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Scalability Experts – On the Road with SQL Magazine!

posted on September 30, 2008

SQL Mag is putting on a Road Show, with SE as the featured act. Note the Dates and Locations of the stops on the tour. At each stop there will be two SE presenters, one for OTLP and the other for BI. There will be a Keynote address, plus three presentation sessions at each stop. The topics have been chosen and the list is attached. More information to follow.

Dec 2 – San Francisco - Raj Gill and Andrew Sisson
Dec 4 – Chicago - Don Vilen and Andrew Sisson
Dec 9 – Atlanta - Joe Yong and Jim Leisring
Dec 11 – Philadelphia - Joe Yong and Jim Leisring

Keynote – Managing Data in Your EnvironmentIn the next 5 years, we will store more than twice the data that we have stored since the beginning of the computer age. Managing this data and turning it into useful information will be the key to survival and success for every organization. Traditional applications and architectures continue to play their important roles in supporting current businesses but newer approaches and standards such as consolidation, virtualization and true scale-as-you-grow architectures are rapidly becoming the norm as businesses evolve. Find out more about how Microsoft’s recent release of SQL Server 2008 positions your organization for success by improving your ability to address current needs while getting your organization ready to adopt newer and/or alternate architectures when your business demands it.

Session 1 – Upgrading to SQL Server 2008
With the release of SQL Server 2008, your organization can benefit from many new features. But, how do you get there? What are the pitfalls that you need to watch out for? What tools and techniques are available that will help you in this effort? What will it take to Upgrade to SQL Server 2008? Will I encounter compatibility or performance problems? If so how do I mitigate the risks or solve those problems? These questions will be addressed for upgrades from SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 along with best practices collected from hundreds of upgrades performed around the world. The focus of this session will be the relational engine.

Session 2 – HA and DR in the SQL Server 2008 WorldAs users and businesses become more dependent on instantly and constantly available access to critical information, service level agreements for High Availability and Disaster Recovery become increasingly demanding with no end in sight while IT budgets remain the same or reduced. Consolidated systems further add to the pressure as IT departments are asked to do more with less but are still expected to manage the same or higher levels of business criticality. Find out how the enhancements in SQL Server 2008 help you accomplish your goals while working within your constraints in staff and budgets.

Session 3 – SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers a complete foundation of Business Intelligence with scalable, enterprise ready data warehousing. The feature rich functionality of the 2008 platform puts timely and mission critical information in hands of your organization. Unlock the hidden knowledge embedded in your applications and gain amazing insight and vision to your data to expand your competitive advantage.

SQL Server 2008 gives you the ability to:

Build Enterprise data warehouse and data marts with immense scalability and performance – with SQL Server 2008 Relational Database
Quickly Extract, Transform, Cleanse, and Load from multiple sources —with SQL Server 2008 Integration Services.
Provide Deep and Complex Data Analytics —with SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services.
Author, deliver, and deploy enterprise class reporting—with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services.

More importantly, SQL Server 2008 allows you to accomplish all this without consuming your entire IT budget and does not require that your staff attend months of training to deploy and manage these solutions effectively. With up to 87% of all BI projects rated as failures or not meeting objectives, find out how you can be in the other 13% and how SQL Server 2008 helps you get there. If you’re already taking advantage of the Microsoft SQL Server suite of BI tools in prior versions, learn how to maximize the new features of 2008 with optimized star-query joins, merge, tablix, CDC, lookup and pipeline performance, and numerous other improvements.

For more specific information about SE services or to have a Solutions Sales Manager contact you please send us an email at info@scalabilityexperts.com or call 469-635-6200. SE has operations in U.S, Dubai, Singapore and India.

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