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IT Briefcase: Enterprises Adopt SIOS Technology SANLess Clustering Software on Amazon Web Services for Cloud HA and DR

May 11, 2015 by Margaret Hoagland

SAN MATEO, CA – May 11, 2015 – SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com), maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced that leading enterprise companies are turning to its SANLess clustering software, SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition, to provide high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) of critical data on business critical applications in Amazon Web Services cloud environments.  Some of these enterprises include Gulliver International, a Tokyo-based pre-owned car company; Epicure Selections, Canada’s leading direct sales company; andSpirent, a global leader in communications test and measurement.

“Business critical applications require high availability protection, regardless of where they are deployed,” said Jerry Melnick, COO, SIOS Technology.  “In the cloud, you need to protect applications from downtime just as you do in a physical server environment. However, traditional solutions, such as shared-storage clusters may not be practical or even possible in the cloud. With SIOS SANLess clustering software, enterprises are able to use traditional Windows Server Failover Clustering to provide high availability and disaster recovery protection for SQL Server and other enterprise applications in the cloud without the limitations of shared storage.”

Most cloud providers enable a measure of disaster protection by allowing enterprises to use multiple separate and redundant data centers or computing resources. However, they do not offer shared storage (i.e., a SAN), which is required to support traditional Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) for high availability. SANless software can be added to a WSFC to create a high availability cluster without the need for shared storage. With it, companies can quickly and easily run their business critical applications, such as SQL Server, SAP, Siebel Gateway, and others, in a cloud environment without sacrificing high availability protection.

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Filed Under: News and Events, News posts Tagged With: Amazon AWS, Cloud, Epicure Selections, Gulliver International, IT Briefcase, Spirent

IT Briefcase: SIOS DataKeeper SANLess Clustering Software is Now Microsoft Azure Certified and Available in the Azure Marketplace

April 2, 2015 by Margaret Hoagland

SAN MATEO, CA – April 2, 2015 – SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com), maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced that its SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software is Microsoft Azure certified and now available in the Azure Marketplace. The new SIOS offering is the only Azure certified software that enables customers to create a SANLess high availability cluster in Azure using Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering.

By adding SIOS DataKeeper software to Windows Server Failover Clustering, customers can quickly and easily help protect business-critical Windows environments from downtime and data loss in a cloud or a combination of physical, virtual, or hybrid cloud environment. Now, for the first time, applications depending on SAN-based Windows server failover clusters for protection can be moved to Azure and achieve the more comprehensive high availability protection they need.

“We are pleased that Microsoft has chosen to certify and include SIOS DataKeeper in the Azure Marketplace. By providing fast, convenient access to SIOS DataKeeper software, our Azure Marketplace offering enables customers to deploy their important applications such as SQL, SAP, and Oracle in Azure with the same high availability protection they have in traditional physical server environments,” said Jerry Melnick, COO of SIOS Technology.

“Products like SIOS DataKeeper are pivotal in the cloud transformation,” said Vibhor Kapoor, Director of Product Marketing, Microsoft Azure. “By providing the essential high availability protection for critical applications that enterprises need, SIOS and Azure are enabling customers to take their journey to the cloud with confidence.”

Along with its Azure Marketplace offering, SIOS provides an informative, step-by-step guide to creating a high availability failover cluster to protect SQL Server in Azure IaaS written by Microsoft MVP, David Bermingham. The SIOS DataKeeper offering in the Azure Marketplace is at:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/sios-datakeeper/sios-datakeeper-8-bring-your-own-license/

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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IT Briefcase: SIOS SANLess Clustering Software Provides Epicure Selections with High Availability and Disaster Recovery Protection for Critical SQL Server Applications

January 20, 2015 by Margaret Hoagland

SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com), maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced that Epicure Selections is using SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software to easily and cost-efficiently provide HA and DR protection for its business-critical SQL Server applications without the complexity of building out a remote DR site or purchasing costly SQL Server Enterprise Edition licenses.

