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Jordan’s Furniture Uses Machine Learning Analytics To Improve Performance

April 26, 2018 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

SIOS iQ Uses Machine Learning Analytics To Identify Root Cause Of Datastore Latency Issue, Improve Efficiency Of VMware Environment

Case Study: Jordan’s Furniture Improves Performance and Efficiency with SIOS iQ IT Analytics Software

Leading Massachusetts based furniture retailer uses Machine Learning Analytics to improve their operations and decisions. Jordan’s Furniture has locations throughout New England. Their IT department continuously improves its infrastructure to keep its business operations running efficiently and cost-effectively.

The Jordan’s Furniture IT department needed an IT analytics solution that would provide a view across their infrastructure and enable them to find and resolve issues and inefficiencies quickly and easily.

They wanted an easy to-implement, cost-efficient solution that would allow them to be proactive – resolving issues before they become serious. Essentially, one place to look to check the state of their operations, identify wasted VM resources. They can get solutions to performance issues, and predict capacity utilization for accurate budgeting.

Jordan’s Furniture implemented SIOS iQ machine learning analytics tool simply by downloading an OVA file that installs a lightweight virtual machine. The patented machine learning technology in SIOS iQ immediately “learned” the behavior patterns of interrelated objects in their environment. It began analyzing normal versus anomalous behavior patterns. The tool automatically provided key insights and actionable recommendations for improvements.

The IT team used SIOS iQ machine learning analytics tool to make informed decision about whether to purchase storage acceleration hardware. SIOS iQ instantly determined whether an application performance issue could be improved by the use of storage acceleration such as host-based caching, allflash arrays, or hybrid storage. It recommended changes that addressed the root cause of the performance issue. This would result in higher performance gains without the need to purchase additional hardware. With SIOS iQ, Jordan’s Furniture was able to improve performance without wasting time and money.

To find out how you can benefit from Machine Learning Analytics with SIOS, go here.

Credit Union Optimizes Savings with SIOS iQ Machine Learning Analytics

April 22, 2018 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

SIOS iQ Machine Learning Analytics identifies root causes of performance issues, improves efficiency of VMware environment

Case Study: AllSouth Federal Credit Union Saves with SIOS iQ Machine Learning Analytics

The credit union relies on a business critical banking application running on a cloud-based Windows Server. It accesses a large Oracle database hosted in their VMware environment.

The organization felt that traditional tools are all hard to use. It only gave them a limited “siloed” view of the environment. These tools provide a lot of broad information. However these information did not find the source of problems or recommend ways to solve them.

So the IT department came across SIOS machine learning analytics and set up a trial. SIOS iQ immediately provided a holistic view across all of the silos of the operating status of AllSouth’s entire virtual environment. They commented on the ease of implementing SIOS iQ. The dashboard was so user-friendly and intuitive, and was running in a few minutes. SIOS iQ immediately provided a holistic view across all of the silos of the operating status of AllSouth’s entire virtual environment.

Unexpected Benefits With Machine Learning Approach

Since implementing SIOS iQ, AllSouth’s IT team has used it to address a variety of issues. When a performance issue arises, SIOS iQ instantaneously connects that issue to its source in the infrastructure. The software quickly provides specific recommendations for resolving it. As a result, AllSouth’s IT team solves issues faster without the rework and inefficient trial-and-error process needed with traditional tools.

SIOS iQ’s ability to pinpoint and validate sources of performance issues and to calculate potential cost-savings and performance improvements has had unexpected benefits in communicating with management, other departments, and outside vendors.

By enabling the AllSouth IT staff to visualize the interrelationships of objects in their environment, SIOS iQ’s topological mapping also provides both a key training resource and an invaluable diagnostic tool.

To find out how you can benefit from Machine Learning Analytics with SIOS, go here.

Continuous Availability And Disaster Protection for Critical Applications

April 22, 2018 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

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

April 17, 2018 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

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

April 15, 2018 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

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.