Organizations that want to leverage business intelligence (BI) applications have learned that implementing a data warehouse is the most efficient way to support the analytical processing that BI requires.

For SQL Server 2008 R2 users, the Fast Track Data Warehouse reference architecture provides a data center design roadmap that can help them create a balanced data warehouse configuration in which all components (servers, storage, network, and software) can be utilized to their maximum capacity. Read this white paper to learn how to implement this recommended SQL Server 2008 R2 data warehouse configuration.