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SIOS Technology Earns AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Status to Help Management of Microsoft-based Applications on AWS

July 21, 2019 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

SIOS Technology Earns AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Status to Help Management of Microsoft-based Applications on AWS

Competency reaffirms SIOS’ deep domain expertise enabling customers to achieve Microsoft Workloads migration and management goals on AWS; Visit SIOS at AWS Global Summit in NYC

AWS Summit: SIOS Technology Corp. a company that provides IT Resilience through intelligent application availability, announced at AWS Global Summit in New York it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Workloads Competency status within the AWS Partner Network (APN). This designation recognizes that SIOS provides proven technology and deep expertise in helping customers in the migration, deployment and management of Microsoft-based applications on AWS, specifically with workloads based on Microsoft SQL Server.

Achieving the AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency differentiates SIOS as an AWS Partner Network member that provides specialized demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success with specific focus on tools to migrate workloads with minimum operational impact. To receive the designation, APN Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS.

“SIOS is proud to achieve AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency status for high availability solutions,” said Jerry Melnick, President and CEO, SIOS Technology. “This underscores our proven expertise deploying mission-critical Microsoft applications and workloads on AWS, by leveraging the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation that AWS provides.”

AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

The SIOS Exhibit at AWS Global Summit in NYC

To simplify and accelerate the deployment of high availability clusters in the cloud, SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software is available on AWS Marketplace and can be deployed automatically using an AWS QuickStart. The AWS Quick Start deployment is ideal for organizations making their first venture into high availability clusters in the cloud. Today at AWS Global Summit in NYC, SIOS is showcasing how SIOS Datakeeper delivers the same high availability (HA) capabilities that are available through a Windows Server Failover Cluster in the cloud and configurable on AWS quickly and easily – saving months of effort, improving operational flexibility and drastically lowering costs to set up and maintain.

SIOS Technology Corp. makes software products that provide the insights and guidance that IT managers need to manage and protect business-critical applications in large, complex data centers. SIOS SAN and SANLess software is an essential part of any cluster solution that 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.

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New Amazon Web Services Competency For ISVs Migrating Microsoft Workloads

July 21, 2019 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

New AWS Competency For ISVs Migrating Microsoft Workloads

A new Amazon Web Services competency will validate independent software vendors’ skills and experience in migrating customers’ Microsoft workloads to AWS.

AWS technology partners can earn the AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency competency in three Microsoft workloads technology categories – migration, operational optimization, and data, analytics and machine learning (ML).

The new track complements the long-standing AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency track for AWS Partner Network (APN)consulting partners in productivity, database and application modernization.

AWS unveiled the new competency today in conjunction with its AWS Summit New York.

More than 57 percent of Windows workloads in the public cloud run on AWS – almost two times more than the closest cloud provider, Sandy Carter, vice president of AWS Windows and enterprise workloads, wrote in a blog post today, citing a 2017 statistic from research firm IDC.

Carter said customers often ask her why they should run their Windows workloads on AWS.

“I love to quote our CEO, Andy Jassy, who says, ‘There is no compression algorithm for experience,’” she said. “Customers have been running Windows workloads on Amazon Web Services for over a decade. From that experience, we are able to optimize our platform and innovate on behalf of customers. The number of AWS enterprise customers using Amazon EC2 for Windows Server has grown 5X since 2015.”

AWS has more than 14,000 active Windows Server and SQL Server partners, according to Carter.

To achieve the new competency, AWS technology partners must undergo a technical validation by AWS Solutions Architects. The competency debuted with 13 launch partners.

“It’s a great way for partners to differentiate, but it’s also in a high-demand area,” Kelly Hartman, AWS’ global head of the APN, told CRN. “And it’s the case where a lot of our partners, both technology and consulting, had that experience before, and now they’re able to convert that experience to AWS.”

Migration partners’ technologies provide pre-migration assessment and planning, or automate and manage the migration of Microsoft Workloads. Launch partners are Cloudamize, CloudChomp, CloudBasic, Information Builders, Movere, RiverMeadow Software and Turbonomic.

