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SQL Server 2008 Overview
Your organization today faces numerous data challenges. You need your people
to make faster and more data-driven decisions, your developers to be more
productive and flexible, and your managers to reduce their overall information
technology (IT) budgets even as they scale your infrastructure to meet
ever-increasing demands.
SQL Server 2008 is designed to help enterprises address these challenges.
This next-generation database management and analysis solution delivers
increased security, scalability, and availability to enterprise data and
analytical applications, while making them easier to build, deploy, and manage.
Extending the strengths of SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2008 provides an
integrated database management and analysis solution that can help your staff do
the following:
- Build, deploy, and manage enterprise applications that are more secure,
scalable, and reliable.
- Maximize IT productivity by reducing the complexity of developing and
supporting database applications.
- Share data across multiple platforms, applications, and devices to make it
easier to connect internal and external systems.
- Control costs without sacrificing performance, availability, scalability,
or security.
SQL Server 2008 advances your data infrastructure in three key areas: it
makes your enterprise data more manageable, your developers more productive, and
your business intelligence (BI) more comprehensive. It also breaks new ground in
affordable pricing and licensing, upgrade paths to SQL Server 2008, and the
Microsoft Windows Server System.
SQL Server Data Platform
SQL Server is a comprehensive, integrated, end-to-end data solution that
empowers your people by providing a more secure, reliable, and productive
platform for enterprise data and BI applications. SQL Server 2008 delivers
powerful, familiar tools to IT professionals as well as to information workers,
reducing the complexity of creating, deploying, managing, and using enterprise
data and analytical applications on platforms ranging from mobile devices to
enterprise data systems. Through a comprehensive feature set, interoperability
with existing systems, and automation of routine tasks, SQL Server 2008 provides
a complete data solution for enterprises of all sizes. Figure 1 shows the layout
of the SQL Server 2008 data platform.
Figure 1: Layout of the SQL Server 2008 Data Platform
The SQL Server data platform includes the following tools:
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Relational Database. A more secure, reliable, scalable, highly available
relational database engine with improved performance and support for
structured and unstructured (XML) data.
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Replication Services. Data replication for distributed or mobile data
processing applications, high systems availability, scalable concurrency with
secondary data stores for enterprise reporting solutions, and integration with
heterogeneous systems, including existing Oracle databases.
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Notification Services. Advanced notification capabilities for the
development and deployment of scalable applications that can deliver
personalized, timely information updates to a variety of connected and mobile
devices.
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Integration Services. Data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL)
capabilities for data warehousing and enterprise-wide data integration.
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Analysis Services. Online analytical processing (OLAP) capabilities for the
rapid and sophisticated analysis of large and complex datasets using
multidimensional storage.
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Reporting Services. A comprehensive solution for creating, managing, and
delivering both traditional, paper-oriented reports and interactive, Web-based
reports.
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Management Tools. SQL Server includes integrated management tools for
advanced database management and tuning as well as tight integration with
tools such as Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and Microsoft Systems
Management Server (SMS). Standard data access protocols drastically reduce the
time it takes to integrate data in SQL Server with existing systems. In
addition, native Web service support is built into SQL Server to ensure
interoperability with other applications and platforms.
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Development Tools. SQL Server offers integrated development tools for the
database engine, data extraction, transformation, and loading, data mining, OLAP,
and reporting that are tightly integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio
to provide end-to-end application development capabilities. Every major
subsystem in SQL Server ships with its own object model and set of application
program interfaces (APIs) to extend the data system in any direction that is
unique to your business.
The SQL Server 2008 data platform provides organizations of all sizes with
the following benefits:
- Capitalize on Data Assets. In addition to delivering a secure, reliable
database for line-of-business and analytical applications, SQL Server 2008 enables your people to get more value from their data by including embedded
functionality such as reporting, analysis, and data mining. You can take
advantage of this power and flexibility to deliver data to every corner of
your organization at a fraction of the cost of some other systems.
- Increase Productivity. Through comprehensive BI capabilities and
integration with familiar tools such as Microsoft Office System, SQL Server
2008 delivers timely business information to those who need it and tailors it
to their specific needs. The goal is to extend BI to your entire staff and
ultimately to help everyone, at all levels of the organization, make better
business decisions based on one of their most valuable assets - their data.
- Reduce IT Complexity. SQL Server 2008 simplifies the development,
deployment, and management of line-of-business and analytical applications by
providing a flexible development environment for developers and integrated,
automated management tools for database administrators.
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The integrated approach and focus on
ease of use and deployment in SQL Server 2008 provides the industry's lowest
upfront, implementation, and maintenance costs for rapid return on your
database investment.
SQL Server 2008 provides the technology and capabilities that your
people can count on. With significant advancements in the key areas of
enterprise data management, developer productivity, and BI, the benefits of
upgrading or migrating to SQL Server 2008 are substantial.
