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Video: The SIOS Clustering Advantage

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Video: The SIOS Clustering Advantage

Each year, your task is likely to provide higher levels of service using existing infrastructure and a smaller IT budget. Tolerance for downtime or data loss is gone.  Applications have to be up 24/7 and you need to be protected whether that’s a server outage, a networking outage, application outage, or even entire data center loss. The expectation is that the amount of downtime and the amount of data loss converges on “0”.

IT professionals have more options than ever on how you’re going to support your end users whether that’s deployment of physical servers, virtual servers, or even cloud technologies. Choosing a solution comes down to understanding business objectives, technical requirements, and budget limitations as well as needing to understand how you’re going to protect the environment to ensure it is always available and you don’t have any downtime or any data loss.

This is typically done by implementing a traditional SAN based cluster involving two or more servers connected into some type of shared storage. If there is an issue, it will fail the application over and bring everything back online. SIOS software supports this and makes it easy to set up and manage. While a SAN based cluster is great for local high availability, the SAN generally represents high cost, complexity, potential failure in your clustering architecture, and it also doesn’t help you solve the disaster recovery problem.

SIOS software allows you to build out your cluster using your choice of hardware but now leveraging local storage. SIOS provides real-time block level data replication that’s fully cluster aware and integrated allowing you to leverage that very fast local storage with your cluster configuration. Also, adopting a SANLess cluster can reduce the overall cost of the solution by eliminating the SAN. As a result, you’ve not only eliminated the cost of the SAN hardware but also SAN infrastructure and administrative costs that come along with your SAN license savings. In addition, you will be cutting out that single point of failure in your clustering architecture so it won’t take down the entire environment. You can also eliminate data loss because our real-time block level data replication technology keeps the local storage in sync. Provided with the software there is also user friendly wizard-based user interfaces.

To sum things up, SIOS gives you the flexibility to protect your mission-critical applications and data in physical, virtual, or cloud environments.  Learn more about our high availability solutions.

Learn how SIOS clustering software makes protecting applications easy.

Video: The SIOS Clustering Advantage

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The SIOS Clustering Advantage

The SIOS Clustering Advantage

Learn how SIOS clustering software makes protecting applications easy.

Each year, your task is likely to provide higher levels of service using existing infrastructure and a smaller IT budget. Tolerance for downtime or data loss is gone.  Applications have to be up 24/7 and you need to be protected whether that’s a server outage, a networking outage, application outage, or even entire data center loss. The expectation is that the amount of downtime and the amount of data loss converges on “0”.

IT professionals have more options than ever on how you’re going to support your end users whether that’s deployment of physical servers, virtual servers, or even cloud technologies. Choosing a solution comes down to understanding business objectives, technical requirements, and budget limitations as well as needing to understand how you’re going to protect the environment to ensure it is always available and you don’t have any downtime or any data loss.

This is typically done by implementing a traditional SAN based cluster involving two or more servers connected into some type of shared storage. If there is an issue, it will fail the application over and bring everything back online. SIOS software supports this and makes it easy to set up and manage. While a SAN based cluster is great for local high availability, the SAN generally represents high cost, complexity, potential failure in your clustering architecture, and it also doesn’t help you solve the disaster recovery problem.

SIOS software allows you to build out your cluster using your choice of hardware but now leveraging local storage. SIOS provides real-time block level data replication that’s fully cluster aware and integrated allowing you to leverage that very fast local storage with your cluster configuration. Also, adopting a SANLess cluster can reduce the overall cost of the solution by eliminating the SAN. As a result, you’ve not only eliminated the cost of the SAN hardware but also SAN infrastructure and administrative costs that come along with your SAN license savings. In addition, you will be cutting out that single point of failure in your clustering architecture so it won’t take down the entire environment. You can also eliminate data loss because our real-time block level data replication technology keeps the local storage in sync. Provided with the software there is also user friendly wizard-based user interfaces.

To sum things up, SIOS gives you the flexibility to protect your mission-critical applications and data in physical, virtual, or cloud environments.  Learn more about our high availability solutions.

White Paper: Do You Really Need A SAN-Based Cluster?

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Do You Really Need A SAN-Based Cluster

White Paper: Do You Really Need A SAN-Based Cluster?

Ten Essential Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cluster Solution

White Paper: Do You Really Need A SAN-Based Cluster?
White Paper: Do You Really Need A SAN-Based Cluster?

Learn how to protect your critical applications and data without adding unnecessary cost and risk. Companies are finding new ways to combine physical, virtual, and cloud environments to control costs and stay agile in today’s demanding marketplace.

Traditional clusters based on shared storage SANs are no longer the de facto choice for protecting business critical applications in these new environments.

Download White Paper: Do You Really Need A SAN-Based Cluster?

SIOS DataKeeper Adds High Availability Protection To Cluster

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Healthcare Platform Eliminated Need For Shared Storage with SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition

Case Study: Leading Healthcare Provider — SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition

A leading provider of enterprise platforms for the home healthcare provider market decided to add SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition as a high availability (HA) solution to minimize the risk of downtime. It had relied on its SQL Server databases to provide fast, efficient service to its end users.

Many of the company’s important applications rely on SQL Server running on a physical server in their on-premises data center. They wanted to protect their SQL Server Replication Distributor – a central database required for managing and updating all SQL databases.

The company’s best solution was to use Windows Server Failover Clustering to create a two node cluster using their existing server hardware, which was already equipped with solid state disk storage. By adding SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software to their cluster, they eliminated the need for shared storage. SIOS software uses fast block level replication to synchronize local storage in both of the cluster nodes, creating a storage environment that appears to WSFC as a SAN. They connected the nodes directly using crossover cables and 10Gig NICs to eliminate the cost of a network switch and ensure the fastest possible replication for real time synchronization of the cluster nodes.

Mavis Discount Tire Enjoys High Availability Cluster Protection With SIOS

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SIOS DataKeeper Delivers High Availability Cluster Protection For Business Critical SQL Server to Mavis Discount Tire

Case Study: Mavis Discount Tire — SIOS DataKeeper Clusters

Leading regional tire retailer Mavis Discount Tire uses SIOS DataKeeper to enable cost-effective, high performance and high availability cluster protection for business critical SQL Server.

The company needed a way to provide high availability (HA) protection for its SQL Server applications and databases that would not impede performance. They were also concerned about the performance impact that SAN storage could have had on the highly transactional SQL Server databases.

The Mavis Discount Tire IT department chose SIOS SANless software to provide high availability cluster protection and disaster recovery (DR) protection without the need for a SAN. Edward Schwartz, CIO, Mavis Discount Tire said that they used WSFC to create two node clusters for their SQL environments in the same way a traditional cluster is created. He added, “we simply added SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software to enable us to use local storage in a #SANLess configuration.” The SIOS software uses performance-optimized host-based replication to synchronize local storage on the primary and standby nodes in the cluster, creating storage that appears to the WSFC as a SAN.

Mavis Discount Tire has been using SIOS #SANLess clusters to protect its business critical SQL applications for more than four years. The SIOS software provides high availability cluster protection without slowing performance. By using SANless clusters, Mavis IT staff also eliminated the single point of failure risk of a shared storage cluster. “The SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software is a good technology for a company that is growing rapidly. It is easy to use and eliminates the need to buy unnecessary SAN hardware or redundant switches,” said Schwartz.