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September 27, 2014: SQLSaturday #318 Orlando

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Register Now for SQLSaturday Orlando

Image -- SQLSaturday Orlando #318SIOS is proud to sponsor SQLSaturday Orlando. 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. Also make sure you don’t miss our lunch session “Clusters Your Way” presented by Microsoft MVP Rodney Landrum to learn more and for your first chance to win $100. You can also enter our “End of Day Raffle” for your chance to win one of two great prizes: a $100 Amex Gift card or a special prize courtesy of SanDisk!

Lunch Session

1:15 — Lunch Session: Clusters Your Way – #SANLess clusters for physical, virtual & cloud environments
Room: TBD
Microsoft MVP Rodney Landrum will discuss how to create #SANLess clusters in environments where traditional shared storage clusters are impractical or impossible. We will also be discussing high performance clusters leveraging SSD and Flash-based PCIe storage for faster SQL application response times – no SAN (or SAN Admin required) – and be touching on HA protection and native Windows Failover Clustering in cloud environments. Attend and win – up to $100.

About SQLSaturday Orlando

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about Microsoft SQL Server. This is Orlando’s 8th SQLSaturday and this year will be better than ever with more than 50 different speakers giving over 50 presentations – all for FREE. (Ok, technically there is a $10 charge to cover your lunch, but it’s also entirely OK to bring your own lunch!)

Register Now for SQLSaturday Orlando
When: Saturday, September 13, 2014
Where: Seminole State College – 100 Weldon Blvd, UP Building, Sanford, FL, 32773

September 27, 2014: SQLSaturday #325 Sãu Paulo

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Register Now for SQLSaturday Sãu Paulo

Image -- SQLSaturday Sãu Paulo #325SIOS is proud to sponsor SQLSaturday Sãu Paulo. Our Brazilian partner Neuwald will be on-site at the SIOS table to answer all your HA and DR questions. Be sure to join Microsoft MVP Rafael Bernardes for his lunch session “Clusters Your Way” for your chance to win. Also be sure to drop off your raffle ticket to enter our “End of Day Raffle” for your second chance to win!

About SQLSaturday Sãu Paulo

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held Sep 27 2014 at UNIP Tatuapé, Rua Antônio Macedo, 505 – Parque São Jorge, Tatuapé – São Paulo – SP, São Paulo, 03087-040, Brazil. Admittance to this event is free, all costs are covered by donations and sponsorships. Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleagues know about the event.

Register Now for SQLSaturday Sãu Paulo
When: Saturday, September 20, 2014
Where: UNIP TatuapéRua Antônio Macedo, 505 – Parque São Jorge, Tatuapé – São Paulo – SP, São Paulo, 03087-040, Brazil

September 20, 2014: SQLSaturday #331 Denver

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Image -- SQLSaturday Denver #331SIOS is proud to sponsor SQLSaturday Denver. 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 or a special prize courtesy of SanDisk too!

About SQLSaturday Denver

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held Sep 20, 2014 at University of Denver – Driscoll Student Center, 2055 East Evans Avenue, Denver, CO 80208. Admittance to this event is free, but there will be small $10.00 fee to cover the cost of lunch. Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleagues know about the event.

Register Now for SQLSaturday Denver
When: Saturday, September 20, 2014
Where: University of Denver – Driscoll Student Center – 2055 East Evans Avenue, Denver, CO 80208

September 20, 2014: SQLSaturday #340 San Diego

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Register Now for SQLSaturday San Diego

Image -- SQLSaturday San Diego #340SIOS is proud to sponsor SQLSaturday San Diego. 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 or a special prize courtesy of SanDisk too!

About SQLSaturday San Diego

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held Sep 20 2014 at 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego, CA 92122. Admittance to this event is free, all costs are covered by donations and sponsorships. Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleagues know about the event.

Register Now for SQLSaturday San Diego
When: Saturday, September 20, 2014
Where: 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego, CA 92122

Tech Target: Mavis Tire goes SANLess with SIOS DataKeeper

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With DBAs rewarded for server performance and SAN specialists rewarded for server capacity, there can be a tug of war. Mavis Tire goes SANLess with SIOS DataKeeper. SIOS Technology releases a survey about high availability and SAN.

An IT department can become a battleground when different job functions are given competing goals. Performance and capacity are a set of competing goals that turn up again and again. These goals can pit SQL Server database administrators (DBAs) against storage area network (SAN) specialists. When pressure comes down from management and both start to scramble, they find they’ve been asked to achieve incompatible goals.

“SAN guys are measured by how much they can say they’ve saved with storage space,” said Geoff Hiten, principal SQL Server consultant for management and consulting firm Intellinet Corp. With SQL Server databases, space is money, and so the incentive is strong to push SAN specialists to optimize for greater capacity. According to Hiten, this means SAN specialists have to “micro-optimize for their areas.” That micro-optimization can reduce overall database performance.

In contrast, DBAs are judged based on the performance they can get out of a server. Since the DBA manages the server in its entirety, having the server optimized for something other than performance or a balance of performance and capacity becomes their responsibility. This leads to contention between the SAN specialist, who has been given the incentive to favor capacity over performance, while the DBA needs performance before capacity to do his job. But favoring capacity at the expense of performance becomes a problem for everyone, not just the DBA, when it slows down the server.

Continue Reading at: http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/feature/Mavis-Tire-goes-SANless-with-SIOS-DataKeeper