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Webinar: Oracle database High Availability In The Cloud

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Oracle Database High Availability In The Cloud

Webinar: Oracle Database High Availability In The Cloud

Oracle DB HA in the Cloud:
Save costs and cut downtime after migrating
your Oracle workloads to the cloud

Moving to the cloud does not have to involve disruptive changes to your architecture and application designs. Nor high costs to keep High Availability redundancy and architectural changes to your HA clusters.

Even when Oracle removed the RAC feature from Standard Edition from 19c onward, and ends support for 12c, you can still achieve high-availability with 3rd party HA solutions like SIOS. Enjoy savings of up to 70% of costs without upgrading to enterprise edition Oracle DB.

In this 1-hour online session, learn how you can achieve the above and more. This includes cost savings when using Oracle and other applications for your organization. All these without compromising your 99.99% uptime requirement in the cloud.

Agenda

  • Benefits of Migrating Oracle DB to the cloud
  • High-Availability Challenges of Moving Oracle in the cloud
  • Why it Matters: Cost benefits compared to using Oracle RAC/Dataguard
  • Oracle and SIOS HA on cloud architectures
  • Q&A

Live Webinar – Thursday, 23rd April, 2020
12pm SGT, 2pm AEST, 11am PHT, 9:30am IST

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SQL Saturday: High Availability and Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in Azure IaaS

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High Availability and Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in Azure IaaS

Speaker: Jason Aw

Duration: 60 minutes

Level: Beginner

Track: Application, DBA and Database Development

The CEO just tasked you with moving all the SQL Server instances to Azure, or maybe you are deploying a brand new application and want to leverage Azure IaaS to host SQL Server. Beyond security and performance, your most pressing concern might be ensuring SQL Server running in Azure is highly available.

While on-prem high availability and disaster recovery options for SQL Server are well defined, moving those instances to Azure immediately presents some questions and challenges. Can I simply lift and shift my SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance to the cloud? Do I need to upgrade to SQL Server Enterprise Edition and us Always On Availability Groups? What about shared storage and failover clustering? What about disaster recovery, what are my options there? Load Balancers, Fault Domains, Availability Zones, Azure Site Recovery and Region Pairs, what are these things and why do they matter to me?

High Availability and Disaster Recovery professional Jason Aw with 20 years of experience explains all this and more in detail.

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SQL Saturday: High Availability and Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in Azure IaaS

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SQL Saturday: High Availability and Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in Azure IaaS

Speaker: Jason Aw

Duration: 60 minutes

Level: Beginner

Track: Enterprise Database Administration & Deployment

The CEO just tasked you with moving all the SQL Server instances to Azure, or maybe you are deploying a brand new application and want to leverage Azure IaaS to host SQL Server. Beyond security and performance, your most pressing concern might be ensuring SQL Server running in Azure is highly available.

While on-prem high availability and disaster recovery options for SQL Server are well defined, moving those instances to Azure immediately presents some questions and challenges. Can I simply lift and shift my SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance to the cloud? Do I need to upgrade to SQL Server Enterprise Edition and us Always On Availability Groups? What about shared storage and failover clustering? What about disaster recovery, what are my options there? Load Balancers, Fault Domains, Availability Zones, Azure Site Recovery and Region Pairs, what are these things and why do they matter to me?

High Availability and Disaster Recovery professional Jason Aw with 20 years of experience explains all this and more in detail.

 

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

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

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

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New AWS Competency For ISVs Migrating Microsoft Workloads

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.

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