Partners earning the competency in the operational optimization category provide technologies that optimize and automate Microsoft Workloads on AWS in the areas of security, availability and manageability. CloudBasic, CloudCheckr, Datadog, FuseForward, Movere, SentryOne, SIOS Technology and Turbonomic already have earned the status.

CloudBasic, DataSunrise and Information Builders are the launch partners for the competency’s data, analytics and ML category, which validates independent software vendors whose technologies prepare, transform, analyze and govern data in Microsoft SQL Server for the purpose of data analytics and ML on AWS.

Article reproduced from www.crn.com

Running highly available Microsoft workloads in AWS

July 19, 2019 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

Running Highly Available Microsoft Workloads In AWS

I remember when Storage Area Networks (SAN) were introduced in the late 1990s as a way to provide very fast access to storage from all connected servers. SANs became the storage technology to deliver clustered server solutions for high availability. It enabled a common shared database to be accessed by a failover server in the event a primary server failed.

SANs, although fast, were expensive and difficult to set up and manage. Other solutions that used high-speed efficient replication technology to synchronize data between two servers became a popular lower-cost alternative to provide high availability.

The Challenge

Fast forward 20 years, SANs are simpler and less expensive to set up and manage and are a very common solution today when failover from one server to another is required to maintain application availability Service Level Agreements (SLA). Now many companies are looking to move workloads to the cloud to provide lower cost and higher availability. Are you planning to move a workload to the cloud?

There is one thing many people don’t realize until they do the research. A shared storage SAN infrastructure is not available in the cloud. Cloud providers talk availability of 99.9% for the infrastructure, power, cooling, storage, network, compute – but not a word on application availability!

If you require highly available applications and access to data in the cloud, you need to add a software-based high availability solution to your technology stack.

The Solution

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recognizes that additional solutions for high availability are required and has a special team focused on Microsoft workloads running in AWS. On July 11, AWS awarded SIOS their Microsoft Workloads Competency status within the AWS Partner Network. This differentiates SIOS as a partner that provides demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success with specific tools to monitor and recover applications and data with minimum operational impact, providing high availability for Microsoft workloads, and delivering solutions seamlessly on AWS.

Take a few minutes to review the SIOS solution and AWS Quickstart on the AWS Marketplace.

Here’s who’s talking about SIOS and its new AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency status:

IT Toolbox: https://it.toolbox.com/blogs/shrutiumathe/sios-technology-earns-aws-microsoft-workloads-competency-status-to-help-management-of-microsoft-based-applications-on-aws-071219

TFIR: https://www.tfir.io/2019/07/11/sios-technology-achieves-aws-microsoft-workloads-competency-status/

CRN:|https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/new-aws-competency-for-isvs-migrating-microsoft-workloads

CloudCow: https://cloudcow.com/content/best-options-for-protecting-sql-server-in-the-aws-elastic-compute-cloud/#.XS3itehKgWX

SIOS Technology Continues Expansion of Management Team Adding Kevin Williams as Executive Advisor & SVP, Engineering

July 16, 2019 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

SIOS Technology Continues Expansion of Management Team Adding Kevin Williams as Executive Advisor & SVP, Engineering

Cassius Rhue promoted to VP, Customer Experience to drive customer success

SAN MATEO, CA – May 7, 2019 – SIOS Technology Corp., the industry pioneer in providing IT Resilience through intelligent application availability, today announced the addition of Kevin Williams to the newly created position of Executive Advisor & SVP, Engineering and the promotion of Cassius Rhue to VP, Customer Experience. The announcement comes on the heels of the appointment of Michael Bilancieri as VP, Product as the company continues to build a world-class, global organization to guide the growth of SIOS’ high availability clustering software for critical applications like SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP operating in cloud, hybrid cloud or datacenter.

