December 27, 2024 |
Achieving High Availability in the Retail IndustryAchieving High Availability in the Retail IndustryEven minor drops in availability with retail applications can cause a substantial amount of loss of revenue and loss of business in the retail industry, so ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for retail applications is essential. In this episode of TFiR Let’s Talk Swapnil Bhartiya sits down with Ian Allton, Solutions Architect at SIOS Technology, to discuss the key challenges for high availability in the retail industry and how SIOS Technology’s solutions are helping the retail industry with high availability and disaster recovery. Key High Availability Components in the Retail IndustryRetail Challenges and High Availability: The critical importance of high availability in the competitive retail industry, where application downtime can lead to substantial costs and lost business. SIOS Technology’s Robust Solutions: SIOS provides out-of-the-box recovery kits for Windows and Linux environments, protecting major applications across physical, virtual, or cloud platforms. Downtime Impacts Revenue: Downtime in retail systems halts revenue generation, making the ease of installation, setup, and operation of SIOS solutions particularly beneficial. Cloud Misconceptions Addressed: Many retailers mistakenly believe cloud providers ensure high availability; Allton discusses how SIOS simplifies HA solutions to fill this gap. Essential HA/DR Capabilities: Retailers should prioritize business continuity, operational flexibility, and automation in HA/DR solutions to prevent revenue loss and ensure seamless operations. SIOS HA/DR Solutions for the Retail IndustryFor a proven HA solution that adapts to your specific needs and overcomes these challenges, consider SIOS. Our solutions are designed to provide robust high availability for your critical applications, ensuring that your investment turns into a true treasure. Contact SIOS today to learn how we can help you maximize your HA strategy. Reproduced with permission from SIOS |
December 9, 2024 |
Exploring the Power of AI in Software DevelopmentExploring the Power of AI in Software Development“Don’t just launch an AI integration or deploy AI tools because it sounds cool,” advises Cassius Rhue, VP, Customer Experience, SIOS Technology. “Understand the reasons, risks and rewards, and strategy behind your implementation. Be sure to understand all the costs for integration of these tools as well. These costs will go beyond just the price tag on the tool or service.” Reproduced with permission from SIOS |
December 3, 2024 |
2025 Predictions by Cassius Rhue, VP, Customer Experience, SIOS Technology2025 Predictions by Cassius Rhue, VP, Customer Experience, SIOS TechnologyCassius Rhue, Vice President of Customer Experience at SIOS Technology, shares key IT predictions for 2025 in The IT Nerd. He highlights trends like real-time failover for AI-driven security, the rise of hybrid and multi-cloud failover clustering, and a focus on simplified, IT generalist-friendly solutions. Reproduced with permission from SIOS |
November 25, 2024 |
The challenge of deploying secure and high availability IT SystemsThe challenge of deploying secure and high availability IT SystemsNovember’s issue of Intelligent CIO features a compelling byline article by Phil Merry, an SIOS Customer Support Engineer who discusses the challenges of deploying secure and highly available IT systems.
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November 19, 2024 |
SIOS High Availability HA for Nutanix AHV EnvironmentsSIOS High Availability HA for Nutanix AHV EnvironmentsIn today’s fast-paced IT environment, it’s crucial to keep your important data and applications available and reliable at all times. Nutanix AHV (Acropolis HyperVisor) stands out as a robust, enterprise-grade virtualization solution, offering seamless management and scalability. However, achieving high availability within Nutanix AHV environments requires a strategic approach, especially in Linux. SIOS offers comprehensive high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions tailored specifically for Nutanix AHV environments running on Windows and all major Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Rocky Linux, and Oracle Linux. SIOS leverages clustering and automated failover technologies to provide unparalleled resilience to virtualized workloads running on Nutanix AHV. By integrating seamlessly with Nutanix AHV, SIOS extends its capabilities to offer automated monitoring, proactive detection of failures, and swift recovery mechanisms, ensuring minimal downtime and uninterrupted business operations. Application Aware High AvailabilityWhat sets SIOS apart from other HA solutions is its unique application-aware HA capabilities. This means that not only is the infrastructure protected, but the applications themselves are monitored and protected against disruptions. SIOS ensures that critical workloads remain accessible and responsive through failures and outages, planned and unplanned. SIOS HA: Simple and Reliable Deployment and ManagementSIOS HA for Nutanix AHV environments simplifies deployment and management through its simple web management console and streamlined configuration processes. Administrators can easily set up HA clusters, define failover policies, and monitor the health of their virtualized infrastructure from a centralized dashboard. SIOS HA for Nutanix AHV environments combines the resilience of Nutanix AHV with the reliability of SIOS HA, offering organizations a robust solution to achieve continuous availability and mitigate the risks associated with downtime. Keep Essential Linux Applications Running without Downtime or Data LossSIOS LifeKeeper for Linux is a simple, cost-efficient clustering software that provides complete high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) protection for SAP, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, MaxDB, and other essential applications operating in virtualized environments, as well as across physical, cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud. Applications protected by LifeKeeper keep running through a wide range of fault, failures, and local, site-wide, and regional disasters, enabling you to meet your availability SLAs with ease. Advanced Application MonitoringUnlike other clustering software that only monitors server operation, SIOS LifeKeeper monitors the health of the entire application environment. Fast, Reliable Failover Risk-Free Disaster Recovery Testing Wide-range Linux support High Availability Protection for Windows ApplicationsProtect critical Windows applications from downtime and disasters with SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition. Simply add SIOS DataKeeper to your Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) environment for HA/DR clustering without the cost and single point-of-failure risk of shared storage. Fast, block-level replication synchronizes local storage on all nodes, giving the standby servers immediate access to your most current data in the event of a failover. Save Up to 70% on Software Licensing Costs Protect Unlimited Number of Databases Complete Configuration Flexibility LifeKeeper for Windows is a tightly integrated combination of high availability (HA) failover clustering, continuous application monitoring, data replication, and configurable recovery policies. It delivers 99.99% application availability, and disaster recovery (DR) for applications running on Microsoft Windows Server in physical, virtual, cloud, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. Application Intelligence Optimized for Performance Achieve complete high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) protection for critical Windows or Linux workloads in Nutanix AHV environments, as well as across physical, cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud. Schedule a demo or sign up for your free trial today. |