The SQL server license for our 40 core server was $3000. has we got the license through our parent companies (non- education) volume licensing account the SQL server license would be $33,000.

Organizations that operate Microsoft SQL Server may have to rethink their database virtualization strategy, thanks to the upcoming release of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Microsoft's SQL Server is something many developers rely on for business processing tasks even though the product has limitations. DH2i's application virtualization technology is designed reduce ...

Currently, SQL Server 2008 users have unlimited virtualization rights, according to Microsoft's pricing and licensing guide (Word doc download). However, to get "maximum virtualization" rights with ...

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) combines compute, storage, and network virtualization into a single platform, on a subscription ...

In addition, Microsoft announced that it is expanding virtualization use rights to allow unlimited virtual instances on servers that are fully licensed for SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.

Fausto Ibarra is the new front man for SQL Server. As reported last week, Ibarra officially took the reins of the SQL Server team as director of product management from Francois Ajenstat, who is now ...

If you haven't been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called 'containers.' While there are many specific ...

Look out, mid-market IT shops looking to use Microsoft's new Essential Business Server 2008 in an enterprise filled with virtual servers: Some old, resource-hogging apps, Exchange and SQL Server ...

Channel partners see opportunities to encroach on VMware's installed base with Windows Server 2012's expanded virtualization features.