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Boston.com: SIOS and Storage Switzerland Webinar Featuring Analyst George Crump Unveils HA and DR Must-Haves for High Availability and DR Protection in the Cloud

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SIOS Technology Corp., maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced a joint, live webinar featuring Storage Switzerland President and Founder George Crump and SIOS Technology Director of Field Engineering Tony Tomarchio. George and Tony will discuss the best practices for selecting a method of protecting Microsoft applications and data from downtime in an Amazon Web Services, Azure or other cloud environment.

The live webinar “HA and DR Must-Haves for High Availability and DR Protection in the Cloud” will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 10:00a PST / 1:00p EST.

To register, please visit here: http://storageswiss.com/2014/10/07/ha-and-dr-must-haves/

In this webinar, attendees will learn:

  1. The advantages of a hybrid cloud or full cloud SQL Server environment
  2. The limitations of cloud environments when it comes to providing HA and DR
  3. The difficulty in implementing SQL Server in a “hybrid” fashion
  4. How to overcome these limitations to provide full HA and DR

George Crump, president and founder of Storage Switzerland, has more than 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the U.S., he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS and SAN. Prior to founding Storage Switzerland he was CTO at one the nation’s largest storage integrators where he was in charge of technology testing, integration and product selection.

At SIOS Technology, Tony Tomarchio is responsible for defining and delivering technical pre-sales services, support and best practices to SIOS customers, prospects and partners. Tony has more than a decade of experience providing systems management and high availability solutions to enterprise customers.

About SIOS Technology Corp.

SIOS Technology Corp. makes SAN and #SANLess software solutions that make clusters easy to use and easy to own. An essential part of any cluster solution, SIOS SAN and #SANLess software provides the flexibility to build Clusters Your Way™ to protect your choice of Windows or Linux environment in any configuration (or combination) of physical, virtual and cloud (public, private, and hybrid) without sacrificing performance or availability. The unique SIOS #SANLess clustering solution allows you to configure clusters with local storage, eliminating both the cost and the single-point-of-failure risk of traditional shared (SAN) storage.

Founded in 1999, SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com) is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and has offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Japan.

SIOS, SIOS Technology, SIOS DataKeeper, SIOS Protection Suite, Clusters Your Way, and associated logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of SIOS Technology Corp. and/or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contacts

Winkowski Public Relations, LLC for SIOS
Beth Winkowski, 978-649-7189
bethwinkowski@US.SIOS.com

Storage Switzerland: SQL Server High Availability at Low-cost Cloud prices

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Many organizations are considering the cloud for enhancing SQL Server high availability and business continuity. This is especially true for those small medium-sized businesses that don’t have the budgets to implement redundant data center infrastructure to support high availability for their most critical SQL Server business systems. But the challenge is many application clustering technologies are not capable of integrating with cloud infrastructure. As a result, IT may be left holding the bag by having to separately manage local and remote SQL server high availability clustered application infrastructure.

Click to register for the webinar “HA and DR Must Haves for Cloud Based MS-SQL”
There are no shortage of clustering solutions for MS-SQL. Many of these technologies have been around for years and are proven, however, some of these offerings were not designed to interoperate in a private or hybrid cloud environment. In fact, many of these solutions require the use of local shared storage like SANs, to enable application failover across local hosts. And since cloud storage is not “SAN-like”, it cannot be recognized by these clustering products as an application failover storage target.

To get around this issue, IT administrators need to manage the local failover cluster separately, replicate data to a secondary data center for DR purposes and then migrate VMs to the second site when a failure occurs. Alternatively, they could stand-up a totally redundant “cold stand-by” server infrastructure in their secondary site or rent server CPU resources from a cloud provider. In any of these scenarios, the business is going to incur added costs, added complexity and added business risk.

On the other hand, clustering solutions that can be used in a SAN or SANless environment and support local and remote application failover, regardless of the DR topology, (Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud) give businesses the opportunity to protect their critical systems, simplify operations and avoid overspending on infrastructure.

By taking a software-defined approach to SQL application clustering, IT organizations can use low-cost commodity storage in their primary data center location and replicate their critical data to cost-effective cloud storage resources to lower their DR total cost of ownership. The key, however, is for these solutions to fully automate the application failover process, regardless of the underlying storage infrastructure, to help ensure application uptime and help maintain application service levels.

To learn how to attain enterprise class SQL application availability with low-cost commodity cloud infrastructure, join us for a webinar on October 29th, “HA and DR Must Haves for Cloud Based MS-SQL”.

Click To Register: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/5583/129981

SIOS, Storage Switzerland Webinar: Must-Haves for HA & DR in Cloud

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SAN MATEO, CA – October 22, 2014 – SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com), maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced a joint, live webinar featuring Storage Switzerland President and Founder George Crump and SIOS Technology Director of Field Engineering Tony Tomarchio. George and Tony will discuss the best practices for selecting a method of protecting Microsoft applications and data from downtime in an Amazon Web Services, Azure or other cloud environment.

The live webinar “HA and DR Must-Haves for High Availability and DR Protection in the Cloud” will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 10:00a PST / 1:00p EST.

To register, please visit here: http://storageswiss.com/2014/10/07/ha-and-dr-must-haves/

In this webinar, attendees will learn:

  1. The advantages of a hybrid cloud or full cloud SQL Server environment
  2. The limitations of cloud environments when it comes to providing HA and DR
  3. The difficulty in implementing SQL Server in a “hybrid” fashion
  4. How to overcome these limitations to provide full HA and DR

George Crump, president and founder of Storage Switzerland, has more than 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the U.S., he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS and SAN. Prior to founding Storage Switzerland he was CTO at one the nation’s largest storage integrators where he was in charge of technology testing, integration and product selection.

At SIOS Technology, Tony Tomarchio is responsible for defining and delivering technical pre-sales services, support and best practices to SIOS customers, prospects and partners. Tony has more than a decade of experience providing systems management and high availability solutions to enterprise customers.

About SIOS Technology Corp.

SIOS Technology Corp. makes SAN and #SANLess software solutions that make clusters easy to use and easy to own. An essential part of any cluster solution, SIOS SAN and #SANLess software provides the flexibility to build Clusters Your Way™ to protect your choice of Windows or Linux environment in any configuration (or combination) of physical, virtual and cloud (public, private, and hybrid) without sacrificing performance or availability. The unique SIOS #SANLess clustering solution allows you to configure clusters with local storage, eliminating both the cost and the single-point-of-failure risk of traditional shared (SAN) storage.

Founded in 1999, SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com) is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and has offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Japan.

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SIOS, SIOS Technology, SIOS DataKeeper, SIOS Protection Suite, Clusters Your Way, and associated logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of SIOS Technology Corp. and/or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Contact

Beth Winkowski
Winkowski Public Relations, LLC for SIOS
Phone: 978-649-7189
Email: bethwinkowski@US.SIOS.com