Any business can have critical levels of workloads, including OLTP, CRM, ERP, Opex and various other tasks that are very heavy on SQL servers. Therefore, a company’s choice of an SQL server becomes very important to almost all of its operations. Businesses require a platform that can efficiently:

Handle large amounts of data
Ensure security
Add capacity as needed
Economize on data center space
Shorten deployment time
Simplify data management through automation