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Interview with Jerry Melnick, COO of SIOS Technology Corp.

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VSM: What is the SIOS Technology survey and what is its objective?

Jerry Melnick: In June 2014, SIOS Technology Corp. conducted a survey of large corporations to understand current trends and challenges related to providing high availability (HA) and disaster protection (DR) for SQL Server, specifically:

  • Most important challenges to providing HA and DR
  • Costs of HA and DR for SQL Server
  • Plans and priorities for 2014/2015

The survey was conducted for 10 business days and elicited responses from 191 IT professionals. Most respondents were from large enterprises with more than 1000 employees (51 percent) and were headquartered in the United States (76 percent), 9 percent were from EU countries. Respondents represented a broad range of industries, including telecommunications (31 percent), healthcare (16 percent), and financial services (15 percent).

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SQL is Causing Problems in the Data Center

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Study says high availability and disaster recovery are becoming more difficult to manage as software license costs rise

Image -- Servers -- SQL is Causing Problems in the DatacenterCloud computing vendor SIOS Technology said data centers are facing problems running high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) on SQL Server systems.

It conducted a study that found operators face escalating costs of software licenses and with storing and managing the databases.

The service provider, which polled 191 IT staff, found that improving SQL server performance is a priority for nearly half the industry – 43%.

But finding money for such upgrades could be a problem, with a majority of respondents saying they also have unexpected budget problems.

The main challenges in providing HA and DR for SQL were found to be the rising cost of SQL licensing (experienced by 71% of users), the rising cost of SAN storage (68%) and SAN configuration limitations (69%).

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Storage Newsletter: Providing HA and Disaster Protection for SQL Server Poses Variety of Challenges

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SIOS Technology Corp., maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, announced the results of its SQL Server HA survey of large corporations in the United States (76%) and Europe (9%).

The survey elicited responses from 191 IT professionals across a range of vertical industries to understand current trends and challenges related to providing HA and DR for SQL Server.

Specific areas covered by the survey, included identifying the most important challenges to providing HA and DR; understanding the costs of HA and DR for SQL Server; and determining the plans and priorities for 2014/2015.

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Data Center Post: SIOS Technology Releases Premier SQL Server High Availability Survey Results

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SIOS Technology just issued the results of its premier SQL Server High Availability survey of large corporations in the United States (76%) and Europe (9%). The survey elicited responses from 191 IT professionals across a wide range of vertical industries to understand current trends and challenges related to providing high availability (HA) and disaster protection (DR) for SQL Server.

Specific areas covered by the survey, included identifying the most important challenges to providing HA and DR; understanding the costs of HA and DR for SQL Server; and determining the plans and priorities for 2014/2015.

Improving SQL performance was rated as the highest priority for the next 12 months (43 percent) followed by improving SQL Server disaster protection (recovery point and recovery time objectives) (24 percent). This emphasis on DR is further reflected by 40 percent who agreed or strongly agreed that “Our SQL DR strategy needs improvement.”

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TVTechnology: SQL Server Data Centers Need High Availability and Disaster Protection, But At What Price?

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By using local storage you not only eliminate the cost and complexity of a SAN, you also ensure fast, efficient SQL response times.

Image - TVTechnology LogoLast month a company called SIOS Technology Corp. conducted a survey of large data centers to understand current trends and challenges related to providing high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) for Microsoft’s SQL Server (a commonly used database for large amounts of data). The company hosting the survey said it has developed a better (more cost-effective) way of managing these two critical elements of data center and large file-based production operations.

For most survey respondents, controlling costs was the most significant challenge. The rising cost of Microsoft SQL licensing
 was next (17 percent), followed by vendor lock in (14 percent) and the cost of SAN storage (13 percent).

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