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Dave Bermingham Offers High Availability and Clustering Resources for Windows Server vNext from his Latest Clustering 101 Webcast

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In the latest Clustering 101 webinar, Cluster MVP Dave Bermingham gave an overview of three very compelling new features coming in Microsoft next release of Windows Server, slated to release sometime in 2016. Rolling cluster OS upgrades, Storage Replica and Cloud Witness were all introduced along with their features and use cases. This webinar was recorded and will be available soon for on demand viewing. For additional information on each of these features please see the following resources.

Resources

Storage Replica
Storage Replica Guide Released for Windows Server Technical Preview | Technet: The Storage Team Blog — Oct 7, 2014
Stretching Failover Clusters and Using Storage Replica for Disaster Recovery in the Next Release of Windows Server | Channel 9 – MSDN — Oct 19, 2014

Cloud Witness
Introducing Cloud Witness | MSDN Blog — Nov 13, 2014

Rolling Cluster OS Upgrades
Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade in Windows Server Technical Preview | Technet — October 28

Additional Clustering Resources
ClusteringForMereMortals.com — David Bermingham’s Personal Clustering Blog
Clustering 101: Configuring a Windows Cluster Quorum — On Demand Clustering 101 Webinar
SIOS On Demand Webinar Library — A full catalog of SIOS’ high availability and clustering-focused webcasts

April 13, 2015: SIOS is Sponsoring SQL Server User Group Atlanta — Atlanta MDF

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SIOS is proud to sponsor the Atlanta SQL Server User Group’s April meeting. If you’re in the area, I highly recommend checking out this month’s session “Dr. DMVs Troubleshooting Toolkit” presented by SQL Server MVP, Glenn Berry.

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Location: Microsoft – 1125 Sanctuary Pkwy. Suite 300 Alpharetta, GA 30009
Date: April 13, 2014
Time: 6:30 – 9:00 PM Eastern

Session Abstract

Dr DMVs Troubleshooting Toolkit

Dynamic Management Views and functions allow you to easily see exactly what is happening inside your SQL Server instances and databases with a high level of detail. You can discover your top wait types, most CPU intensive stored procedures, find missing indexes, and identify unused indexes, to name just a few examples. This session presents, demonstrates and explains numerous DMV queries that you can quickly and easily use to detect and diagnose configuration and performance issues in your SQL Server instances and databases.

About Glenn Berry

Glenn works as a Principal Consultant at SQLskills in Parker, CO. He has been a SQL Server MVP since 2007. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at University College – University of Denver, where has been teaching since 2000. He has completed the Master Teacher Program at Denver University – University College. He is the author of the book SQL Server Hardware. Glenn blogs regularly at http://sqlserverperformance.wordpress.com. He is active on Twitter as @GlennAlanBerry.

 

Press Release: SIOS Clustering 101 Webinar Series Will Feature What you Need to Know about Windows Server 10 Failover Clustering

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SAN MATEO, CA – March 19, 2015 – SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com), maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced that the next session in its Clustering 101 webinar series featuring Microsoft Clustering MVP and SIOS Senior Technical Evangelist Dave Bermingham will preview important insights into Windows Server 10 Failover Clustering.

Titled “Windows 10 Technical Preview – What You Need To Know About Windows Server 10 Failover Clustering,” this webinar will be held on Wednesday, March 25 at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET. To register, please visit: http://us.sios.com/2015-03-clustering101

In this month’s Clustering 101 webinar, Dave will give a preview of new Windows 10 features, including the introduction of cloud witness, rolling upgrades, storage replica, VM compute resiliency, improved diagnostics and more. Join Dave Bermingham for the must see clustering features of Windows 10.