Epicure, Canada’s leading direct sales company, sells healthy, easy-to-prepare food products through a network of over 16,000 consultants.  Epicure relies on two websites for its critical business operations. Its public website provides product, company, and consultant enrollment information to customers and people interested in becoming a consultant. The internal website provides consultants with important product information and enables them to place orders.

The company uses two instances of SQL Server Standard Edition, one for each website running on a single server. “Our websites are vital to our business,” said Russell Born, senior network infrastructure administrator at Epicure.

As the company grew and expanded its products and services, the Epicure IT department needed to update and protect its business-critical websites from downtime. It decided to move both websites from a third-party hosted facility to its on-premises data center and Amazon Web Services. As part of this update, Epicure wanted an efficient, cost-effective way to provide high availability and disaster protection for both websites while continuing to run them on two instances of SQL Server Standard Edition.

Using SIOS SANLess clustering software, Epicure IT staff created a two-node cluster in an active-passive failover configuration that enables each SQL instance to failover independently. One cluster node is in the on-premises data center and the second node is in an instance of the AWS EC2 cloud. Epicure IT staff created the SIOS SANLess clusters and configured them using the software’s intuitive graphical user interface.

The SIOS software provides Epicure with an easy, cost-efficient way to provide HA and DR protection for its business-critical SQL Server applications without the complexity of building out a remote DR site or purchasing costly SQL Server Enterprise Edition licenses. “The SIOS software has allowed us to create a hybrid solution providing additional cost savings of running on-premises with the reliability and flexibility of running in the cloud,” said Born. “Knowing that a website outage will result in an automatic failover allows our IT Team to focus their attention on other priorities to strengthen our business.”

“Whether you want to protect applications in a physical server, a private cloud within an organization, in a public cloud or a hybrid cloud, you need to protect applications, like Windows SQL Server, from downtime if the cloud instance or the cloud provider fails,” said Jerry Melnick, COO, SIOS Technology.  “Epicure is using SIOS to provide a fast, easy way to deploy applications in a high availability environment in the cloud while continuing to use Windows Server Failover Clustering.  I applaud them for their use case and innovation and look forward to continuing to provide value to their HA and DR strategies.”

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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Filed Under: News and Events, News posts Tagged With: #SANLess Clusters for Windows Environments, Cloud, Epicure, IT Briefcase, SQL Server

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with SIOS Technology: SAN-based vs. Cloud Clusters

December 15, 2014 by <a href="/tag/it-briefcase/">IT Briefcase</a> Leave a Comment

In this interview,  Jerry Melnick, COO, SIOS Technology discusses the difference between SAN-based and Cloud data storage clusters, and the benefits and drawbacks of each approach.

SAN-based clusters have been the traditional way to protect critical applications and data. Is this still the case?
Traditional clusters based on shared storage (typically SAN) are no longer the de facto choice for providing high availability and disaster protection for business critical applications. Companies are finding new ways to combine physical, virtual, and cloud environments into new configurations to control costs and stay agile in today’s demanding marketplace. In these environments, traditional SAN-based clusters have significant drawbacks. SAN storage can be costly to buy and require specialized skills to manage. They also introduce the risks of a single point of failure. In addition, shared storage is not typically offered in public cloud environments. In these environments, SANLess clusters that provide the same level of protection without requiring shared storage are often a better option.

Can you create a cluster in the cloud?
Yes, in a Windows environment, you can use native Windows Server Failover Clustering to create a cluster in a cloud by simply adding SANLess clustering software. You can locate cluster nodes in geographically separated instances in public cloud environments for disaster protection. The software synchronizes local storage on source and target nodes in the cloud, making them appear to the WSFC as shared storage. If a failure occurs, WSFC moves the application operation to the remote node in the same way it does in a traditional shared storage cluster.

What technologies are available to reduce the financial burden of SAN administration and deliver the flexibility data centers need today?
SANLess clusters reduce the financial burden of traditional shared storage clusters in severael ways. They eliminate the significant hardware cost of SAN storage. They eliminate the labor cost of specialized SAN administration. \ SANLess clusters also support local SSD storage, enabling high performance and high availability for a fraction of the cost of a SAN-based cluster.

