zintp (8/2/2012)
We've seen RFPs asking for 2 terabytes of data in the cloud with 24 hour recovery time, with the data encrypted at rest. I can't find anyone who can provide SQL Server Enterprise Edition (to use TDE and partitioning) at that scale as a cloud provider (which to me means the replication over to a failover node and data is handled by them, or so I hope). Just investigating this -- any suggestions?
No idea so far, but I'll look. I suspect only AWS/Azure/Google could do this right now. Most of the other offerings are less filled out.
The one idea is that most of the companies do offer just a VM, so you can install SQL Server EE and use TDE, however if you are doing that, you're essentially doing a co-location, but allowing someone else to buy the hardware. Not sure what the point is there.