EMC Cloud Meets Microsoft Big Data at SQL PASS Summit

Next week is the start of SQL PASS Summit, the annual SQL Server and Business Intelligence conference. What's unique about SQL PASS Summit compared to many conferences is that it is put on by the SQL Server community (PASS or the Professional Association of SQL Server) opposed to a vendor. PASS holds several events throughout the year called SQLSaturday which are held in different cities across the year and then their annual conference in Seattle.

This will certainly be a big year for SQL PASS with the upcoming release of SQL Server Denali (29 sessions throughout the week). In addition there are 6 specific tracks this year including Application and Database Development, Enterprise Database Administration and Deployment, BI Platform Architecture, Development and Administration, BI Information Delivery, Professional Development and SQL Azure.

EMC will be a Gold sponsor at SQL PASS Summit yet again this year with a focus on Big Data Solutions. Matter of fact, EMC compliments many of the SQL PASS tracks by highlighting solutions in simplified management of SQL Server, simple and affordable infrastructure and data management for SQL Server OLTP and BI, deliver timely insight and collaboration from SQL Server data and manage structured and unstructured data growth.

EMC will also be highlighting the EMC Data Warehouse Fast Track configuration recently designed, tested and validated by Cisco, EMC and Microsoft. Microsoft Fast Track Data Warehouse for SQL Server R2 uses reference configurations optimized for data warehousing. By using reference architecture solutions, customers can easily purchase and build a similar model with expected results. In EMC and Cisco's Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 configuration, an EMC VNX5300 Storage array along with Cisco UCS C-Series rack mount servers were used to showcase mid-size to large scale data warehouse environments. The document contains the specific detailed hardware used for the configuration as well as detailed information such as disk layout, RAID groups and other storage specific information.

Come by the EMC booth (#201) if you'll be at SQL PASS to pick up a free t-shirt and meet the EMC experts. Some of the information and demonstrations we will be showcasing includes:

• Leveraging Data for Business Insight and Advanced Analytics
  • Highlighted by EMC Consulting for Business Intelligence for Infrastructure and services for upgrading and virtualizing SQL Server application and databases.
• Delivering Dynamic, Efficient, Scalable Infrastructure for Virtualized SQL Server Environments
  • Highlighting EMC Unified Storage VNX, VMAX, EMC Storage Integrator (ES), FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) and FAST VP
• Ensuring Data Protection for Virtualized SQL Server Environments
  • Highlighting EMC Replication including Replication Manager, RecoverPoint, Avamar, Networker and DataDomain
• Ensuring High Availability for Virtualized SQL Server
  • Highlighting EMC integration with Microsoft virtualization technologies.

See you there!

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