Myths. True or false?
Fortunately, you have a choice for your mission critical applications.
Oracle may have built its reputation on reliability, availability and security for large-scale mission critical applications. But Oracle isn’t the only company that can do that, at least not any more. Microsoft’s latest generation of products, including Enterprise and Datacenter Editions of SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, run mission critical applications for numerous large enterprises around the world, including large financial institutions (Citi, Premier Bankcard) , stock exchanges (NASDAQ), manufacturing (Volvo Aero), and other Fortune 500 companies (Chevron).
Microsoft SQL Server leads the industry as the #1 most deployed database server on the planet [1]. The Microsoft Application Platform is an increasingly popular choice for mission critical enterprise transaction processing, data warehousing, and business intelligence. Examples include Citi’s Market Montage supporting over 200,000 updates per second, Premier Bankcard’s 17-terabyte mission critical BI solution and Kimball International’s 10-terabyte SAP system.
Learn how some of the world’s most successful enterprises have come to rely on the real world scalability, performance, availability and value of the Microsoft Application Platform.
[1] Source: IDC Special Report entitled ““Server Workloads Forecast and Analysis Study, 2009-2014,” by Matthew Eastwood; Reuben Miller (August 2010). © IDC. 2010An increasing number of companies are expressing disenchantment with Oracle, as evidenced by articles such as these in ZDNet, BusinessWeek and eWeek.
The price/performance of Microsoft solutions such as SQL Server helps deliver value at a low total cost of ownership.
Microsoft is committed to providing choice and flexible options. Microsoft SQL Server also provides enhanced features and functionality out-of-the-box which include: complex event processing, master data management, partitioning, compression and high availability disaster recovery plus much more. For example, Oracle 11g can require additional costs for a multiple array of options and add-ins.
Learn more about database pricing by reading the whitepaper Do Not Pay Too Much For Your Database Licenses.
A trusted partner to businesses for more than 25 years, Microsoft offers the most comprehensive approach of any cloud-computing vendor. We offer an extensive set of finished services so businesses can consume applications (e.g. productivity, collaboration, business intelligence, CRM) from the cloud. We provide the industry’s most robust platform for developers to create new applications optimized for the cloud, using a broad range tools and languages. We offer both public and private cloud solutions.
For example, Windows Azure allows your developers to develop and run applications quickly, while leveraging current skills to develop applications with .NET, PHP, or Java. The flexible platform allows you to easily scale up or down to meet the demands of your business. With the pay-for-use business model, you don’t waste money on services you won’t use.
These options are available on your terms - in combination with each other, on your premises or hosted by a third party. And they are bound together by a common set of tools that make managing private, public, or hybrid cloud scenarios easy and familiar.
Our comprehensive approach helps ensure that your investments today (in both infrastructure and skills) will remain relevant as your unique journey to the cloud unfolds.
Don’t let anyone tell you their security is unbreakable. IT leaders know good security requires a strong mix of strategy, policy and technology. Microsoft SQL Server has consistently demonstrated the lowest number of posted critical security patches since 2003, while Oracle has consistently demonstrated the highest.
See the overview of enterprise security features and the historical trending of database security vulnerabilities. Learn how Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers security feature enhancements that help provide effective management of security feature configuration, strong authentication and access control, powerful encryption and key management capabilities, and enhanced auditing.
And it’s not just about databases. In a recent ITIC survey commissioned by Microsoft, CIOs and their direct reports gave Windows Server 2008 R2 the highest security ratings out of the 18 Server Operating Systems, with 90% of respondents rating security as Excellent or Very Good, and none giving a poor or unsatisfactory rating.
The effectiveness of business intelligence (BI) solutions can be defined by the ability to share actionable data across your organization through familiar, user-friendly tools. Microsoft Business Intelligence is designed to offer basic built-in functionalities out of the box, decrease complexity, and increase your organization-wide effectiveness through popular, easy to use tools such as Excel and SharePoint. By empowering end users in the tools that they already know, Microsoft uniquely delivers on an effective BI solution that can be used by far more people in an organization. This helps organizations minimize acquisition costs, training costs, and the complexities of deploying a specialized BI tool.
Learn how Microsoft customers such as Chevron are getting fast and insightful business data and why Microsoft is positioned as one of the BI leaders in the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms.