Kevin Williams has joined SIOS in the role of Executive Advisor & SVP, Engineering, reporting to President and CEO Jerry Melnick. He will head up the product development organization with a focus on advancing SIOS’ high availability clustering software with industry-leading innovations for the enterprise. Previously, Kevin was President of Avtec, Inc., a leading provider of mission-critical communication systems. Kevin joined Avtec in 2010 as Director of Engineering, and was promoted multiple times as the company experienced seven years of profitable growth prior to being acquired by Motorola Solutions in March 2019. Earlier in his career, Kevin has held technical leadership positions within software engineering organizations in the United States, Germany, and England.

Cassius Rhue, formerly SIOS’ Director, Engineering, will head up the Customer Experience team as VP, Customer Experience also reporting to Jerry Melnick. Cassius’ organization will serve as the bridge between customers, products and services. His responsibilities span engineering level pre-sales support, professional services, training and post-sales support.

“These are important and high-impact additions to the executive team as we enter the next phase of our growth,” said Jerry Melnick, president and CEO, SIOS Technology. “As executive advisor and senior vice president of engineering, Kevin will be integral to helping build out our clustering software to meet the rapidly expanding enterprise needs for high availability as our customers move their critical applications to the cloud. He brings extensive management, technical and organizational leadership to SIOS and has an excellent track record of building teams and technologies that deliver measurable value.”

“With 19+ years of experience at SIOS and a demonstrated focus on the customer, Cassius brings significant skills to build a broad program to satisfy our customers,” added Melnick. “With a strategy of ‘extreme customer care’ focused on their solution needs and success, we’re investing in leadership to build a global, scalable organization. Cassius is well suited to achieve these objectives given his deep experience with our products, the challenges customers face and his commitment and passion for helping our customers.”

Supporting References

Download a photo of Kevin Williams: http://bit.ly/2JduYCX

Download a photo of Cassius Rhue: http://bit.ly/2VJJU2y

About SIOS Technology Corp.
SIOS Technology Corp. makes software products that provide the insights and guidance that IT managers need to manage and protect business-critical applications in large, complex data centers. SIOS SAN and SANLess software is an essential part of any cluster solution that 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. Founded in 1999, SIOS Technology Corp. (https://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, SIOS PERC Dashboard, 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.

Media Contact:

Beth Winkowski
Winkowski Public Relations, LLC for SIOS
978-649-7189
bethwinkowski@US.SIOS.com

SIOS Technology Achieves AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Status

July 14, 2019 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

SIOS Technology Achieves AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Status

Competency reaffirms SIOS’ deep domain expertise enabling customers to achieve Microsoft Workloads migration and management goals on AWS; Visit SIOS at AWS Global Summit in NYC

NEW YORK, NY – July 11, 2019 – SIOS Technology Corp., an industry pioneer in providing IT Resilience through intelligent application availability, today announced at AWS Global Summit in New York it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Workloads Competency status within the AWS Partner Network (APN). This designation recognizes that SIOS provides proven technology and deep expertise in helping customers in the migration, deployment and management of Microsoft-based applications on AWS, specifically with workloads based on Microsoft SQL Server.

Achieving the AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency differentiates SIOS as an AWS Partner Network member that provides specialized demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success with specific focus on tools to migrate workloads with minimum operational impact. To receive the designation, APN Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS.

“SIOS is proud to achieve AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency status for high availability solutions,” said Jerry Melnick, president and CEO, SIOS Technology. “This underscores our proven expertise deploying mission-critical Microsoft applications and workloads on AWS, by leveraging the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation that AWS provides.”

The SIOS Exhibit at AWS Global Summit in NYC

To simplify and accelerate the deployment of high availability clusters in the cloud, SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software is available on AWS Marketplace and can be deployed automatically using an AWS QuickStart. The AWS Quick Start deployment is ideal for organizations making their first venture into high availability clusters in the cloud. Today at AWS Global Summit in NYC, SIOS is showcasing how SIOS Datakeeper delivers the same high availability (HA) capabilities that are available through a Windows Server Failover Cluster in the cloud and configurable on AWS quickly and easily – saving months of effort, improving operational flexibility and drastically lowering costs to set up and maintain.

About SIOS Technology Corp.

Media Contact:

Beth Winkowski
Winkowski Public Relations, LLC for SIOS
978-649-7189
bethwinkowski@US.SIOS.com