Microsoft SQL Server Customer Solution Case Microsoft Uses SQL Server 2012 5.8-Terabyte SAP ERP Database to Run Its Global Business "SAP ERP serves as the backbone of Microsoft’s Overview Country or Region: United States business. We never would upgrade this system to a Industry: IT services new database release if we weren’t confident. SQL Customer Profile Server 2012 did meet expectations and proved Based in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in enterprise-ready even in beta state.” software, services, and Internet technologies for personal and business Hans Reutter, Sr. Principal OE System Manager, Microsoft computing. Microsoft runs its worldwide operations on SAP® ERP. With Business Situation 93,000 employees and operations in more than 110 countries, The company’s SAP wanted to take the largest software company in the world runs some 25 million advantage of new features in Microsoft Hans Reutter, Sr. Principal OE System Manager, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 such as AlwaysOn to SAP transactions a month against its 5.8-terabyte compressed combine high-availability and disaster- database. The company was happy with how well its SAP recovery functionality. deployment was performing on earlier versions of SQL Server Solution and Windows. Nevertheless, it upgraded to the beta edition of Microsoft upgraded its SAP ERP infrastructure to the beta edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to take advantage of new features, Microsoft SQL Server 2012. specifically AlwaysOn. Leveraging AlwaysOn eased Benefits administration and aligned the processes for local and remote High availability with AlwaysOn high availability. This made the disaster-recovery process easy Better auditing capabilities Improved online table maintenance because the same overall process is being used. At the same Support for Windows Core time, potential data loss in a disaster case could be minimized. No need for dedicated database administrators
Microsoft SQL Server Customer Solution Case Microsoft Uses SQL Server 2012 5.8-Terabyte SAP ERP Database to Run Its Global Business Overview Country or Region: United States Industry: IT services Customer Profile Based in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Business Situation The company’s SAP wanted to take advantage of new features in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 such as AlwaysOn to combine high-availability and functionality. Solution Microsoft upgraded its SAP ERP infrastructure to the beta edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Benefits High availability with AlwaysOn Better auditing capabilities Improved online table maintenance Support for Windows Core No need for dedicated database administrators "SAP ERP serves as the backbone of Microsoft’s business. We never would upgrade this system to a new database release if we weren’t confident. SQL Server 2012 did meet expectations and proved enterprise-ready even in beta state.” Hans Reutter, Sr. Principal OE System Manager, Microsoft Hans Reutter, Sr. Principal OE System Manager, Microsoft Microsoft runs its worldwide operations on SAP® ERP. With 93,000 employees and operations in more than 110 countries, the largest software company in the world runs some 25 million SAP transactions a month against its 5.8-terabyte compressed database. The company was happy with how well its SAP deployment was performing on earlier versions of SQL Server and Windows. Nevertheless, it upgraded to the beta edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to take advantage of new features, specifically AlwaysOn. Leveraging AlwaysOn eased administration and aligned the processes for local and remote high availability. This made the disaster-recovery process easy because the same overall process is being used. At the same time, potential data loss in a disaster case could be minimized. disaster- recovery
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