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Continuous Availability And Disaster Protection for Critical Applications

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Continuous Availability And Disaster Protection for Critical Applications

SIOS DataKeeper® Cluster Edition and Deployment Services Protect Carroll Hospital Center’s Electronic Medical Records System

Case Study: Carroll Hospital — SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition

Carroll Hospital Center set out to ensure Continuous Availability and Disaster Protection for their Critical Applications and Data. The organisation wanted to configure a comprehensive disaster recovery solution. They were looking for something to meet their rapid failover and data replication needs.

Carroll Hospital Center relies heavily on the availability of its electronic medical records (EMR) system. It is managed by an application from McKesson called Horizon Patient Folder. The Center had only one primary data processing system. Carroll Hospital Center needed a reliable, comprehensive disaster recovery solution to ensure the availability of its EMR system in the event of a site-wide disaster. And at the same time, ensure Continuous Availability and Disaster Protection.

However, most of the available options were not robust enough to meet their data replication requirements. The solutions could not integrate with its back- end applications. The healthcare provider’s IT partner recommended SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition. The Hospital Center wanted a comprehensive disaster recovery solution that delivered both high availability and data replication.

Continuous Availability and Disaster Protection With SIOS

“SIOS is the only provider that meets this need. They could deliver a superior disaster recovery technology and unsurpassed business continuity expertise,” said Christine Mirosavich, CAS Severn account executive for Carroll Hospital Center.

Carroll Hospital Center now has a comprehensive DR solution that that keeps mission-critical applications such as its EMR always available. Unlike the hospital’s previous standalone EMR system, the IT team no longer waste hours performing a manual failover and reconfigure the clients. Instead, their failover time is automatic. It takes less than a minute in the event of system failure or a disaster. SIOS DataKeeper provides continuous real-time, host-based, block level replication delivering continuous access to patient records.

SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition met Carroll Hospital Center’s need to failover from one site to another without requiring a large investment in overhead and resources. This ensures that critical patient electronic medical records are always accessible and maintained in the event of a disaster. With continuous Availability and Disaster Protection, the hospital can continue providing the highest quality of care for its patients.

To find out how you can benefit from Continuous Availability and Disaster Protection with SIOS, go here.

 

SIOS Gives High Availability Protection For Business Critical SQL Server

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SIOS Gives High Availability Protection For Business Critical SQL Server

Cayan™ Protects Business Critical Applications, Enjoys High Availability Protection And Disaster Protection with SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition

Case Study: Cayan™ — SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition

Cayan™ is the leading provider of payment technologies that give businesses a competitive advantage.

When Cayan decided to move to a larger, state-of-the-art data center, they looked for an affordable, easy-to-deploy way to provide high availability protection and disaster protection for the SQL Server database. Their Genius platform and other important applications run on SQL Server database.

Cayan IT staff decided to use SIOS #SANLess clusters. They built two-node clusters using standard Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). Next, they simply added SIOS DataKeeper™ Cluster Edition software as an ingredient. The SIOS software uses efficient, real time replication to synchronize local storage in the primary and remote cluster nodes. This made them appear to WSFC as a virtual SAN.

SIOS software has very intuitive configuration wizards. This enabled Cayan to deploy our platform and applications in the SANless clusters quickly and easily,

The SIOS software provided the protection Cayan needed to protect its important Windows applications. All these without the cost or performance impediments of a SAN. Since deploying their SANless clusters, Cayan has not experienced any downtime or data loss, and continues to enjoy high availability protection.

 

SIOS Provides High Availability and Disaster Protection to Epicure

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SIOS Provides High Availability and Disaster Protection to Epicure

Epicure Protects Business Critical SQL Server, Provides High Availability And Disaster Protection With Amazon EC2 And SIOS #SANLess Clustering Software

Case Study: Epicure Selections — SIOS DataKeeper SANless Clusters

Epicure needed a solution to provide High Availability and Disaster Protection for their two websites. Both of which are highly critical to their business operations.

The websites run on a single server using two instances of SQL Server Standard Edition—one for each website. As the company expanded its products and services, the Epicure IT department needed an update. It had to ensure both of its business-critical websites would continue to operate in the event of failures or disasters. They decided to move both websites from a third-party hosted facility to its on-premises data center. Also, to use Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud for disaster protection and recovery.

As part of this website update process, Epicure IT staff wanted something efficient and cost effective. A solution that can provide high availability and disaster protection for both websites. And at the same time, continuing to run them on two instances of SQL Server Standard Edition.

The SIOS software was a fit for Epicure. SIOS was an easy, cost-efficient way to provide High Availability and disaster protection and recovery for its business-critical SQL Server applications. All without the cost and complexity of building out a remote DR site or purchasing costly SAN storage or SQL Server Enterprise Edition licenses.

Gulliver Use WSFC To Build A Failover Cluster In AWS Cloud

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Gulliver Use WSFC To Build A Failover Cluster In AWS Cloud

SIOS DataKeeper Clustering Software Enables Gulliver International to Move Internal IT Systems to AWS Cloud Safely

Case Study: Gulliver — SIOS DataKeeper SANless Clusters

Gulliver International has plans to migrate all of its internal systems to AWS Cloud. The company is a leading pre-owned car company based in Tokyo with 420 locations throughout Japan. Over the next four years, Gulliver International plans to expand into a global business with 1600 stores worldwide.

It is promoting a company-wide “cloud-first” policy for all new applications. To ensure its IT infrastructure can accommodate this rapid growth, the company needs to find an appropriate software that would help to migrate to cloud safely and with High Availability.

SIOS DataKeeper software enables Gulliver to use Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) to build a failover cluster in a cloud environment, where traditional shared storage clusters are not possible. SIOS software uses efficient, real time replication to synchronize storage between servers operating as a WSFC cluster in an AWS environment. Using SIOS software, Gulliver can configure two servers operating as a cluster across separate Amazon Availability Zones.

Just as in a traditional physical environment, if there is a failure on the primary server in the AWS cloud within one Availability Zone, WSFC moves the application to the second server located in another Amazon Availability Zone, providing full disaster tolerance and recovery in AWS cloud.

With SIOS DataKeeper software, Gulliver can move to the AWS cloud without adding complexity or disruption to existing operations.  About 30 percent of Gulliver’s existing on-premises systems have been migrated to AWS without any changes to the company’s system administration or added complexity

SIOS DataKeeper Adds High Availability Protection To Cluster

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Healthcare Platform Eliminated Need For Shared Storage with SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition

Case Study: Leading Healthcare Provider — SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition

A leading provider of enterprise platforms for the home healthcare provider market decided to add SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition as a high availability (HA) solution to minimize the risk of downtime. It had relied on its SQL Server databases to provide fast, efficient service to its end users.

Many of the company’s important applications rely on SQL Server running on a physical server in their on-premises data center. They wanted to protect their SQL Server Replication Distributor – a central database required for managing and updating all SQL databases.

The company’s best solution was to use Windows Server Failover Clustering to create a two node cluster using their existing server hardware, which was already equipped with solid state disk storage. By adding SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software to their cluster, they eliminated the need for shared storage. SIOS software uses fast block level replication to synchronize local storage in both of the cluster nodes, creating a storage environment that appears to WSFC as a SAN. They connected the nodes directly using crossover cables and 10Gig NICs to eliminate the cost of a network switch and ensure the fastest possible replication for real time synchronization of the cluster nodes.