MS SQL Server

Avail radical cost savings by hosting MS SQL Server through RTCS

RTCS provides the most flexible IT infrastructure to host MS SQL server for your business, and provides you the benefit of incredible costs savings. Hosting high-performance applications, like MS SQL server, presents a number of business challenges including manageability and cost. Take the advantage of Microsoft SQL Server hosting by RTCS, to minimize management and costs while enhancing scalability and building differentiated services.

RTCS helps to minimize costs in the following ways-

• The pay-as-you-go utility model- The pay-as-you-go subscription model for cloud computing services provides organizations with on-demand, pay-as-you-go computing power and storage infrastructure in order to run, scale, and manage their web applications. This enables businesses to reduce monthly recurring charges by paying only for the resources they use. This subscription model increases their returns on investments.
•  No expenditure for on-premises infrastructure and on-premises support- Companies do not have to purchase on-premises infrastructure, hardware, etc. They use support personnel provided by the host. Set-up, operational, and maintenance costs are dramatically reduced.
• No expenditure for dedicated servers or data centers required- Placing applications with the RTCS means, you no longer require capital expenditure for a dedicated server. While the cloud isn’t free, running applications there allows you to enjoy the possibility of reducing an application’s server count all the way to zero.
  Having fewer servers implies having a smaller data center footprint. That translates to direct savings on real estate, power, and cooling, and indirect savings on business continuity and maintenance. Cloud model offers small and medium-size businesses the possibility of eliminating the need for a data center.
• Significant reduction in IT costs - By moving applications and workloads to a cloud platform, your IT staff can instantly ratchet resources up or down depending on the needs like, for example, quick setting up of new solutions with minimal upfront capital expenses. IT staff members are then free to concentrate their talents on tasks specific to your business rather than on general technical problems. This can reduce overall IT cost significantly while gaining more agility to respond to new business demands.
• Reduced MS SQL Server’s operational and maintenance costs- Hosting eliminates, for you, the need to set-up, patch, or manage MS SQL server database software. You can save on time and management costs with automated high availability and fault tolerance.
• More profit- The cloud’s ability to save you money can extend to making your front-line business operations more agile and reliable, and your business more competitive, which can help you actually add revenue.

Complete Scalability - scale rapidly up and down

For companies that go through major growth periods, the ability to scale up or down as their business grows or shrinks has both an operational and monetary impact on their organization. Running MS SQL Server through RTCS allows companies to either upgrade or downgrade their CPU and RAM to handle whatever loads are needed. In a dedicated, traditional computing environment, organizations are looking at a significant downtime and less predictability because they do not have the level of transparency and visibility into their application needs that they would get in a cloud. Cloud supports global growth, and allows you to reach new markets immediately.

Data Availability - MS SQL Server offers a broad range of capabilities including log shipping, database mirroring, replication, and failover clustering. There are a number of techniques that managed service providers like RTCS offer companies, who can decide if they want it deployed at the database level, the instance level, or the hardware level. For example, businesses with multiple datacenter sites can use replication to keep their datacenters synchronized. Additionally, multi-national companies can access their data in the same manner wherever they are located.

Enhanced Predictability - Costs are always a black hole when managing data-intensive applications. With internal IT engineers constantly being pulled into different directions, it is difficult for companies to understand how much time is dedicated to their database applications. Utilizing cloud infrastructure service as part of SQL Server makes it much easier to predict the exact cost of the IT environment, and project monthly recurring operating expenses.

Acceleration of MS SQL Server’s reporting and analytical capabilities

SQL Server’s self-service business intelligence and reporting capabilities allow organizations to easily create, share, and analyze millions of dynamic reports that are stored in easily accessible libraries. This enables companies running SQL Server databases in the cloud to accelerate reporting and analytical processes, and to improve the management of critical data across diverse systems.

Hosting increases efficiency and robustness of MS SQL Server

SQL server hosting allows for developing robust and scalable web applications, which can handle thousands of visitors daily. When the website content is in a hosted SQL database, it becomes very fast and easy to search the content for a particular keyword or phrase. Having your data in a hosted SQL server allows for easy and efficient management of the content. Also when a website utilizes SQL server hosting, it becomes very easy to apply design and layout changes to the website. You can deliver rich experiences across the phone and browser.

