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Microsoft SQL Server is the industry-leading data platform. A product which once started as a database engine on Microsoft Windows has evolved into an entire data platform. This platform enables cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments in several different environments including Windows, Linux, containers, and Kubernetes. Besides the wide number of environments that SQL Server can be deployed in, the use cases have expanded. These uses now range from typical online transactional processing (OLTP) to various analytics options such as data warehousing, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and big data. The adaptable and flexible nature of SQL Server makes PowerStore a perfect fit for SQL Server.