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Call Center & CAD

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Call Center & CAD

Computer Aided Dispatch and CAD2CAD

In today’s complex public safety environments, the need for information coordination is more vital than ever before. SIOS knows that the availability and reliability of computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems can be a matter of life and death. These systems enable emergency 911 operators and dispatchers to prioritize and record incident calls, dispatch first responders, and coordinate response. CAD systems capture and disseminate critical information such as, the incident type and location, the location and availability of police, EMT, and fire teams; and known site hazards; in real time. It’s prudent to ensure there uptime. Due to the urgent nature of these systems, even brief downtime for CAD and CAD2CAD systems could delay response time and impede coordination of resources in dynamic emergency situations. Some communities pool their emergency resources for efficiency and fast response. They connect CAD systems using CAD2CAD software for inter-community, inter-agency coordination and collaboration.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery

SIOS clustering software provides high availability and disaster protection for CAD systems, effectively ensuring 99.99% uptime availability. SIOS software monitors the CAD application environment and if it detects an issue, automatically fails over operation to a standby cluster node.

HA for CAD Systems in Windows

If your CAD or CAD2CAD system runs on Microsoft Windows Servers, add SIOS DataKeeper software to a Windows Server Failover Clustering environment to eliminate the cost and downtime risk of shared storage.

Cut Software Licensing Costs

There are multiple ways to create a cloud-based CAD or CAD2CAD hub that is protected from downtime and disasters. SIOS software monitors the CAD or CAD2CAD hub application to detect problems and ensure it is operational. If an issue arises, it automatically orchestrates failover to standby cluster servers. For system running on Microsoft Windows Servers, simply add SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition for simple, cost-efficient SANless clustering. SIOS DataKeeper host-based, block level replication replicates and synchronizes local storage data to the standby server quickly and efficiently – without slowing down or interfering with the operation of the CAD and/or CAD2CAD system.

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Building Management & Security

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Building Management & Security

Building Management & Security

SIOS appreciates that every aspect of building management and security (BMS) —from monitoring and surveillance systems to computerized maintenance management to power management systems, relies on critical applications and data. SIOS high availability clustering software protects these critical systems from unplanned failures at any level; infrastructure, network, and application and through local, regional, and/or site-wide disasters.

Video Management Systems (VMS)

Electronic monitoring and surveillance systems may comprise a wide range of subsystems, including video management systems, access control systems, perimeter protection, physical security information management (PSIM) software, fire safety systems and others. Even brief downtime for these systems could put the entire facility at risk of intrusion, theft, vandalism, fire.

BMS Building Management

Across All Platforms and Operating Systems

Whether these systems are running in virtualized environments (VMware, Hyper-V), traditional on-premises, or cloud environments, SIOS clustering software protects applications without the need for specialized hardware or configuration restrictions. Use SIOS DataKeeper with Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) for robust HA/DR protection without the cost and complexity of shared storage. Use SIOS Protection Suite for Linux for powerful application-aware clustering in a Linux environment.

Building Management

Total building management solutions work by providing an end-to-end solution for all building operations in a single platform. They are a convergence of multiple systems, spanning video surveillance management, recording and archival, voice, data, storage, industrial monitoring (SCADA systems), HVAC, building and power management, security systems, video intercoms, irrigation, billboards, lifts, and lighting control. Many are designed as a powerful platform that integrates multiple vendor applications within it including product from Johnson Control, Philips Dynalite, and Schneider Electric and others.

SIOS DataKeeper integrates with Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering to deliver simple, cost efficient, high availability for virtual (VMware or Hyper-V) machines that supported multiple integrations of devices and data security. SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux delivers robust, application-aware HA/DR protection for systems running in open source environments.

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Webinar: Business Continuity Considerations for Hybrid and Cloud-based SQL Server Deployments

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Webinar: Business Continuity Considerations for Hybrid and Cloud-based SQL Server Deployments

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Availability is one of the core tenets for any SQL Server deployment – the business needs to stay up and running. This session will cover how achieving that goal for hybrid and cloud-only deployments of SQL Server is both similar to as well as different from purely on-premises (physical or virtual) configurations. You’ll also get top tips, tricks, dos, and don’ts for successfully deploying and administering Always On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances, and more to be an availability hero when you are not just deploying on-premises solutions anymore.

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Fact Sheet: Oil & Gas

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OIL & GAS

Fact Sheet: Oil & Gas

Protecting Systems from Downtime and Data Loss

SIOS Technology’s high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) software protects critical applications, databases, and systems used in the oil and gas industry from downtime and disasters due to infrastructure, network, and application failures.

