As application portfolios continue to grow, many organizations have turned to virtualization to achieve more cost-effective utilization of their hardware purchases. Yet many IT teams continue to run database management systems (DBMSs)—such as Microsoft SQL Server—on physical servers, even as the sizes of their companies’ databases continue to grow. New data sources, such as the data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices and deep integration of operational software within organizational processes, can strain legacy versions of SQL Server running on older hardware.

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