Microsoft Malaysia has launched SQL Server 2016, the next release of the company’s flagship business analytics and data management platform. Microsoft’s vision of empowering every person and organisation to achieve more is central in support of the industry’s demands to build up data science.
Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 is built to power the transformation revolution, with technology and capabilities borne from the disruptions happening in cloud, data and intelligence. True to this revolution, SQL Server 2016 comes with R. The most popular language with data scientists, built-in to help them solve the most challenging problems in fields ranging from computational biology to quantitative marketing.
Michael Golebiewski, Chief Marketing & Operations Officer, Microsoft Malaysia delivers an opening address at the launch of SQL Server 2016
“MasterCard is a prime example of an institution that was able to leverage and transform one’s disposition to take advantage of today’s industry trends, despite the disruptive nature of such a revolution. With SQL Server 2016, MasterCard was able to abstract tangible insights that it then used to empower its organisation forward, with more meaningful products in a more efficient manner. This is exactly what Microsoft’s products and services were made for, to empower every person and organisation to achieve more in this increasingly cloud-first, mobile-first world,” said Michal Golebiewski, Chief Marketing and Operation Officer of Microsoft Malaysia.
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 was built to help businesses rethink their data strategies with today’s challenges. It supports hybrid transactional/analytical processing, advanced analytics and machine learning, mobile BI, data integration, always encrypted query processing capabilities and in-memory transactions with persistence. Key features include Stretch Database technology, an industry first that allows customers to dynamically stretch warm and cold transactional data to Azure so operational data is always accessible, providing a cost-effective strategy while protecting a customer’s sensitive data.
Advanced analytics using our new R support enables customers to do real-time predictive analytics on both operational and analytic data. Ground-breaking security encryption capabilities that enable data to always be encrypted at rest, in motion and in-memory to deliver maximum security protection. In- memory database support for every workload with performance increase up to 30-100x.
Darmadi Komo, Director, Data Group Marketing, Microsoft Corporation sharing features of the SQL Server 2016
It also has unique cloud capabilities that enable customers to deploy hybrid architectures that partition data workloads across on-premises and cloud based systems to save costs and increase agility. SQL Server 2016 is also available on Linux in private preview making it more accessible to a broader set of users. SQL Server 2016 Express is offered as a free download, with the Standard version starting at USD3,717(RM14,606) and the Enterprise version at USD14,256(RM56,022).
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