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Webinar: Business Continuity Considerations for Hybrid and Cloud-based SQL Server Deployments

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Webinar: Business Continuity Considerations for Hybrid and Cloud-based SQL Server Deployments

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Availability is one of the core tenets for any SQL Server deployment – the business needs to stay up and running. This session will cover how achieving that goal for hybrid and cloud-only deployments of SQL Server is both similar to as well as different from purely on-premises (physical or virtual) configurations. You’ll also get top tips, tricks, dos, and don’ts for successfully deploying and administering Always On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances, and more to be an availability hero when you are not just deploying on-premises solutions anymore.

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Video: How SIOS Makes High Availability & Disaster Recovery Easy In SAP HANA Environment

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Video: How SIOS Makes High Availability & Disaster Recovery Easy In SAP HANA Environment

In this video, Todd Doane, Solutions Architect at SIOS, talks about how SIOS provides high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) in the SAP HANA environment.

Highlights of this video interview:

  • SAP HANA is a complex environment with three layers: presentation, application, and database. While the presentation layer is easy to protect, the other two present challenges. There are different processes running, there is data moving between the layers and between servers, there is replication going on. There are many possible failure scenarios and many things to monitor, on top of following SAP best practices. To ensure a recovery point objective (RPO) of near-zero data loss is a daunting task.
  • The key thing is to reduce the single points of failure, multiple servers at every layer, with replication to a passive and standby server and a disaster recovery server. And those need to be distributed through multiple data centers.
  • The biggest cause of failure is when there are a lot of tasks and scripts that need to run and having someone do it manually. This increases the chance of human error. Therefore, to be able to provide a good HA/DR environment, you need 1) automation, and 2) planning and frequent testing to make sure that HA is working as expected, your databases are getting registered, and failover is truly seamless.
  • Once the SAP HANA environment is set up, the SIOS Protection Suite installation and configuration can be done through a GUI wizard, which takes about an hour. It orchestrates and automates to make the failover extremely easy. It adheres to all the SAP best practices for fast, reliable continued operation. It also features a “takeover with handshake” of the SAP HANA database.
  • SIOS recently added the SAP HANA third-node support. SIOS has always been able to do that at the application layer but now, it can support it at the database layer as well.

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Video: SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux v9.7 Adds New HA/DR Capabilities For SAP HANA

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Video: SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux v9.7 Adds New HA/DR Capabilities For SAP HANA


In this video, our VP of Global Sales and Marketing Margaret Hoagland introduces the HANA Multitarget feature in our latest release of SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux.

Key highlights of this video interview:

SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux is a high availability clustering software that protects critical applications such as SAP, S/4HANA, SQL Server, and Oracle from downtime and disasters. It works by detecting any kind of a failure on the primary node. In the event of a failure, it moves operations to a secondary node where it can continue.

It supports major Linux distributions such as SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle, and Rocky. Customers can standardize their high availability environment and have the same experience regardless of the operating system.

New features and capabilities in SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux v9.7, include HANA Multitarget:

  • It automates the process of failing over to a secondary node plus replicating to a third or even a fourth node for disaster recovery.
  • The secondary node will assume full ownership of the primary node status.
  • It allows customers to have the third node in a geographically separated location.
  • It eliminates the complexity and the manual scripting, which can be quite cumbersome.
  • It uses HANA system replication, so it’s in alignment with SAP best practices.

This feature came directly from customer feedback. SIOS customers have large SAP environments with big HANA databases and complex disaster recovery requirements.

This is a straightforward upgrade process, no caveats. If the customer is extending to a disaster recovery location, they need to consult the SIOS documentation for instructions.

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Video: Ensuring High Availability And Disaster Recovery For Cloud

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Video: Ensuring High Availability And Disaster Recovery For Cloud

In this video, Jason Huff, our Linux Product Owner, will discuss the current trends in the market, in terms of high availability and disaster recovery.

Highlights of this video interview:

  • Open-source clustering requires highly complicated scripting and is also prone to human error and failure. The manual steps required to ensure that these complicated ERPs or databases are complicated and extremely order-dependent. Therefore, IT teams become hesitant to perform regular maintenance and failover testing.
  • If an application is critical to your day-to-day operations, then you need highly automated, high availability clustering in order to protect it.
  • When a failure happens in the cloud, your application needs intelligent recovery of the failed components and all their dependencies.

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Video: SIOS Cloud Availability Symposium 2023 To Focus On Disaster Recovery Mastery

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SIOS Cloud Availability Symposium 2023 To Focus On Disaster Recovery Mastery

Video: SIOS Cloud Availability Symposium 2023 To Focus On Disaster Recovery Mastery

In this video, Natalia Casey, our Senior Marketing Programs Manager, talks about SIOS’s upcoming event, SIOS Cloud Availability Symposium 2023. She also discusses how SIOS Technology is helping companies protect their applications, ensuring they have effective strategies around high availability and disaster recovery.

Highlights of this video interview:

  • While cloud provides a lot of benefits, organizations may not be aware of the gaps that cloud does not cover in terms of availability and disaster recovery. Casey talks about the need for constant education of the IT teams and lots of testing to ensure all of the disaster recovery plans and processes remain effective.
  • The symposium will focus on disaster recovery mastery for SAP where attendees will be able to learn about best practices for disaster recovery planning and implementation, as well as tips for ensuring high availability of their SAP environment. Casey explains some of the key topics that will be included in the event.
  • The event is aimed at anyone running applications in the cloud who wants to learn about disaster recovery, high availability and protecting applications in the cloud.
  • You can register to attend the event on the this page and sessions will be recorded and available for on-demand viewing for registered attendees.

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