SQL Server 2008 has the potential to take your business to the next
level - we encourage you to try it for yourself.
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Windows SharePoint Services Overview
Introduction
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile technology that
organizations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency
of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for
collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and
geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to
information they need.
Built on Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Windows SharePoint Services also provides a foundation platform for building Web-based business applications
that can flex and scale easily to meet the changing and growing needs of your
business. Robust administrative controls for managing storage and Web
infrastructure give IT departments a cost-effective way to implement and manage
a high-performance collaboration environment. With a familiar, Web-based
interface and close integration with everyday tools including the Microsoft
Office system, Windows SharePoint Services is easy to use and can be
deployed rapidly.
Collaborate Easily and Effectively
Windows SharePoint Services helps teams stay connected and productive
by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information they need to
make more informed decisions and get the job done. Enhancements in Windows
SharePoint Services make it easier than ever to share documents, track
tasks, use e-mail efficiently and effectively, and share ideas and information.
- Provide a single workspace for teams to coordinate schedules, organize
documents, and participate in discussions - within the organization and over
the extranet.
- Easily author and manage documents, and help to ensure their integrity
with enhanced features including the option to require document checkout
before editing, the ability to view past revisions and restore to previous
versions, and the ability to set document-specific security.
- Help people and teams stay on task with a variety of communication
features that let users know when actions are required or important changes
are made to existing information or documentation, including announcements,
sophisticated alerts, surveys, and discussion boards.
- Provide creative forums for brainstorming ideas, building knowledge bases,
or simply gathering information in an easy-to-edit format with new templates
for implementing blogs (also known as weblogs) and wikis (Web sites that can
be quickly edited by team members - no special technical knowledge required).
- Stay productive while mobile with enhanced support for offline
synchronization through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 that users can
use to manage document libraries, lists, calendars, contacts, tasks, and
discussion boards even offline, and to synchronize changes when reconnected to
the network.
Get Started Quickly
As a built-in component of Windows Server 2008, Windows SharePoint
Services makes it easy for IT departments to implement a dependable,
scalable collaboration infrastructure with minimal administrative time and
effort. Close integration of Windows SharePoint Services with familiar
tools for authoring, publishing, organizing, and finding information, including
the Microsoft Office system, helps users get up to speed quickly.
- Simplify the creation and navigation of workspaces with the improved user
interface and site creation tools in Windows SharePoint Services that provide easy-to-use templates, professional-looking site themes, and the
ability to rearrange site navigation from within the browser.
- Make it easy for users to get up to speed quickly by providing integration
with familiar productivity tools such as those found in the Microsoft Office
system -users can create workspaces, post and edit documents, and view and
update calendars on SharePoint sites, all while working within Microsoft
Office system files and programs.
- Track work and tasks more easily with enhanced integration with Office
Outlook 2007 that helps users organize calendars, tasks, contact lists,
discussion boards, and meetings.
- Customize workspaces with new application templates that provide custom
scenarios for building workflows on the Windows SharePoint Services platform that address specific business processes or sets of tasks.
- Implement a collaboration environment with minimal administrative time and
effort, and with the flexibility to change deployment settings.
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Internet Firewall
 A firewall is a piece of software or hardware that creates a protective
barrier between your computer and potentially harmful content on the Internet.
It helps guard against hackers and many computer viruses and worms. If your
computer is running Windows® Microsoft recommends that you get and install
either a hardware or software firewall before connecting to the Internet.
Hardware firewalls are the best choice as they provide better security than
software firewalls. Our preferrence is SonicWall
. Our experts can configure the
firewall to prevent unauthorized access to your network as well as limiting
access to certain unwanted websites within your organization.
Antivirus
 Antivirus software helps protect your network against most viruses, worms,
Trojans, and other unwanted invaders that can destroy your databases and bring
your business to a halt. Just having an antivirus software program installed is
not enough. Our professionals can install and configure Antivirus protection on
your server and workstations, so that virus definitions are updated
automatically on a daily basis and are broadcast to all the workstation in your
network. We are experts in all the major Antivirus solutions on the market
today.
Anti-spam protection at server level
With fraudulent, inappropriate and offensive emails being delivered in vast
quantities to businesses every day, anti-spam software is a vital component of
your network's security strategy. Spam wastes network users' time and network
resources, and can also be dangerous. GFI MailEssentials offers spam protection
at server level and eliminates the need to install and update anti-spam software
on each desktop.
Microsoft Updates
 The Windows® security updates address newly discovered issues in Microsoft®
Windows, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, as well as other components of
Windows.
As a MIBAR.net customer, you will receive all the Microsoft Update
notifications via email. In addition we offer continual network maintenance,
updating your system to the newest service packs. An ounce of prevention is
worth pound of cure.
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