Webinar: Maximizing SAP High Availability and Disaster Recovery with Automated Multitarget: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Webinar: Maximizing SAP High Availability and Disaster Recovery with Automated Multitarget: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

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This on-demand symposium session explores the critical role of a multitarget cluster architecture in ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for SAP S/4 HANA and SAP HANA environments. Through real-world examples and practical insights, gain an understanding of the benefits of a multitarget cluster architecture in terms of reducing risk, improving resiliency, and ensuring business continuity. Gain valuable insights into the critical role of a multitarget cluster architecture in maximizing SAP high availability and disaster recovery and learn how to apply these best practices to SAP environments.

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Webinar: Navigating Cloud SLAs and Ensuring Application-Level Resilience

Webinar: Navigating Cloud SLAs and Ensuring Application-Level Resilience

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Confusion persists regarding cloud SLAs, particularly concerning application-level considerations for critical software like SAP, SQL Server, and Oracle. Determining the necessary level of availability, be it standard availability, high availability, or disaster recovery protection, for your cloud-hosted applications is crucial. Watch this on-demand Symposium session to learn strategies for achieving your high availability and disaster recovery objectives for mission-critical applications in the cloud.

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Video: Getting Down To The Basics, Why You Need High Availability

Video: Getting Down To The Basics, Why You Need High Availability

High availability is all about making sure that mission-critical systems, applications, and services are available for customers when they need it. In this video, Cassius Rhue, VP of Customer Experience at SIOS Technology, shares his insights on high availability environments and the importance of having a dedicated HA support team.

Challenges associated with setting up high-availability (HA) environments:

• Defining what HA means for the company: is it just four 9s or beyond?
• Understanding the company’s goals and requirements: which applications need to be highly available, what are the interactions, how clients connect to those systems.
• Planning out the architecture according to best practices, and then implementing where HA software is needed.
• Consulting with or augmenting the team with HA experts in constructing HA systems, deploying HA software to increase the application and database availability, handling the replication of data and data availability between servers and systems and data centers.
• Navigating silos. Each team in the IT infrastructure has to think beyond their silo to recognize that high availability impacts networking, compute resources, storage resources, the applications, and the database. It is a collective effort of the entire organization seeking to make sure they are resilient.

On the importance of HA Support:

• Systems are becoming increasingly complex. People are busy with their roles, and it’s not their primary job to understand all the inner workings of every system.
• Organizations tend to have DBAs, application experts, storage experts or AWS Certified architects, but you very rarely find an expert in high availability software.
• It is critical to have a team that understands the complexity of HA systems, knows how to architect for best practices, knows the different use case scenarios, and is dedicated to helping you when issues arise.

On choosing an HA Support vendor:

• Select a reputable HA organization that provides the level of support that meets your SLAs. SIOS Technology’s HA organization is available 24/7 and has award-winning support representatives.
• Understand what their support agreements are.
• Understand your levers for escalation when you don’t feel like you’re getting the proper level of support, e.g., Support Director, senior support member, etc.
• Make sure you’re communicating and understanding one another, especially if there are language differences.

On how to get the most out of your HA Support vendor:

• Notes: Keep good notes and details about the architecture, aka runbooks. This includes how systems are architected together, how they work, the versions, applications, and teams involved.
• Notice: Give your support team as much advance notice about changes in your environment and about maintenance plans. This helps them align with your plans, check those plans, and helps them to be better prepared when you need to call in.
• News: Share any news about your organization or about your environment with the support team, including personnel changes. And then follow their news about their software/product/ HA best practices.
• Say no to taking shortcuts or not involving your support organization in advance.
• Keep lines of communication open and ongoing.

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Webinar: High Availability Strategies for 24/7 Operations in FinServ

Webinar: High Availability Strategies for 24/7 Operations in FinServ

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In the world of financial services, minutes or even seconds of downtime can be make-or-break moments. This Symposium session explores cost-efficient best practices, ensuring the protection and continuous operation of your transactional, processing, and administrative financial systems in both Windows and Linux environments. Discover how to withstand hardware failures, administrator errors, routine maintenance, and even site-wide disasters with confidence.

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Webinar: Mastering Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in BMS

Webinar: Mastering Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in BMS

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Whether you’re an experienced IT professional or new to BMS, this on-demand Symposium session provides insights to establish an unshakable SQL Server environment, ensuring system uptime in any scenario, and keeping your BMS applications always within reach. Todd Doane, SIOS Solution Architect discusses real-world success stories and tangible advantages gained from embracing high availability solutions tailored specifically to the challenges of Building Management Systems (BMS).