Total simplicity and full manageability for your business  - Companies do not have to think about which vendor is supplying their hardware and other infrastructure. They do not have to keep spare equipments on hand in case something goes wrong, and they do not have to worry about how much capital needs to be raised to purchase additional hardware, software, etc., to meet uncertain future IT demands. Hosting enables developers and administrators to focus on data model design instead of physical management.

Managing databases is an intensive process. That is where a typical IT organization spends a significant amount of time and resources. That drops drastically when businesses leverage the knowledge and expertise of RTCS, which has the experience and established best-practices to provide a streamlined and process-oriented workflow that enables businesses to realize many benefits of running MS SQL Server databases in the cloud. Simplicity of hosting MS SQL server through the RTCS’ cloud computing service, helps businesses to gain a better return on their investments.

Full Flexibility - While there is not necessarily a single approach to moving to the cloud, flexible hosting providers, like RTCS, have the expertise that allows businesses to start with a small application’s hosting, overcome a specific pain point, and then shift into a deeper, more dynamic, and comprehensive application hosting that drives innovation to meet the ever-changing needs of the market. As they get more comfortable and learn how things work, they are able to do more as it fits their approach. You can choose the MS SQL Server edition that best fits your current needs and budget, and can easily upgrade your edition in the future if it is required.

Developer’s agility enhancement - You can focus more on innovation, and less on setting up the infrastructure. MS SQL server appeals to a wider group of web developers, and provides developers with a familiar data access interface and relational data model. They can develop an application in an on-premises instance of SQL Server, and then deploy it on the hosted MS SQL Server. They can take advantage of programming technologies like LINQ and the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework, PHP, and Java.

Instant, anytime, anywhere, secure accessibility -Through internet, RTCS provides your organization with instant, anytime, secure access to data and collaboration tools from almost anywhere. You can use MS SQL server as a data hub to provide employees with secure access to information. You can maintain confidentiality and privacy through secure logon credentials. 

Provision of immense data storage  - Hosted MS SQL server provides the enterprise-class data storage in minutes, and capability to respond rapidly to the changing demands. You can avail storage for massive data, without spending time deploying and securing server hardware and network components. You have to pay for only what you need, and can extend data storage as and when required.  

Strengthen your security with the cloud - RTCS provides data centers that are physically secure. It provides state-of-the-art data center facilities that employ the very latest in access control and data protection, and takes care of your data through trained data security professionals.

Full Backup facility - RTCS provides backup of data at multiple locations. All Servers are located at Tier IV data centers in earthquake free zones, with redundant power source, air-conditioning, and biometric security.

Latest hosting technology - All servers run on RAID 10, high speed SCSI disks to ensure high performance. Servers use the latest and fastest Intel Chips - 'Nehalem' or 'Harpertown'. Data centers have 7 Internet backbone providers with more than 20 GBPS of cumulative bandwidth.

Dedicated professional support -  RTCS provides free 24/7 dedicated, professional, and unlimited support via phone, chat and email.

Opportunity to be a part of the Paradigm Shift in Computing - Cloud computing is as much a paradigm shift in data center and IT management as it is in culmination of IT capacity to drive business ahead. It can be narrowly defined as quick, anytime provisioning and scaling of services. But really, it’s an opportunity to completely transform how your business and its people work. Forward-thinking CIOs are using the cloud to run IT as a Service (ITaaS). With ITaaS, your organization can see huge decreases in data center TCO while simultaneously empowering your end users and IT staff with new capabilities through more reliable and responsive services.

Rich Experience - With adequate experience of serving businesses in the cloud, RTCS understands the value of technology that is scalable and familiar from day one for you and your employees. We offer the most complete set of cloud-based business solutions, and round-the-clock support to ensure we get it right together.

Microsoft SQL Server The Best Way to Manage Your Data!

Microsoft SQL Server is a database management and analysis system for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions. SQL Server 2008 includes enhanced XML support, integration of .NET Framework objects in databases, improved integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System, as well as improved analysis, reporting, and data integration services.

Versions of Microsoft SQL Server-

• SQL Server 2008 R2
• SQL Server 2008
• SQL Server 2005
• SQL Server 2000

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