SQL Server
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Bajaria: Early Hulu Adopted Hadoop After SQL Server Failed to Scale
“We were on SQL server before, and that thing would never run with the data that was coming in. And we tried to build it ourselves, failed. And then Hadoop came out. And we were like, why don't we build on Hadoop?”
Rosenthal: Ballmer-era server products all became multi-billion-dollar revenue businesses
“These are All, every single one of those names I just mentioned become multi-billion dollar revenue enterprise IT server products that are built and sold during the Steve Ballmer era of Microsoft.”
Tanium uncovered hundreds of unused SQL Server licenses during a pilot
“We could also show them that they had hundreds of copies of SQL Server that were installed that they weren't using, that they were paying for. Hundreds of copies of SQL Server is hundreds of thousands of dollars a year of spend. And they started really delving…”
Bosworth: Migrating enterprises to distributed databases requires professional services
“What you require is some initial handholding with your customers, because they're still thinking on old relational paradigms, and when I say relational, that's Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, those kind of things.
And you got to get them transitioned into this new…”