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Storage Switzerland: SQL Server High Availability at Low-cost Cloud prices

October 22, 2014 by <a href="http://storageswiss.com/author/connyank/">Colm Keegan</a> Leave a Comment

Many organizations are considering the cloud for enhancing SQL Server high availability and business continuity. This is especially true for those small medium-sized businesses that don’t have the budgets to implement redundant data center infrastructure to support high availability for their most critical SQL Server business systems. But the challenge is many application clustering technologies are not capable of integrating with cloud infrastructure. As a result, IT may be left holding the bag by having to separately manage local and remote SQL server high availability clustered application infrastructure.

Click to register for the webinar “HA and DR Must Haves for Cloud Based MS-SQL”
There are no shortage of clustering solutions for MS-SQL. Many of these technologies have been around for years and are proven, however, some of these offerings were not designed to interoperate in a private or hybrid cloud environment. In fact, many of these solutions require the use of local shared storage like SANs, to enable application failover across local hosts. And since cloud storage is not “SAN-like”, it cannot be recognized by these clustering products as an application failover storage target.

To get around this issue, IT administrators need to manage the local failover cluster separately, replicate data to a secondary data center for DR purposes and then migrate VMs to the second site when a failure occurs. Alternatively, they could stand-up a totally redundant “cold stand-by” server infrastructure in their secondary site or rent server CPU resources from a cloud provider. In any of these scenarios, the business is going to incur added costs, added complexity and added business risk.

On the other hand, clustering solutions that can be used in a SAN or SANless environment and support local and remote application failover, regardless of the DR topology, (Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud) give businesses the opportunity to protect their critical systems, simplify operations and avoid overspending on infrastructure.

By taking a software-defined approach to SQL application clustering, IT organizations can use low-cost commodity storage in their primary data center location and replicate their critical data to cost-effective cloud storage resources to lower their DR total cost of ownership. The key, however, is for these solutions to fully automate the application failover process, regardless of the underlying storage infrastructure, to help ensure application uptime and help maintain application service levels.

To learn how to attain enterprise class SQL application availability with low-cost commodity cloud infrastructure, join us for a webinar on October 29th, “HA and DR Must Haves for Cloud Based MS-SQL”.

Click To Register: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/5583/129981

Filed Under: News and Events, News posts Tagged With: #SANLess Clusters for SQL Server Environments, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Azure, Clusters Your Way, disaster recovery, High Availability, Microsoft SQL, SQL Server High Availability

SIOS, Storage Switzerland Webinar: Must-Haves for HA & DR in Cloud

October 22, 2014 by sios2017

SAN MATEO, CA – October 22, 2014 – SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com), maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced a joint, live webinar featuring Storage Switzerland President and Founder George Crump and SIOS Technology Director of Field Engineering Tony Tomarchio. George and Tony will discuss the best practices for selecting a method of protecting Microsoft applications and data from downtime in an Amazon Web Services, Azure or other cloud environment.

The live webinar “HA and DR Must-Haves for High Availability and DR Protection in the Cloud” will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 10:00a PST / 1:00p EST.

To register, please visit here: http://storageswiss.com/2014/10/07/ha-and-dr-must-haves/

In this webinar, attendees will learn:

  1. The advantages of a hybrid cloud or full cloud SQL Server environment
  2. The limitations of cloud environments when it comes to providing HA and DR
  3. The difficulty in implementing SQL Server in a “hybrid” fashion
  4. How to overcome these limitations to provide full HA and DR

George Crump, president and founder of Storage Switzerland, has more than 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the U.S., he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS and SAN. Prior to founding Storage Switzerland he was CTO at one the nation’s largest storage integrators where he was in charge of technology testing, integration and product selection.

At SIOS Technology, Tony Tomarchio is responsible for defining and delivering technical pre-sales services, support and best practices to SIOS customers, prospects and partners. Tony has more than a decade of experience providing systems management and high availability solutions to enterprise customers.

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, Press Releases Tagged With: Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Azure, Cloud, Clusters Your Way, High Availability, Microsoft SQL, Press Release, SANLess Clustering

SQL is Causing Problems in the Data Center

July 18, 2014 by <a href="http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/07/sql-causing-problems-data-center">Nick Booth</a> Leave a Comment

Study says high availability and disaster recovery are becoming more difficult to manage as software license costs rise

Image -- Servers -- SQL is Causing Problems in the DatacenterCloud computing vendor SIOS Technology said data centers are facing problems running high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) on SQL Server systems.

It conducted a study that found operators face escalating costs of software licenses and with storing and managing the databases.

The service provider, which polled 191 IT staff, found that improving SQL server performance is a priority for nearly half the industry – 43%.

But finding money for such upgrades could be a problem, with a majority of respondents saying they also have unexpected budget problems.

The main challenges in providing HA and DR for SQL were found to be the rising cost of SQL licensing (experienced by 71% of users), the rising cost of SAN storage (68%) and SAN configuration limitations (69%).

Continue reading at DatacenterDynamics.com

Filed Under: News and Events, News posts Tagged With: #SANLess Clusters for SQL Server Environments, Clusters Your Way, Microsoft SQL

Storage Newsletter: Providing HA and Disaster Protection for SQL Server Poses Variety of Challenges

July 16, 2014 by <a href="http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/market-reportsresearch/providing-ha-and-disaster-protection-for-sql-server-poses-varity-of-challenges-sios-technology/">StorageNewsletter.com</a> Leave a Comment

SIOS Technology Corp., maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, announced the results of its SQL Server HA survey of large corporations in the United States (76%) and Europe (9%).

The survey elicited responses from 191 IT professionals across a range of vertical industries to understand current trends and challenges related to providing HA and 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.

Continue reading at StorageNewsletter.com

Filed Under: News and Events, News posts Tagged With: #SANLess Clusters for SQL Server Environments, #SANLess Clusters for Windows Environments, Clusters Your Way, Microsoft SQL

Data Center Post: SIOS Technology Releases Premier SQL Server High Availability Survey Results

July 11, 2014 by <a href="http://datacenterpost.com/2014/07/2891.html">DataCenterPost.com</a> Leave a Comment

SIOS Technology just issued 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.

Improving SQL performance was rated as the highest priority for the next 12 months (43 percent) followed by improving SQL Server disaster protection (recovery point and recovery time objectives) (24 percent). This emphasis on DR is further reflected by 40 percent who agreed or strongly agreed that “Our SQL DR strategy needs improvement.”

Continue reading at DataCenterPost.com

Filed Under: News and Events, News posts Tagged With: #SANLess Clusters for SQL Server Environments, #SANLess Clusters for Windows Environments, Clusters Your Way, Microsoft SQL

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