EMC intros support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Data storage company EMC Corporation announced new EMC Proven Solutions and Consulting Services for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to help customers deploy SQL Server for mission critical data centre applications.

The new EMC Consulting services provide customers a defined path for migration and adoption of SQL Server 2012 and help customers take advantage of SQL Server 2012’s functionality to turn data into business intelligence and competitive advantage, says a press release.

Eduardo Rosini, corporate vice president, SQL Server Marketing, Microsoft, said: “SQL Server 2012 and EMC Solutions and Application services help our customers address mission critical performance, availability and data protection requirements.  EMC’s announcement of new consulting services that leverage Microsoft BI tools will enable our customers to use their data more competitively — providing breakthrough insights.”

EMC also announced two new EMC Proven Solutions to help customers leverage the newest features in SQL Server 2012.

EMC SQL Server 2012 Readiness - Performance with VMAXe FAST VP and SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Local Availability Groups — This solution documents technology considerations for utilizing the new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups with EMC Fast VP and EMC VMAXe. 

The focus of this solution is to create availability groups on a Fast VP enabled VMAXe to support business requirements for read-only secondary database replicas. This approach allows for the dedication of the primary replica for mission critical online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads while isolating OLAP/BI demands.

EMC SQL Server 2012 Multi-Site Disaster Recovery - Enabled by SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups, EMC VNX and FAST Suite — This solution documents technology considerations for utilizing the new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups, with EMC FAST Suite and EMC VNX unified storage.

The focus of this solution is to utilize the new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn transaction-level replication technology to maximize the availability of a set of user databases between two distant sites while enabling the database storage efficiency and performance to be optimized by using EMC FAST Suite on VNX 5700.

Prasad Rampalli, senior vice president, EMC Solutions Group, EMC Corporation, said: “EMC is committed to helping our customers make a seamless and effortless transition to SQL Server 2012 without compromising on performance, efficiency, simplicity or affordability. We’ve customized our engineering best practices, optimized our storage solutions to support SQL Server 2012, and have tailored our consulting services so that customers of all sizes are equipped with what they need to enable them to maximize information across their organization.”