Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard - Open Academic

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard - Open Academic 

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Turn mission-critical applications into an intelligent working application with SQL Server 2016. The first database integrated into the cloud, introducing a high standard in the velocity of innovation.

This scalable, high-performance database management system makes it easier and more affordable to build high-performance applications, enterprise-ready big data assets and business intelligence solutions so employees can make faster but smarter decisions. Just some of the benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard with an OLP license include mission-critical performance with a new in-memory OLTP engine, faster insights on any data from a complete business intelligence platform and a platform designed to work in a hybrid environment spanning your premises and the cloud.

Capabilities include breakthrough in-memory performance, scalable data warehousing and robust development tools. For complete information on how Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard with an OLP license can help you, talk with one of our knowledgeable customer service representatives.

Benefits

SQL Server 2016 makes it easier and more cost effective to build high-performance, mission-critical applications, enterprise ready Big Data assets, and BI solutions that help employees make better decisions, faster. These solutions have the flexibility of being deployed on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment, and can be managed through a common and familiar tool set.

Mission-critical performance

SQL Server 2016 accelerates reliable, mission critical applications with a new in-memory OLTP engine that can deliver on average 10x, and up to 30x transactional performance gains. For Data Warehousing, the new updatable in-memory columnstore can query 100x faster than legacy solutions. SQL Server also delivers peace of mind as the most secure database five years in a row. (National Institute of Standards and Technology Comprehensive Vulnerability Database 4/17/2013, Market share from IDC 2013)

Faster insights on any data

Get to insights faster with a complete BI platform that speeds up how you access, analyze, clean and shape both internal and external data. With SQL Server 2016 and Power BI for Office 365, it is easy to connect every user in an organization to the right data they need to make better decisions, faster.

Platform for hybrid cloud

SQL Server 2016 was designed to work in a hybrid environment that spans on-premises and the cloud and has new tools that make it even easier to build back-up and disaster recovery solutions with Microsoft Azure. These tools provide an easy on-ramp to the cloud for on-premises SQL Server databases, enabling customers to use their existing skills to take advantage of Microsofts global datacenters.

Capabilities

Breakthrough, in-memory performance

With SQL Server 2016, new in-memory capabilities for transaction processing and enhancements for data warehousing complement our existing technologies for data warehousing and analytics. Scale and transform your business with, on average, a 10x performance gain for transaction processing while still using existing hardware, and a greater-than 100x performance gain for data warehousing.

Proven, predictable performance

SQL Server consistently leads in TPC-E, TPC-H and real-world application performance benchmarks. SQL Server is SAP-certified to run some of the most demanding workloads. Get more predictable performance of virtualized SQL Server instances with IO governance in Resource Governor.Gain greater uptime, faster failover, improved manageability, and better use of hardware resources through AlwaysOn, a unified solution for high availability. In SQL Server 2016, there are additional active secondaries, new online operations and the ability to quickly setup a secondary in Microsoft Azure.

Enterprise scalability across compute, networking, and storage

With Windows Server, physical processing now scales up to 640 logical processors, and virtual machines scale up to 64 logical processors. SQL Server 2016 uses this scale, storage spaces and network virtualization.