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Dell and Microsoft team to offer data warehouse appliances

By Microsoft Subnet on Mon, 09/24/07 - 1:42pm.

Dell said it is releasing a line of servers with large storage systems and SQL Server preinstalled. These will be aimed at the business intelligence/data warehousing segment. The bundle will be available in three sizes. According to Computerworld sizes and prices will be:

"1TB, 2TB or 4TB of storage in Dell's PowerVault MD1000 disk enclosure. Each package includes a Dell PowerEdge server running SQL Server 2005 on top of Windows Server 2003. The list price is about $100,000 per terabyte of storage; thus, the 4TB package costs about $400,000."

The bundle will use the new SQL Server 2008 after it is released (expected in Q2 '08). Microsoft's new performance management software, PerformancePoint Server 2007, will be offered as an option.

Dell joins Hewlett Packard, who earlier this year introduced a similar lineup.

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