How can a SANLess cluster make providing disaster protection easier?
A SANLess cluster solution lets you implement disaster protection without the need for identical SAN hardware in both your primary and disaster recovery locations. You can replicate between any two environments physical, virtual, or cloud for disaster protection. For example, you can maintain a SAN or SANLess cluster at your primary data center and add a node in a public cloud for disaster recovery. This configuration not only saves the cost of SAN storage, but also the cost of building out a remote data center.

You can create SANLess clusters in a public cloud with nodes in separate geographic zones or even in two different public cloud provider environments, such as Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure for protection from local, regional, and even provider-wide outages.

Do traditional high availability clusters have an impact on application performance?
Because SAN-based clusters are typically optimized for capacity rather than performance, SANs can slow performance of highly transactional applications, such as SQL Server and Oracle databases. SAN performance can lag behind new, faster server CPUs, causing idle server time, slower application response times, and a potentially costly loss of productivity. Because SANLess environments access disk installed locally, there is no latency and no loss of performance in servers with even the fastest CPUs. As noted above, you can also use SANLess clusters with cost-efficient local high performance SSD storage.

Can you use a SANLess cluster in a virtual server environment?
Yes you can. In fact, SANLess clusters eliminate the limitations imposed when you use traditional shared storage based technology for clustering VM’s in a virtual environment. When using traditional shared storage clustering in virtual server environments, you need to use using Raw Disk Mapping (RDM) or Pass-through disks. This is a complex storage setup that limits desirable virtual machine functionality and mobility such as VMotion/Live Migration. In contrast, SANLess clustering supports all of the flexibility and agility offered in the virtual environment. It does this by allowing you to use virtual disks native to the hypervisor such as VMDK’s or VHDs thereby eliminating the need for RDM or Pass-through configurations.

What if I already have a SAN?
If you have already made the investment in SAN storage, you can continue to use it and protect your business critical applications with a SAN-based cluster. However, you may want to extend the cluster up into a cloud environment as a simple, cost-efficient way to protect your business critical applications from disasters without the need for a remote data center or disaster recovery site. Replicating from a cluster node connected to a SAN to another cluster node in the cloud can allow you to configure a multi-site WSFC failover between both environments with nodes in more than one geographic location for protection against local, regional and national disasters.

What is SIOS SAN and SANLess clustering software?
SIOS SAN and #SANLess clustering software provides the flexibility to build clusters your way to protect your choice of Windows or Linux environment and in any configuration (or combination) of physical, virtual and cloud (public, private, and hybrid) without sacrificing performance or availability. SIOS’ unique #SANLess clustering allow you to configure clusters with local storage, eliminating both the cost and the single-point-of-failure risk of traditional shared-SAN storage.

Jmelnick 4x6 hi res IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with SIOS Technology: SANS based vs. Cloud Clusters

Jerry Melnick
COO, 
SIOS Technology Corp.

Jerry Melnick is responsible for defining corporate strategy and operations at SIOS Technology Corp. (http://www.us.sios.com), maker of SIOS SAN and #SANLess cluster software. He more than 25 years of experience in the enterprise and high availability software industries. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Beloit College with graduate work in Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Boston University.

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IT Briefcase: Survey Results from SIOS Technology Reveal Providing High Availability and Disaster Protection for SQL Server Poses a Variety of Challenges for Enterprise Data Centers

July 2, 2014 by <a href="/tag/it-briefcase/">IT Briefcase</a>

SIOS Technology Corp. maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced the results of its premier SQL Server High Availability survey of large corporations in the United States (76%) and Europe (9%). The survey elicited responses from 191 IT professionals across a wide range of vertical industries to understand current trends and challenges related to providing high availability (HA) and disaster protection (DR) for SQL Server.

Specific areas covered by the survey, included identifying the most important challenges to providing HA and DR; understanding the costs of HA and DR for SQL Server; and determining the plans and priorities for 2014/2015.

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