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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The Digital DoorMatt : SQL</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/matt/archive/tags/SQL/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: SQL</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Cutting costs with SQL Server</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/matt/archive/2009/01/29/3194365.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:22:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3194365</guid><dc:creator>digitaldive</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/matt/comments/3194365.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/matt/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3194365</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/business/event/cutting-costs-with-sql-server-2008.mspx"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="clip_image002" border="0" alt="clip_image002" align="left" src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/matt/WindowsLiveWriter/CuttingcostswithSQLServer_CA18/clip_image002_3.jpg" width="358" height="311" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We’re all experiencing the effects of tough economic times, and as most you will probably have heard, even Microsoft are taking drastic measures to reduce expenditure.&amp;#160; From an IT perspective, there are ways and means to drive down the cost of IT.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My colleagues, John Noakes and Matthew Stephen, have put together an easy-to-understand video on this very theme, with specific reference to using &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx"&gt;SQL Server&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/why-upgrade.aspx"&gt;save money&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160; Also on the video, Stephen Porter discusses using &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/en/us/default.aspx"&gt;System Center Data Protection Manager&lt;/a&gt; to ensure your sensitive and business-critical information is protected.&amp;#160; Take a look here: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/business/event/cutting-costs-with-sql-server-2008.mspx"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/uk/business/event/cutting-costs-with-sql-server-2008.mspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ffffff"&gt;a&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3194365" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/matt/archive/tags/cost+saving/default.aspx">cost saving</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/matt/archive/tags/SQL/default.aspx">SQL</category></item></channel></rss>