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

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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.”

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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

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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.”

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.

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

Subscribe to Data Informed The IT Shift from Computer Science to Data Science

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You may think that the words “artificial intelligence” or “machine learning” sound like trendy buzzwords. In reality, much of the hype about this technology is true. Unlike past periods of excitement over artificial intelligence, today’s interest is no longer an academic exercise. Now, IT has a real-world need for faster solutions to problems that are too complex for humans alone. This includes identifying the root causes of performance issues in virtual infrastructures.

Today, almost every large enterprise has virtualized part, or all, of their data centers. With virtualization, IT teams gain access to a huge variety and volume of real-time machine data they want to use to understand and solve the issues in their IT operations environments. However, the complexity of managing virtual IT environments is stressing out traditional IT departments. As a result, IT pros are discovering that the solution lies in the data and in the artificial intelligence-based tools that can leverage it.

Data Science to the Rescue

As worldwide digital data levels continue to climb, companies are working to find the business value in their data, and to adapt their computer science strategies to the evolving data science market. Legacy management and monitoring tools used the same approach they used for physical server environments — that is, by looking at discrete silos (network, storage, infrastructure, application). They used multiple manually-set thresholds to focus on individual metrics — CPU utilization, memory utilization, network latency, etc., within each silo.

This threshold-based approach originated in a relatively static, well-understood physical server environment which has proven ineffective in handling the complexity of today’s virtual environments. Unlike their counterparts in physical server environments, components in virtual environments share host resources, creating complex, highly interdependent relationships between them. They are also highly dynamic, enabling IT to continually create and move workloads across VMs. IT pros can no longer make informed decisions using manual computer science approaches of yesterday and analyzing alerts from a single silo at a time. This is why companies are turning to “data science” approach that leverages sophisticated AI disciplines of machine learning and deep learning to get a holistic, automated solution to eliminate the time-consuming, manual process of problem-solving performance issues and optimizing virtual environments.

Machine Learning Analytics Tools Provide the Answers

Rather than monitoring individual metrics as threshold-based tools do, advanced machine learning-based solutions learn the complex behavior of interrelated components as they change over time. They can consider multiple metrics of related components simultaneously. As a result, they deliver much more precise, accurate information about virtual environments than either primitive machine learning tools or traditional threshold-based tools. Instead of creating “alert storms”, they identify the meaningful incidents associated with abnormal behavior at a specific time of day, week, month and year. And because machine learning is central to the design, there is no manual configuration required. Advanced machine learning solutions, can be up and running in minutes and learning behaviors immediately. As a result, this shift to a data-centric, behavior-based approach has major implications that significantly empower IT professionals. IT pros will always need domain expertise in computer science, but what analytical skills will IT need to become effective in this new AI-driven world?

Instead of spending their days reacting to and reworking application performance issues, IT will shift their focus from diagnosing problems to proactively predicting and avoiding them in the first place. Freed of the need to over-provision to ensure performance and reliability, they will be able to look for ways to optimize efficiency and spend their time focusing on the larger goals at hand. This allows IT to provide true business value, and work on projects that drive company objectives forward. Generally, that kind of value gives IT an important voice in senior management, bringing them into the decision making process and closing the gap between IT and operations. And as IT pros understanding and use of machine learning-based analytics tools advance, they will be on the forefront of building the foundation for automation and the future of the self-driving data center.

Jim’s Bio:

Jim Shocrylas is the Director of Product Management at SIOS.  Jim has more than 20 years in the IT industry, most recently as Portfolio Manager for EMC’s Emerging Technologies Division.

Press Release: Using SANLess Window Server Failover Clustering to Achieve High Availability without Disruption is the Featured Topic of the Next SIOS Clustering 101 Webinar Series

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SAN MATEO, CA – June 17, 2015 – SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com), maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced Microsoft Clustering MVP and SIOS Senior Technical Evangelist Dave Bermingham will unveil strategies for quickly and cost-efficiently using SANLess Window Server Failover Clustering to implement high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) in the next session of its Clustering 101 webinar series.

Titled “HA Implementation without Disruption or Delay,” this webinar will be held on Wednesday, June 24 at 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT. To register, please visit: http://us.sios.com/2015-06-clustering101

In this month’s Clustering 101 webinar Dave Bermingham will review strategies for implementing HA and DR for SQL Server without disrupting ongoing business operations. He will discuss real-world scenarios, key preparations, and the necessary steps for installing and configuring a SANLess Window Server Failover clustering quickly and efficiently.

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. Dave’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. Dave 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 http://us.sios.com

About Clustering 101

Clustering 101 is a webinar series hosted by Microsoft MVP Dave Bermingham focused on addressing the numerous facets of clustering for high availability, data replication and any combination thereof. This series will air monthly, the fourth Wednesday of the month at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET. Check our events page for details: http://us.sios.com/about/news-events/

About 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.

SIOS, SIOS Technology, SIOS DataKeeper, SIOS Protection Suite, Clusters Your Way, 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.

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

Press Release: Implementing a SANLess Cluster in Under an Hour Will be the Focus of the Next SIOS Webinar

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SAN MATEO, CA – June 11, 2015 – SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com), maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced that MS SQL Server MVP Kendal Van Dyke will be the featured presenter in a live webinar that will teach attendees how to implement a SANLess SQL Server clustered instance in less than an hour.

Titled, “Implementing a SANLess SQL Server Cluster in Under an Hour,” this webinar will be held on Thursday, June 18 at 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT. To register, please visit: http://us.sios.com/2015-06-webinar

In this webinar, Kendal Van Dyke will share how to migrate a replication distributor from a standalone instance to a clustered instance in under an hour. Drawing from real world experience, Kendal’s use case is a company that needed to implement a failover cluster to protect their SQL Server replication distributor and the applications that rely on it during a strict one-hour window and without causing disruption to ongoing business processes or slowing performance. Kendal will describe the customer’s HA needs, options and why a SIOS SANLess cluster was the solution of choice.

About the Speaker

Kendal Van Dyke is a principal consultant at UpSearch, a Microsoft Cloud and Database Platform Partner. Kendal is passionate about helping leaders use Microsoft’s SQL Server to solve complex problems that protect, unlock and optimize data’s value. Since 1999, Kendal has specialized in SQL Server database management solutions. He excels at disaster recovery, high availability planning/implementation and debugging/troubleshooting mission critical SQL Server environments. He currently serves the SQL Server community as founder and president of MagicPass, the Orlando, FL based chapter of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS). Since 2008, Kendal has operated a SQL Server focused blog at http://www.kendalvandyke.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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SIOS, SIOS Technology, SIOS DataKeeper, SIOS Protection Suite, Clusters Your Way, 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.

Contact:

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