Protects Both Windows and Linux Applications and Databases

SIOS offers the flexibility to build SAN and SANless clusters for Windows or Linux environments on-premises physical servers, virtualized servers, and in the cloud. Easily move Windows Server Failover Clustering to the cloud without disruption, or build a Linux clustering environment with application-specific intelligence built-in. Configure clusters across cloud availability zones and regions for maximum HA/DR protection, or create hybrid cloud to meet your specific needs. SIOS helps you ensure regulatory requirements are met, while keeping your systems online and available at all times.

SIOS DataKeeper

Use SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software to protect your business-critical Windows applications and the databases they run on, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, in a physical, virtual, or cloud environment. Add SIOS DataKeeper to a Windows Server Failover Clustering environment to create a SANless cluster where traditional shared storage clusters are impossible or impractical. Fast, efficient host-based replication synchronizes local storage on all cluster nodes for maximum configuration flexibility. Or, add replication to your existing SAN-based Windows cluster for DR.

  • Configuration Flexibility – Protect all server workloads. Replicate within a single site or across data centers.
  • Cost-Savings – Advanced clustering without costly application upgrades (e.g. SQL Server Enterprise Edition)
  • Reduce Complexity – Migrate on-prem WSFC to cloud without disruption

SIOS Protection Suite for Linux

Run business-critical applications on-premises or in a flexible, scalable cloud environment such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, without sacrificing performance or high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) protection. SIOS clusters uniquely failover across cloud regions or availability zones for true HA protection. SIOS Protection Suite includes powerful Application Recovery Kits (ARKs) , that automate manual tasks, monitor the entire application stack, and ensure failovers are reliable and maintain application-specific best practices. SIOS ARKs ensure HA/DR protection out-of-the-box without the need for tuning, manual scripting, or specialized training.

  • Advanced Automation – Auto-validated user input eliminates the need for costly, specialized skills and the risk inherent in manual scripting to configure and manage a cluster in complex environments used in the Oil and Gas industry
  • Deep application monitoring – Monitors the entire application environment
  • Application-aware automated failover – maintains compliance with application best practices for reliable failovers without surprises

The Industry’s Most Reliable Failover Protection

SIOS products protect critical applications and databases on which the systems used by oil and gas companies run from downtime and data loss.

HA/DR Fact Sheet

Applications Protected

Applications used in the oil and gas industry, such as Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), that run on SQL Server, SAP HANA, and Oracle databases can be protected by SIOS HA/DR solutions.

Environments & Platforms Protected

Microsoft Azure Cloud, AWS EC2, Google Cloud Platform, Hybrid Cloud, VMware, Hyper-V, On-Premises

Operating Systems Protected

Windows, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, Rocky Linux

Databases and ERPs Protected

SQL Server, SAP, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, SharePoint, MaxDB and many others

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Unlike traditional shared storage clusters, SIOS synchronizes local storage in a SANless
configuration, enabling failover clusters in physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments.

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Video: SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux v9.7 Adds New HA/DR Capabilities For SAP HANA

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Video: SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux v9.7 Adds New HA/DR Capabilities For SAP HANA


In this video, our VP of Global Sales and Marketing Margaret Hoagland introduces the HANA Multitarget feature in our latest release of SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux.

Key highlights of this video interview:

SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux is a high availability clustering software that protects critical applications such as SAP, S/4HANA, SQL Server, and Oracle from downtime and disasters. It works by detecting any kind of a failure on the primary node. In the event of a failure, it moves operations to a secondary node where it can continue.

It supports major Linux distributions such as SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle, and Rocky. Customers can standardize their high availability environment and have the same experience regardless of the operating system.

New features and capabilities in SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux v9.7, include HANA Multitarget:

  • It automates the process of failing over to a secondary node plus replicating to a third or even a fourth node for disaster recovery.
  • The secondary node will assume full ownership of the primary node status.
  • It allows customers to have the third node in a geographically separated location.
  • It eliminates the complexity and the manual scripting, which can be quite cumbersome.
  • It uses HANA system replication, so it’s in alignment with SAP best practices.

This feature came directly from customer feedback. SIOS customers have large SAP environments with big HANA databases and complex disaster recovery requirements.

This is a straightforward upgrade process, no caveats. If the customer is extending to a disaster recovery location, they need to consult the SIOS documentation for instructions.

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