera, a leading provider of management and administration solutions for  Microsoft SQL Server, today announced that the company will provide full  support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 within 90 days of the release from  Microsoft.
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Citing need among its customers and the broader market, Netezza announced on Monday that its Netezza Performance Server, a data warehousing appliance for BI (business intelligence) analytics, will soon be scalable to the petabyte level.Systems capable of that scale will be available beginning in the middle of this year, according to the company. The increased performance will be made possible in part through the company&#39;s recently announced Compress Engine, for advanced compression, according to Netezza. The new systems will also support multiterabyte per hour data-loading, the company said.Netezza, based in Framingham, Massachusetts, has regularly announced performance improvements since launching its appliance in 2002. That initial version could handle up to 6TB of data, according to the company. That leapfrogged to 27TB in 2004 and 100TB in 2005, Netezza said.&quot;We have a number of customers who are now at or approaching that upper range,&quot; said Phil Francisco, the company&#39;s director of product marketing.Francisco said the new systems will preserve the company&#39;s existing pricing model. Low-end systems start below $200,000 and scale up from there, with support coming at additional cost, he said.Richard Winter, a consultant with Winter Corp. in Waltham, Massachusetts, said the BI market is ripe for more powerful data-crunching products. &quot;Every time you turn around you see another industry that&#39;s facing a tidal wave of data and they need to understand what this data is saying,&quot; he said. &quot;Many of them have data volumes in this range that they haven&#39;t been able to afford to analyze, as much as they&#39;d like to. ... [Netezza] can deliver that analytic capability, and at a very attractive price.&quot;James Kobielus, an analyst with Forrester Research, said Netezza is now aiming for the highest end of the data warehousing market, going after the likes of Teradata.&quot;Being able to scale up to a petabyte in context of an NPS deployment will go a long way toward getting Netezza in that inner circle of vendors,&quot; he said.The company may face certain problems of perception when attempting to poach such vendors&#39; customers, however. &quot;Their chief challenge is the fact that they&#39;re a startup,&quot; Kobielus said. &quot;They&#39;re definitely not as old and mature as the IBMs and Teradatas.&quot;Netezza also may have limited appeal to customers that would prefer a one-stop shopping approach for their BI-data warehousing needs. Instead, Netezza has partnered with BI vendors such as Business Objects.In addition, heightened competition may be around the corner for the firm, according to the analysts.&quot;Over the course of the year you&#39;ll also see some appliance-type offerings from the major players like Teradata and Oracle,&quot; Winter said. &quot;They&#39;ll compete down the road.&quot;Kobielus said he sees Microsoft making a particularly strong push in coming months.&quot;I am confident Microsoft will have some really important announcements this year,&quot; he said. &quot;Definitely look out for those guys.&quot;