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Sys-Con Media: 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 owers.

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

October 18, 2014: SQLSaturday #314 Providence

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Register Now for SQLSaturday Providence Image -- SQLSaturday Providence #315

SIOS is proud to sponsor SQLSaturday Providence. Though we will not be able to make it there in person, be sure to visit the SIOS display to and pick up some literature (and candy) and learn all about our SAN and #SANLess Clustering solutions. Be sure to  enter our “End of Day Raffle” for your chance to win $100 and a special prize courtesy of SanDisk too!

About SQLSaturday Providence

SQLSaturday is a free training event for IT professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server and more. This event will be held October 18, 2014 at New England Technical Institute (NEIT), 1408 Division Road, East Greenwich, RI 02818. Admittance is free but there is a small lunch fee of $10. Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleagues know about the event.

Register Now for SQLSaturday Providence
When: Saturday, October 18, 2014
Where: New England Technical Institute (NEIT) – 1408 Division Road, East Greenwich, RI 02818

October 4, 2014: SQLSaturday #315 Pittsburgh

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Register Now for SQLSaturday Pittsburgh

Image -- SQLSaturday Pittsburgh #315SIOS is proud to sponsor SQLSaturday Pittsburgh. Though we will not be able to make it there in person, be sure to visit the SIOS display to and pick up some literature (and candy) and learn all about our SAN and #SANLess Clustering solutions. Be sure to  enter our “End of Day Raffle” for your chance to win $100 and a special prize courtesy of SanDisk too!

About SQLSaturday Pittsburgh

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held Oct 4, 2014 at the Pittsburgh Technical Institute – 1111 McKee Road, Oakdale, PA 15071. Admittance to this event is free, but there is a small $10.00 fee to cover the cost of lunch – not pizza! Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleagues know about the event.

Register Now for SQLSaturday Pittsburgh
When: Saturday, September 13, 2014
Where: Pittsburgh Technical Institute – 1111 McKee Road, Oakdale, PA, 15071

Computer Technology Review: Survey Says Providing High Availability and Disaster Protection for SQL Server Poses Challenges for Enterprise Data Centers

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In many enterprise data centers, SQL Server is playing an increasingly important role in running core business operations, including customer service, order processing, payroll, accounting, and many more. For these organizations tolerance for SQL downtime and data loss is approaching zero. However, according to a recent survey by SIOS Technology Corp., providing the high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) needed to protect SQL Server from downtime presents a variety of challenges, including the rising cost of SQL licensing (71 percent), the cost of SAN storage (68 percent), and SAN configuration limitations (69 percent).

These challenges will only worsen as more applications are moved from physical server environments to virtual, cloud and hybrid cloud environments, where traditional SAN-based clusters are impractical. A simple change, such as adding SANless clustering software to a traditional cluster configuration can provide the flexibility and cost-saving features needed to address HA and DR challenges today’s SQL Server environments.

Continue reading at: Computer Technology Review