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January 17, 2015: SQLSaturday Nashville

January 8, 2015 by Margaret Hoagland Leave a Comment

SIOS is proud to sponsor SQLSaturday Nashville. Though we will not be there in person, be sure to visit the SIOS Remote Sponsor Table and chat HA and DR with SIOS MVP and Microsoft MVP Denny Cherry, enjoy some free 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!

There are a number of great tracks so be sure to plan your schedule well in advance (schedule). Also be sure to check our lunch session “Clusters Your Way.™

Lunch Session

12:00 — Lunch Session: Clusters Your Way – #SANLess clusters for physical, virtual & cloud environments
Room: SIOS Sound Stage
Microsoft MVP Denny Cherry 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 Nashville

Please join the Nashville SQL Server community for their largest and most comprehensive SQL Server event of the year. SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those learning about SQL Server. This is a sponsor-funded and volunteer-supported free community event where you can network with other professionals and share opportunities and expertise with fellow members of the SQL Server community.

Speakers include several well-known professionals, SQL Server Masters, trainers, mentors, conference presenters and book authors from all over the world, the US, and our local community. These are many of the same industry leaders who present many of the same sessions at the PASS Global Summit and other international conferences. Lunch, snacks and raffle prizes are included for registered attendees.

Registration begins at 7:30. Sessions run throughout the day from 8:00 to 5:00.

Admittance to this event is free, but there is a small $10 fee to help cover the cost of lunch – not pizza . Please register soon as seating is limited, and invite friends and colleagues to join us. Please check this site as we get closer to the event for session scheduling and other announcements.

Register Now for SQLSaturday Nashville
When: Saturday, January 17, 2015
Where: Lipscomb University – One University Park Drive, Nashville, TN 37204

Live Webinar: Flexible HA and DR for Virtual Server and Cloud Environments

December 9, 2014 by Margaret Hoagland Leave a Comment

Moving business critical applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server, to virtual server and cloud environments, requires high availability and a solid disaster protection plan. The question often asked — will implementing that protection eliminate the cost savings and configuration flexibility you gain in these environments?

Register now and join cloud clustering expert Tony Tomarchio and Storage Swiss founder George Crump on Thursday 12/18 at 10:00am PST for your opportunity to better understand the confusing array of availability and redundancy features offered in Windows Server Failover Clustering, SQL Server, and leading cloud and virtual server software vendors. Together they will show you how to best protect SQL Server and other Windows applications from downtime and disasters, all the while ensuring configuration flexibility and infrastructure efficiency.

Flexible HA and DR for Virtual Server and Cloud Environments

Thursday, December 18, 2014
10:00a PST / 1:00p EST
Hosted by: Storage Switzerland
Presented by: Tony Tomarchio and George Crump

Space is limited to be sure to register now.

Live Webinar: High Availability for Mission Critical Applications in Amazon EC2

November 13, 2014 by Margaret Hoagland Leave a Comment

Next week our cloud clustering expert Tony Tomarchio will be joining Vikram Garlapati, Amazon Web Services solutions architect, for a 45 minute dive into providing high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) protection in the cloud. They will be discussing ways to leverage #SANLess clusters to enable HA/DR for SQL, SAP, File Servers, and other enterprise-class applications running in Amazon EC2.

You’ll also learn a bit about Spirent, an enterprise company who recently took the leap into the Amazon cloud and how they are currently using #SANLess Clusters to protect their business critical applications in Amazon EC2.

High Availability for Mission Critical Applications

Wednesday, November 19, 2014
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST
Register Now — Space is Limited

About the Speakers

Tony Tomarchio
Director of Field Engineering, SIOS Technology

As SIOS’ Director of Field Engineering, Tony is responsible for defining and delivering technical pre-sales services, support and best practices to SIOS customers, prospects and partners. Tony has more than a decade of experience providing systems management and high availability solutions to enterprise customers. Prior to joining SIOS, Tony served as the Global Sales Engineering lead for the Oracle systems management practice. Tony joined Oracle through the acquisitions of Sun Microsystems and Aduva, Inc., where he served as the lead Sales Engineer / Technical Account Manager and played a critical role in product adoption and evolution.

Vikram Garlapati
Manager Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Vikram has over seventeen years of professional software development experience, focusing in database systems, web and mobile applications. Vikram has worked with AWS for the past three years as a solution architect and manager supporting consulting partner ecosystem. Vikram has architected and built large data warehouses and large data intensive applications. Currently, Vikram is managing a global team of solution architects supporting consulting partners located in North American, India and LATAM regions.

Live Webinar: SQL Clustering 102: Highly Available SQL Deployments in Azure IaaS – What You Need to Know

November 9, 2014 by Margaret Hoagland Leave a Comment

Microsoft MVP David Bermingham will lay the foundation for deploying highly available SQL Server instances in the Windows Azure IaaS Cloud in his second “SQL Clustering 101” webinar series. From basic nomenclature to the must-haves and gotcha’s for enabling SQL Server High Availability in Azure, you will have the checklist for moving your business-critical applications to the cloud. If you are considering Windows Azure for your next SQL Server deployment, you won’t want to miss this webinar.

Register Now

Date: December 9, 2014
Time: 10:00a PST — 1:00pm 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

November 4, 2014: SQL Karaoke 2014

October 27, 2014 by Margaret Hoagland Leave a Comment

SQL Karaoke is all about the music, drinks and mingling with fellow SQL-ites from all over the world. If you have the guts to take the stage… SIOS will make sure you get your very own “My Way” bottle-opener T-shirt.

Everyone is welcome to attend the SQL Karaoke party. Tickets are required for entry and a wristband will be required for free drinks. Wristbands are limited.

Please register soon as we are getting close to the max capacity of the venue. Be sure to bring your eventbrite ticket labeled “SQL Karaoke Wristband for free drinks” OR “SQL Karaoke Entry to the cash bar” to enter.

Wristbands must be picked up at the party before 11:00pm.

When:
November 4th
9:30 PM to 2:00 AM

Where:
Cow Girls Inc.
421 1st Ave S
Seattle, WA 98104

Register for SQL Karaoke Now

About the Organizer

Denny Cherry
– The unofficial Party Planner of PASS

Denny Cherry is the owner and principal consultant for Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting and has over a decade of experience working with platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server, Hyper-V, vSphere and Enterprise Storage solutions. Denny’s areas of technical expertise include system architecture, performance tuning, security, replication and troubleshooting. Denny currently holds several of the Microsoft Certifications related to SQL Server for versions 2000 through 2008 including the Microsoft Certified Master as well as being a Microsoft MVP for several years. Denny has written several books and dozens of technical articles on SQL Server management and how SQL Server integrates with various other technologies.