HP Announcement: PDW V2 Appliance Features

New features for the HP’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) V2 appliance for SQL Server PDW have been announced!

Highlights:

Lower price point (backup and landing zone servers not longer required)
Increased CPU power (16 vs V1′s 12 cores per compute node)
Increased Memory (256 mb vs V1′s 96 mb per server)
Increased storage/scalability (support for up to 5 Petabytes of disk space vs V1′s 610Tb)
Infiniband Data Movement Speeds: FDR (14x bandwidth) vs V1′s QDR (4x bandwidth)
Microsoft V2 enhancements include “direct attached” SAS JBOD storage, Hyper V, Mirroring, and Server 2012 Storage Spaces