When I first started looking into Fast Track Data Warehouse, I wasn’t clear how it worked. After delving into it a little more, I gained a clearer understanding. Fast Track Data Warehouse is a partnership between Microsoft and several partners to create an optimized system for SQL Server 2008. The Microsoft partners for Fast Track Data Warehouse are HP, Dell, EMC, Bull and IBM. With Fast Track Data Warehouse, you need to review each of these vendors offering and choose the vendor you wish to use. All the necessary hardware is purchased from this one vendor, so you don’t need to decide which hardware will be best for your SQL Server 2008 configuration. Then, the vendor installs the operating system on the system you chose. Once you receive the system, you need to install the system into your rack. Then you must install SQL Server.
Fast Track Data Warehouse allows you to scale out your SQL Server infrastructure. You can also scale up by using Fast Track Data Warehouse with Parallel Data Warehouse, which allows you to arrange your SQL Server servers in a hub-and-spoke architecture.
Posted Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 9:21 am by peterl
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