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The Voice of the DBA Appliances - Just Add Data

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Sep 02, 2010 Appliances - Just Add Data

The first release of a large data appliance from Microsoft is the SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Edition in which you buy a rack of pre-configured servers that you access with tools and perform limited management on. I was reminded of this as I read about Teradata's new product strategy, it seemed that they have integrated an appliance in there as well.

Appliances bring some value to customers by supposedly reducing some of the tuning, configuration, setup, etc. costs in setting up a system. Hopefully the also reduce some ongoing costs that might come from mis-configuration, things running slowly, etc. How many times has an inexperienced person setup a server in a way that causes issues for an application?

 

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