Archives for April 2015

May 16, 2015: SIOS is Proud to Sponsor SQLSaturday Rochester

April 6, 2015 by Margaret Hoagland

Register Now for SQLSaturday Rochester
When: Saturday, May 16, 2015
Where: Rochester Institute of Tech., 1 Lomb Memorial Dr. (Golisano Building – #70), Rochester, NY 14623
Cost: $10 to cover the cost of lunch, the event itself is free

SIOS is proud to be the platinum sponsor at SQLSaturday Rochester. Be sure to visit the SIOS table for your chance to learn more about our SAN and #SANLess solutions, enjoy some candy and drop off your raffle ticket for your chance to enter our end of day $100 Amex raffle. There are a number of great tracks so be sure to plan your schedule well in advance (schedule). Also be sure to join our MVP lunch session “Implementing a SANLess SQL Server Cluster in Under an Hour” presented by Microsoft MVP Kendal van Dyke.

Exclusive SIOS MVP Lunch Session: Implementing a SANLess SQL Server Cluster in Under an Hour

When: 12:15p
Where: SQLSaturday Rochester: The SIOS Room

Join SQL Server MVP Kendal Van Dyke as he discusses a case of a company that needed to implement a failover cluster to protect their SQL Server replication distributor and the applications that rely on it during a strict one-hour window – and without causing disruption to ongoing business processes or slowing performance. Drawing from his real world experience, Kendal will review the customer’s need for HA in their SQL environment, the choices that were open to them, and demonstrate how they met these requirements with a SIOS SANLess cluster.

Also, Be sure to bring your “Lunch Session QR Raffle Ticket” for your chance to win!

Network World: New products of the week 04.06.15

April 6, 2015 by Margaret Hoagland

Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Riverbed and APImetrics.

SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software for the Azure Marketplace
Key features: SIOS DataKeeper is the only solution certified to enable the use of Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering in Microsoft Azure cloud. More info.

View the complete slideshow at NetworkWorld.com

April 29, 2015: Live Webinar – Clustering 101: Live Q&A about High Availability in the cloud: Bring Your Questions

April 5, 2015 by Margaret Hoagland

This month, Microsoft Cluster MVP, Dave Bermingham answers your questions about protecting SQL Server and other business critical applications in a cloud (Microsoft Azure, AWS EC2, etc). Want to know how to use a cloud for DR? Wondering how to create a failover cluster in Azure? Bring your questions to this 30 minute live webinar.

You can participate before the event by tweeting your questions to @SIOSTech using #Clustering101 and of course bring your own questions and comments.

Register Now

Live Q&A about High Availability in the cloud: Bring Your Questions
Date: April 29, 2014
Time: 10:00a PDT — 1:00pm EDT

About Clustering 101 Series

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 there of. This series will air monthly, the fourth Wednesday of the month at 10:00a PST / 1:00p EST.

About Dave Bermingham

David 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. David’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. David 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 www.us.sios.com

May 21, 2015: SIOS is Sponsoring the North Texas SQL Server user Group

April 5, 2015 by Margaret Hoagland

SIOS is proud to sponsor the North Texas SQL Server User Group May meeting. If you’re in the area, I highly recommend taking part. SQL Server User Groups are a great places to network and get free expert advice about SQL Server best practices. There is no fee to attend and refreshments will be provided.

Register Now

Date: May 21, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Microsoft, Building LC-1, 7000 North Highway 161, Irving, Texas
Cost: This is a free event – Food and Drinks will also be provided at no cost.

Featured presentation

Why should I upgrade to SQL Server 2014?! — Continued
Presented by: Kal Yella Andre Hass, Microsoft

Still on the fence to upgrade your SQL Servers? Well, we can help! In this session we are going to introduce you to some of the cool features in SQL Server 2014 that helps you Achieve Mission Critical Performance, Maintain Security/Compliance and Optimize Data Infrastructure. The topics include new features like In-Memory OLTP, Buffer Pool Extension and enhancements to existing features like Cardinality Estimator, AlwaysOn, Columnstore Index and Cloud Integration. This session is going to be demo rich and is one session that you don’t want to miss if you are looking to learn more about SQL Server 2014.