SQL Server 2014: The Data Platformfor the Cloud

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The Evolution of Microsoft Data Platform

SQL Server2000

SQL Server2005

SQL Server2008

SQL Server2008 R2

SQL Server2012

XML ● KPIs

Management Studio ● Mirroring

Compression ● Policy-Based Mgmt ● Programmability

PowerPivot ● SharePoint Integration ● Master Data Services

AlwaysOn ● ColumnStore Index ● Data Quality Services ● Power View ● Cloud Connectivity

Mission Critical & Cloud Performance

Cloud-Ready Self-Service BI

SQL Server2014

In-Memory Across Workloads ● Performance & Scale ● Hybrid Cloud Optimized ● HDInsight ● Cloud BI

Performance & Productivity

Mission Critical

Modern DB platform

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SQL Server 2014 as an Enterprise Customer Data Platform

In-Memory Built-InAverage 10x faster for new and existing SQL Server apps

Secure & ScalableMost secure with enterprise scale using Windows Server

High AvailabilityThe 9’s you need, with AlwaysOn

Mission Critical SupportLive support designed for mission critical solutions

Easy access to data, big & smallSearch, access, and shape internal and external data, and combine with unstructured data

Powerful insights with familiar toolsSpeed up analysis and time to insight with the familiarity of Excel in Office and Office 365 and access via mobile devices

Complete BI platformScale your BI models and enrich and secure your data with a complete platform spanning cloud and on-premises

Hybrid Cloud SolutionsEnable new hybrid scenarios like cloud backup and cloud DR to reduce costs and improve on-premises DR

Easy On-Ramp to CloudEasily migrate and run SQL Server in the cloud to gain benefits of cloud computing

Complete & ConsistentDeploy a complete and consistent data platform from on-premises to cloud

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• In-Memory Built-In Across Workloads• Improved Multi-Tenancy, Scalability, and

Density• AlwaysOn High Availability Enhancements• Continuous Growth of BI Capabilities

What's New for SQL Server 2014

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In-Memory Built-In Across Workloads

Select only highly utilized tables to be in-memory

Optimize in-memory to fit existing hardware

In-memory performance across OLTP, DW and BI

All in a single SKU

On average 10x faster, without having rewrite entire app

Leverage full SQL Server capabilities

16x FasterWith In-Memory

250,000 requests/sec

SQL Server 2014 with In-Memory

Bwin Game Application

Offer high performance services across your offerings with In-Memory Built-In capability

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Up 640 logical processors

64 vCPUs/VM, 1 TB memory/VM, 64 nodes/cluster

Supports the preparation of VM templates through SQL Server SysPrep

Enterprise-class network storage on standard hardware

Storage virtualization / Storage tiering for higher performance

Network virtualization

Improved Multi-Tenancy, Scalability, and Density

SQL Server 2014• Resource Governor adds IO

governance

• SysPrep at cluster level

Windows Server 2012 R2• Hyper-V

• Storage Spaces

• NIC Teaming

• Online VHDX Resize

• Network & Storage QoS

Scalability, performance, multi-tenant management for highly scalable hosting services

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AlwaysOn High Availability Enhancements

Primary Secondary 2Running BI Workloads

Secondary 1Running Back-

ups

Synchronous data

movement

Asynch

ronous

data

movement

AG_Listener

Multi-DB failover, manual or automatic

Up to 8 secondary replicas

100% availability during all online operations

HA without expensive SANs

Offload reads & backups to secondaries

Deployment & management wizards

Monitoring dashboard within SSMS & System Center

Offer premium high availability services with increased SLA with SQL Server AlwaysOn

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Continuous Growth of BI CapabilitiesDriving Analytics on any Data

Web app optimization

Smart meter monitoring

Equipment monitoring

Advertising analysis

Life sciences research

Fraud detection

Healthcare outcomes

Weather forecasting

Natural resource exploration

Social network analysis

Churn analysis

Traffic flow optimization

IT infrastructure optimization

Legal discovery

Customer Business Scenarios

INSIGHTS

SELF-SERVICE | COLLABORATIVE | MOBILE | REAL-TIME

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DATA MANAGEMENT

RELATIONAL

STREAMING

SHAREAND GOVERN

DISCOVERAND

RECOMMEND

TRANSFORMAND CLEAN

DATA ENRICHMENT

Microsoft Big Data and BI Platform

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Upgrading to SQL Server 2014

What do these features mean for your business?

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Use the Consistent, Cloud-based Data Platform to Achieve Your Business Vision

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Call to action

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Business ChallengeSAAS provider to large retailers wanted to increase inventory availability refresh speed to improve customer satisfaction

Key Benefits Increased sales with greater

throughput and improved customer satisfaction

7x faster performance enables near real time inventory updates

Before With In-Memory

Daily Asynchronous Sync

Online Retailers

Near Real-Time Sync

Online Retailers

Customers

Customers

Syndromic

SurveillancePlatform

Business ChallengeHealthcare software vendor sought a solution to combine different data types to help identify disease outbreaks earlier Key Benefits Spot outbreaks

in near real-time

Combine on-prem structured data with hand written notes

& social media feeds

Local Data Mart

Clinical App

Windows 8 App

National Data Mart

Paul HendersonBI Division Head

Hadoop File

Management

Natural LanguageProcessor

Clinical App

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