So, SQL Server Data Services has morphed into SQL Services. You may well have seen me present on SSDS at user groups or TechEd.

SQL Services will eventually offer a really broad platform but at the moment it’s just the SSDS bits warmed up by the looks.

Forthcoming will be:

• ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) endpoint being announced.
• Database – Still the flexible ACE model. Expanded capabilities, queries, joins other operators
• Datasync
• Reporting (Later)
• Data mining (Later)
• ETL (Later)

Bob Muglia who is a pretty good presenter.

Some guy from Red Prairie who did a less than compelling demo.

System Center “Atlanta
”Bob showed off a cool new Silverlight based System Center control panel.
It basically allows agents on Ops Manager servers to feed messages back through the Service Bus.
It’s then stored in SSDS.