{"id":1333,"date":"2014-03-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dataplatforminsider\/2014\/03\/18\/sql-server-2014-releases-april-1\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:52:12","slug":"sql-server-2014-releases-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/sql-server-2014-releases-april-1\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2014 releases April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
SQL Server 2014, Microsoft\u2019s cloud first data platform, released to manufacturing today<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Today, Quentin Clark, corporate vice president of the Data Platform Group, announced<\/a> that SQL Server 2014, the foundation of Microsoft\u2019s cloud-first data platform, is released to manufacturing and will be generally available on April 1. Quentin\u2019s blog discussed the tremendous momentum with the SQL Server business as well as SQL Server 2014\u2019s new in-memory OLTP technology and hybrid cloud capabilities. Here we provide additional details on those capabilities and highlight ways customers are getting tremendous value with SQL Server 2014.<\/p>\n The worldwide data explosion is creating new challenge and new opportunities for enterprises seeking to transform their business to better respond to ever changing market conditions. Businesses need better performance from their transactional applications to respond to customer demand in real time, not at the end of the day when the batch process completes.\u00a0 We have several great examples of customers using the new, in-memory OLTP engine in SQL Server 2014 to deliver breakthrough performance to their mission critical applications, including:<\/p>\n The hybrid capabilities in SQL Server 2014<\/a> make it easier for customers to increase the resiliency of their applications, without adding significant additional cost.\u00a0 We are bringing new value to customers, including the ability to add SQL Server 2014 in a Window Azure Virtual Machine as an additional secondary to your AlwaysOn solution. Lufthansa Systems<\/b><\/a> is a full-spectrum IT consulting and services organization that serves airlines, financial services firms, healthcare systems, and many more businesses. To better anticipate customer needs for high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, Lufthansa Systems piloted a solution on SQL Server 2014 and Windows Azure that led to faster and more robust data recovery, reduced costs, and the potential for a vastly increased focus on customer service.\u00a0<\/p>\n Backup to Windows Azure enables customers to configure backups, which are compressed and encrypted, directly to Azure for greater data protection, taking advantage of Microsoft\u2019s global datacenter. Customers gain the benefits of Windows Azure storage, which offers geographic redundancy at a lower cost than maintaining additional hardware. Beyond SQL Server 2014, this technology will also be generally available as a standalone tool, SQL Server Backup to Windows Azure Tool<\/a>, on April 1 supporting prior versions of SQL Server. In addition to greater data protection, SQL Server 2014, combined with the standalone tool, can provide significant savings for CAPEX and OPEX as well as deliver on customer needs for greater consistency in backup strategies across their SQL Server environments.\u00a0<\/p>\n Beyond in-memory OLTP and these hybrid capabilities, there is a lot more to be excited about in SQL Server 2014: \u00a0<\/p>\n SQL Server 2014 continues to deliver a complete business intelligence (BI) platform for both corporate and self-service BI to help you gain faster insights on any data. Our business intelligence capabilities has received strong recognition across our data platform from analysts becoming stronger with the recent release of Power BI for Office 365. Power BI is our cloud-based business intelligence service that gives people a powerful new way to work with data in the tools they use every day, Excel and Office 365.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Sign-up for the SQL Server 2014 release available April 1 Thank you to our amazing SQL Server and data platform community who have given us significant contributions to this release. For Community Technology Preview 2, there were nearly 200K evaluations of SQL Server 2014 including 20K evaluations with SQL Server 2014 running in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine.\u00a0 We appreciate your active engagement to evaluate the new release and we are excited to share the final production release with you on April 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n For those who want access to the release as soon as possible, please sign-up<\/a> to be notified once the release is available.\u00a0 Also, please join us on April 15 for the Accelerate Your Insights event<\/a> to learn about our data platform strategy and how more customers are gaining significant value with SQL Server 2014.\u00a0 There also will be additional launch events worldwide so check with your local Microsoft representatives or your local PASS chapter<\/a> for more information on SQL Server readiness opportunities.\u00a0<\/p>\n Thanks.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Eron Kelly<\/p>\n General Manager<\/p>\n Data Platform Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SQL Server 2014, Microsoft\u2019s cloud first data platform, released to manufacturing today Today, Quentin Clark, corporate vice president of the Data Platform Group, announced that SQL Server 2014, the foundation of Microsoft\u2019s cloud-first data platform, is released to manufacturing and will be generally available on April 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","footnotes":""},"post_tag":[],"product":[],"content-type":[2448],"topic":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","content-type-updates"],"yoast_head":"\n
Delivering breakthrough performance with In-Memory OLTP<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n
Enabling greater availability and data protection with new hybrid scenarios<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
More customer value for mission critical applications and hybrid cloud<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n
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