Dave Bermingham is recognized within the technology community as a high availability expert and has been honored by his peers by being elected to be a Microsoft MVP in clustering since 2010. Dave’s work as director, technical evangelist at SIOS Technology Corp. has him focused on Microsoft high availability and disaster recovery solutions as well as providing hands on support, training and professional services for cluster implementations. Dave holds numerous technical certifications and draws from more than twenty years of experience in IT, including work in the finance, healthcare and education fields, to help organizations design solutions to meet their high availability and disaster recovery needs. Learn more at http://us.sios.com

About Clustering 101
Clustering 101 is a webinar series hosted by Microsoft MVP Dave Bermingham focused on addressing the numerous facets of clustering for high availability, data replication and any combination thereof. This series will air monthly, the fourth Wednesday of the month at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET. Check our events page for details: http://us.sios.com/about/news-events/

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.

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Contact

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

Data Center Post: Epicure Selections Achieves High Availability and Disaster Recovery Protection for Critical SQL Server Applications with SIOS Sanless Clustering Software

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Epicure Selections is using SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software to easily and cost-efficiently provide HA and DR protection for its business-critical SQL Server applications without the complexity of building out a remote DR site or purchasing costly SQL Server Enterprise Edition licenses. SANLess Clustering

Epicure, Canada’s leading direct sales company, sells healthy, easy-to-prepare food products through a network of over 16,000 consultants.

Epicure relies on two websites for its critical business operations. Its public website provides product, company, and consultant enrolment information to customers and people interested in becoming a consultant. The internal website provides consultants with important product information and enables them to place orders.

The company uses two instances of SQL Server Standard Edition—one for each website running on a single server. “Our websites are vital to our business,” said Russell Born, Senior Network Infrastructure Administrator at Epicure.

As the company grew and expanded its products and services, the Epicure IT department needed to update and protect its business-critical websites from downtime. It decided to move both websites from a third-party hosted facility to its on-premises data center and Amazon Web Services. “The business is growing and we needed to ensure our website delivers an excellent user experience for our customers and consultants,” said Born.

As part of this update, Epicure wanted an efficient, cost-effective way to provide high availability and disaster protection for both websites while continuing to run them on two instances of SQL Server Standard Edition. “We didn’t want the added expense of moving to SQL Server Enterprise Edition if we could provide HA and DR with Standard Edition,” Born said.

Using SIOS SANLess clustering software, Epicure IT staff created a two-node cluster in an active-passive failover configuration that enables each SQL instance to failover independently. One cluster node is in the on-premises data center and the second node is in an instance of the AWS EC2 cloud. Epicure IT staff created the SIOS SANLess clusters and configured them using the software’s intuitive graphical user interface.

The SIOS software provides Epicure with an easy, cost-efficient way to provide HA and DR protection for its business-critical SQL Server applications without the complexity of building out a remote DR site or purchasing costly SQL Server Enterprise Edition licenses. “The SIOS software has allowed us to create a hybrid solution providing additional cost savings of running on-premises with the reliability and flexibility of running in the cloud,” said Born. “Knowing that a website outage will result in an automatic failover allows our IT Team to focus their attention on other priorities to strengthen our business.”

About the Author:

Jerry Melnick
COO, SIOS Technology Corp.

Jerry Melnick (jmelnick@us.sios.com) is responsible for defining corporate strategy and operations at SIOS Technology Corp., maker of SIOS SAN and #SANLess cluster software. He more than 25 years of experience in the enterprise and high availability software industries. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Beloit College with graduate work in Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Boston University.

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UPDATE: April 8, 2015: SIOS Sponsors San Francisco SQL Server User Group

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SIOS is proud to sponsor the San Francisco SQL Server User Group’s April meeting. If you’re in the area, I highly recommend joining month’s speaker Joel Champagne. He will be presenting, “Pretty Big Data in the Real World.”

Register Now

Date: April 8, 2014
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Location:

Microsoft Office
Bank of America Building
555 California Street, 3rd floor
San Francisco, CA

Cost: This is a free event – Food and Drinks will also be provided at no cost.

Note: This is the Bank of America building. If you have RSVP’d, the guard will give you access to the 3rd floor. In order to be approved by Microsoft security, you must RSVP with your first and last name, and bring photo ID with you.