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Join us at our PASS The Bacon Session at PASS Summit 2014 — at the Washington State Convention Center — for an interactive panel discussion with four Microsoft experts about a variety of real-world strategies for achieving cost-efficient high performance and high availability in SQL Server environments.

Topics include:

• Leveraging flash storage in database scenarios for more than performance.
• Comparing and contrasting flash storage options in the market for in-server, caching and array based solutions.
• Using flash storage with existing products effectively
• Creating a #SANLess cluster for high performance and high availability in a cost-saving solution.

Thursday, November 6, 2014
– 6:45am to 8:00am PDT
– @ PASS Summit 2014 — Washington State Convention Center
– Max Capacity: 100 People

Space is limited, get on the waitlist today!

PASS The Bacon Panelists

Denny Cherry, Microsoft MVP

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 has an impressive set of credentials including being a current Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Award winner, and he has been since 2008. Denny also holds the VMware vExpert award from VMware and has held the EMC Elect award from EMC. Denny holds certifications for SQL Server from the MCDBA for SQL Server 2000 up through the Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server 2008. Additionally Denny is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer.

Geoff Hiten, Microsoft MVP

Microsoft MVP Geoff Hiten is a SQL Server consultant.  Geoff began working with SQL Server in 1992 with version 4.2 and has used every version since then.  He specializes in high-availability and high-performance SQL systems. Geoff is heavily involved in the Microsoft SQL Server Community and was initially awarded MVP status in 2004.  Geoff was appointed in 2011 to fill an interim Director position at the National PASS organization.   Geoff currently works with the AtlantaMDF and SQLSaturday Atlanta organizing committee.

Joey D’Antoni, Microsoft MVP

Joey D’Antoni, Microsoft SQL Server MVP, is an Architect with over a decade of experience working in both Fortune 500 and smaller firms. He is currently Solutions Architect for SQL Server and Big Data for Anexinet in Blue Bell, PA. He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from Louisiana Tech University and an MBA from North Carolina State University.

Rob Volk, Microsoft SQL Server MCITP

Rob Volk does deranged things with SQL Server, so you don’t have to. A DBA in the Metro Atlanta area since 2001, he has also abused other database and programming platforms elsewhere and elsewhen. In his spare time he accomplishes more than he does on the job, just don’t tell his boss.

Register Now for PASS Summit 2014

 

SIOS is proud to sponsor PASS Summit 2014 in Seattle, Washington. Stop by booth #408 to say hi, get some free candy, and learn all about our SAN and #SANLess Clustering solutions.

If you’re interested in having some fun and learning more about SIOS, join us at one of our PASS events!

SQL Karaoke 2014

November 4
Presented by Denny Cherry, the unofficial PASS Summit Party Planner

SIOS PASS The Bacon Breakfast Panel

November 6 @ 6:45a
Four SQL MVPs and Experts. Full Breakfast. Bacon Included.

About PASS Summit

This is the world’s largest, most-focused, and most-intensive conference for Microsoft SQL Server and BI professionals.

Organized by and for SQL Server and BI users, PASS Summit delivers the most technical sessions, the largest number of attendees, the best networking, and the highest-rated sessions and speakers of any SQL Server event in the world.

PASS Summit is produced by PASS, an independent, not-for-profit association dedicated to supporting, educating, and promoting data professionals throughout the world who use the Microsoft data platform. Revenues from PASS Summit are used to support the global community year-round.

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Register Now for SQLSaturday Oregon

SIOS is proud to sponsor SQLSaturday Oregon. Be sure to visit the SIOS Table to chat HA and DR with our own MS Cluster MVP Dave Bermingham, 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 and a special prize courtesy of SanDisk too!

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

12:15 — Lunch Session: Clusters Your Way – #SANLess clusters for physical, virtual & cloud environments
Room: Conference Room A
Microsoft MVP Dave Bermingham 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 Oregon

Please join the Oregon SQL Server community for the 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. Last year we had nearly 500 attendees and our numbers are growing year after year. Please register as soon as possible.

Registration begins at 8:00 and the general welcome session is at 8:30. Sessions run throughout the day from 9:00 to 6:00. The closing general session and raffle drawings are at 6:15.

Admittance to this event is free, all costs are covered by donations and sponsorships. 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 Oregon
When: Saturday, November 1, 2014
Where: Mittleman Community Center – 6651 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219

Businesses are looking to the cloud to either be an extension of their current MS-SQL application infrastructure (Hybrid Cloud) or they are considering having their MS-SQL applications fully hosted in the cloud. A key consideration in either scenario is how they are going to provide high availability and disaster recovery to the applications so that users can continue working no matter what happens.

This webinar will feature Storage Switzerland founder, George Crump and Tony Tomarchio, Director of Field Engineering from SIOS Technology in a panelist style discussion about the best practices for selecting a method of protecting Microsoft applications and data from downtime in an AWS, Azure or other cloud environment.

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In this webinar, you will learn:

1. The advantages of a hybrid cloud or full cloud MS-SQL environment
2. The limitations of cloud environments when it comes to providing HA and DR
3. The difficulty in implementing MS-SQL in a “hybrid” fashion
4. How to overcome these limitations to provide full HA and DR, as well as simplify moving between on-premise and cloud based MS-SQL

Whether you want to protect applications in a private cloud within your organization, in a public cloud or across hybrid cloud infrastructure, it is important to develop an automated MS-SQL aware response to your HA and DR requirements. In this webinar, we will show you how to do just that.

All registrants will also be able to access Storage Switzerland’s extensive library of on-demand webinars, many with exclusive white papers, without having to re-register.

As is always the case with our webinars, we will leave plenty of time for questions and answers. Get your specific questions answered or just listen in to hear what your IT peers are struggling with and the solutions we recommend.

The live event will be held on Wednesday, October 29th at 1PM Eastern, 10AM Pacific, so register now!

Can’t attend? No worries, register anyway, we will send you the link to the on-demand webinar when it becomes available.