OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has just ranked Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as being the value leader, hitting the top spot for price and performance benchmarks and providing the lowest total cost of ownership for an enterprise-class database.
The TPC is a non-profit corporation, founded in 1988
to define transaction processing and database benchmarks as well as to
disseminate objective, verifiable performance data to the industry. TPC
benchmarks are real world, business focussed, measurements and
evaluations of functions and operations.
TPC-E is the newest industry benchmark for
online transaction processing, and some are arguing that it is the most
challenging as well.
Which is probably why Microsoft is doing the victory dance having
finished number one in the latest Transaction Processing Performance
Council tests.
Using new Intel Dunnington x64 processor driven hardware, SQL Server
2008 finished number 1 for
price/performance, and on the new IBM System x3950 M2 server it
finished in top spot for performance.
Fausto Ibarra, Director of Performance Benefits for SQL Server at
Microsoft, says that "SQL Server is the only data management and
business intelligence platform to be proven capable of delivering
scalable results on TPC-E."
Indeed, Microsoft can now point to seven new benchmark results since
the release to manufacture of SQL Server 2008 in August that establish
it right at the top of the online transaction processing tree as far as
real-world performance is concerned.
Microsoft is, it would appear, in a boastful mood at the moment as a
press release also claims that independent software vendor solutions
have set a world record benchmark on four-socket industry-standard
blade servers in three-tier SAP AG Sales and Distribution Standard
Application benchmark 5.
Which is nice, as is attaining the largest benchmarks ever on Siemens
Teamcenter digital product life cycle management solution, Microsoft
Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics AX and Camstar Inc. Manufacturing
Execution Systems solution.
"These benchmark results show the type of performance benefits
Microsoft customers can expect when they team the enhancements of SQL
Server 2008 with the hardware advancements from industry partners"
Ibarra concludes.
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