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Press Release: SIOS Webinar Featuring Microsoft Clustering MVP Provides a Practical Guide to High Availability Windows Clustering for SQL Server

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SAN MATEO, CA – June 23, 2014 – SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com), maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced a live webinar featuring Microsoft Clustering MVP, Dave Bermingham who will describe how to use Windows Server Failover Clustering to provide high availability and disaster protection for SQL Server. The live webinar “Windows Clustering for SQL 101″ will be held on June 26, 2014 at 10:00a PST / 1:00p EST. To register, please visit here:  https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/214255554 This presentation will begin with an overview of the basics of WSFC and how they work. Dave will also give practical advice on understanding your configuration options and creating high availability clusters to protect SQL in physical, virtual, cloud, and high performance storage deployments. Dave Bermingham is recognized within the technology community as a high availability expert and has been a Microsoft MVP in Clustering since 2010. As director, technical evangelist at SIOS Technology Corp., Dave provides expert guidance on Microsoft high availability and disaster recovery solutions and provides hands on support, training and professional services for cluster implementations. Dave also speaks on deploying highly available SQL Servers in the Azure Cloud and deploying Azure Hybrid Cloud for DR. Learn more at www.us.sios.com, email: David.Bermingham@us.sios.com; or visit ClusteringforMereMortals.com

About SIOS Technology Corp.

SIOS Technology Corp. makes SAN and #SANLess software solutions that make clusters easy to use and easy to own. An essential part of any cluster solution, SIOS SAN and #SANLess software 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. The unique SIOS #SANLess clustering solution allows you to configure clusters with local storage, eliminating both the cost and the single-point-of-failure risk of traditional shared (SAN) storage. Founded in 1999, SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com) is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and has offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Japan.

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

Storage Swiss: Clustered HA Storage for the Masses

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Many organizations rely on large databases, such as SQL Server, SAP, and Oracle, to run their most mission critical business applications. But the cost of implementing application high availability (HA) and continuous data protection through a clustered storage infrastructure in these environments can be cost prohibitive. SIOS Technology claims to have a clustered storage solution that will ensure HA for mission critical applications such as SQL Server, SAP, and Oracle with no data loss, at a much lower total cost of ownership than conventional clustered, shared storage offerings…

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June 26, 2014 Live Webinar: Windows Clustering for SQL 101 with Dave Bermingham

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Registration Closed: View the Recording

In this webinar, Microsoft MVP in Clustering, David Bermingham describes how to use Windows Server Failover Clustering to provide high availability and disaster protection for SQL Server. This presentation begins with an overview of the basics of WSFC and how they work.

Dave also gives practical advice on understanding your configuration options and answers common WSFC questions, such as: What are the benefits and drawbacks of traditional SAN-based clusters? What is a SANLess cluster and how do I build one? What are the best practices for using WSFC to ensure disaster recovery protection?

June 26,2014
10:00am Pacific / 1:00pm Eastern
Registration Closed: View the Recording

About the presenter:

Image -- Dave BerminghamDavid (Dave) 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 evangelizing Microsoft high availability and disaster recovery solutions as well as providing hands on support, training and professional services for cluster implementations.

Dave hold numerous technical certifications and draws from more than twenty years of experience IT, including work in the finance, healthcare and education fields, to help organizations design solutions to meet their high availability and disaster recovery needs. David has recently begun speaking on deploying highly available SQL Servers in the Azure Cloud and deploying Azure Hybrid Cloud for disaster recovery.

July 29, 2014: Live Webinar — #SANLess Windows Server Failover Cluster in Amazon EC2 for Mission Critical Applications

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Register now for the Live Webinar

You don’t need shared storage to get high availability protection for your enterprise applications running in Amazon EC2. Join Amazon Web Services expert Vikram Garlapati and SIOS’ cloud clustering expert Tony Tomarchio to learn how #SANLess clusters eliminate the cost, complexity, and single point of failure risk of traditional SAN-based clusters. Get the protection and configuration flexibility you need to run mission critical applications in the cloud.

We’ll be discussing ways to protect SQL, SAP, File Servers, and other enterprise-class Windows applications in Amazon EC2. Learn how leading enterprises have used #SANLess clusters to meet their HA and DR objectives quickly and easily. Watch in real time as we create a #SANLess Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC).

July 29, 2014
11:00am Pacific / 2:00pm Eastern
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About the Presenters

Tony Tomarchio
Director of Field Engineering, SIOS TechnologyTony TomarchioAs 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. Tony holds a BS in Computer Science from California Polytechnic (Cal Poly) State University, San Luis Obispo.		 Vikram Garlapati
Manager Solutions Architect, Amazon Web ServicesVikram Garlapati - AmazonVikram 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.

June 28, 2014: SQLSaturday Maine

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Register for SQLSaturday Maine

SIOS is proud to sponsor SQLSaturday Maine! Be sure to drop your raffle ticket for chance to win.

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held Jun 28 2014 at USM Wishcamper Center, 34-44 Bedford Street, Portland, ME 04104. Admittance to this event is free, but there will be a lunch fee of 10.00 to cover the cost of food – not pizza! Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleagues know about the event.