MS SQL Server Hosting Offers a Complete Information Platform
Article by William Smith
Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive database server software and information platform offering a complete set of enterprise ready technologies and tools that help users derive the most value from information at the lowest total cost of ownership. Users of MS SQL Server enjoy high levels of performance, availability, and security; employ more productive management and development tools; and deliver pervasive insight with self service business intelligence or BI. A complete and integrated platform, MS SQL brings it all together to get more value out of existing information technology or IT skills and assets, increase the productivity and agility of information technology departments, and quickly build flexible, innovative applications.
According to experts there are some top compelling reasons that makes one choose Microsoft Server over its competitors. These reasons include the following, viz. Microsoft DBAs run more mission critical databases, when compared to Oracle DBAs; SQL Server delivers six nines (99.9999%) uptime availability; SQL Server is the most secure of any of the major database platforms; MS SQL is the uncontested leader in TPC-E Performance Benchmarks; MS SQL Server delivers a four hundred and sixty percent savings in annual cost of administration per database over Oracle; Microsoft is positioned as a leader in magic quadrant for business intelligence platforms; Microsoft outpaced the business intelligence software market with about twenty four percent growth based on revenue in the year two thousand and ten; PowerPivot was voted one of eWeek’s top technologies; and SQL reduces downtime by over twenty percent by migrating an SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) environment to SQL.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is the latest release. MS SQL Server 2012 is a cloud ready information platform. The purpose of this release is that it will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization and swiftly build solutions to extend data across on premises and public cloud, backed by mission critical confidence. This new release enables mission critical environments including availability and performance at low total cost of ownership or TCO. It helps reduce planned and unplanned downtime with the new integrated high availability and disaster recovery solution, MS Server AlwaysOn. One can achieve maximum application availability and data protection with options to configure multiple secondaries and ability to quickly failover and recover applications. This new version significantly reduces operating system or OS patching with new support for Windows Server Core. It eliminates idle hardware and improves information technology or IT cost efficiency and performance using Active Secondary which enables offloading of various workloads to the secondary instances. It simplifies deployment and management of high availability requirements using integrated configuration and monitoring tools. It helps in achieving highest level of availability regardless of whether applications are deployed on premises or on private or public cloud.
Benefits Offered By MS SQL Hosting Service Provider
MS SQL Server hosting, through an application hosting and cloud computing service vendor, offers many benefits -
* High Data Security
With a cloud hosting service provider, users get full and twenty four by seven network monitoring by experts, and other data security benefits.
* Robust Data Backup
Thirty days of rolling data backups are provided by a Microsoft SQL hosting service vendor.
* 24 by 7 Free Support Service
MS SQL Server on cloud offers twenty four by seven free support service.
* Simultaneous Accessibility
MS SQL Server host offers multiple users to have real time, secure, and concurrent access to the hosted MS Server at any time and from anywhere via Internet.
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