SQL Server 2008 R2 DataCenter

The DataCenter edition is designed to distribute the high-performance data platform for mission-critical application workloads, and leverage the maximum OS memory limits and physical server resources to cater to maximum virtualization platform support that is essential for database infrastructure consolidation with maximum ROI.

The key effectiveness of this edition is Application and Multi-Server Management (Utility Control Point) for managing multiple instances (up to 25) of SQL Server services. The DataCenter edition offers key levels of scalability with a support of more than eight processors and up to 256 logical processors and memory support limits up to Operating System maximum.

The ROI on consolidation and virtualization is high with a support on memory limits up to the Operating System maximum. The latest supplement for this edition is StreamInsight, which enables you to process a large volume of events across multiple data-streams with low latency and an advantage of mining the KPIs from the historical data for business effectiveness.