This session provides an in-depth discussion on how to build a high performance, scalable architecture with SQL Server 2008 R2. The session will dive into latest features and their specific implementation requirements. Several real-world customer reference architectures, scale-up and scale-out, will be discussed along with implementation best practices. This session focuses on scalability, HA and DR features of SQL Server 2008 R2. This session provides enhancements in SQL Server 2008 R2 and how they can be used to bring business enhancement in an enterprise database environment. Along with specific features in R2, the session will discuss a real-world implementation of R2 and the lessons learned. Topics such as database mirroring, snapshot databases, clustering, resource governance, Peer to Peer replication and other related topics will be discussed in-depth.