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June 26, 2015: SIOS Sponsoring the Nashville SQL Server User Group’s June Meeting

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SIOS is proud to sponsor the Nashville SQL Server User Group’s June meeting. If you’re in the area, I highly recommend joining. This month’s keynote speaker will be SQL Server MVP, Kevin Kline.  SQL User Groups are a great place to network, learn and meet other SQL professionals.

 

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June 26, 2014
11:30a – 1:00p

Location: Nova Copy  | 15 Lindsley Avenue, Nashville, TN 37210 (Map: bing | google)
Cost: This is a free event – Food and Drinks will also be provided at no cost.

Visit the Nashville SQL Server User Group’s homepage for more information.

May 27, 2015: Live Clustering 101 Webinar: Live Q&A – The Human Impact of SQL Server High Availability in Virtual Environments

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To provide the high availability (HA) protection your mission critical applications require, your SQL Admins may have to work closely with VM Admins . In this month’s Clustering 101 webcast, Microsoft MVP, Dave Bermingham will answer your questions and provide key insights to help understand the implications of introducing HA to your SQL Server environment for you and your admin professionals.

You can participate before the event by tweeting your questions to @SIOSTech using #Clustering101 and of course bring your own questions and comments.

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Live Q&A about High Availability in the cloud: Bring Your Questions
Date: April 29, 2014
Time: 10:00a PDT — 1:00pm EDT

About Clustering 101 Series

Clustering 101 is a webinar series hosted by Microsoft MVP, Dave Bermingham focused on addressing the numerous facets of clustering for high availability, data replication and any combination there of. This series will air monthly, the fourth Wednesday of the month at 10:00a PST / 1:00p EST.

About Dave Bermingham

David Bermingham is recognized within the technology community as a high availability expert and has been honored by his peers by being elected to be a Microsoft MVP in clustering since 2010. David’s work as director, technical evangelist at SIOS Technology Corp., has him focused on Microsoft high availability and disaster recovery solutions as well as providing hands on support, training and professional services for cluster implementations. David holds numerous technical certifications and draws from more than twenty years of experience in IT, including work in the finance, healthcare and education fields, to help organizations design solutions to meet their high availability and disaster recovery needs. Learn more at www.us.sios.com

May 19, 2015: Live Webinar: Is HA pitting SQL Database Admins against VM Admins? Keeping the Peace with SANLess clusters.

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Moving SQL Server to a VM environment has a very real impact on the IT staff involved. To provide the high availability (HA) protection this mission critical app requires, SQL Admins may have to work closely with VM Admins. If performance suffers, the relationship can quickly become contentious. In this informative webinar, SQL Server MVP and VMware vExpert, David Klee will review four common use cases that pit SQL Admins against VM Admins when SQL Server HA is involved. He will also describe a simple way for SQL Server admins to provide HA without the need to involve VMware admins.

This webinar is interactive so come ready to ask your questions, add your comments, and join the discussion.

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Date: Tuesday May, 19th 2015
Time: 10:00a / 1:00p (Pacific/Eastern)

About David Klee
David Klee is a Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert with over seventeen years of IT experience. David spends his days handling performance and HA/DR architecture of mission-critical SQL Servers as the Founder of Heraflux Technologies. His areas of expertise are virtualization and performance, datacenter architecture, and risk mitigation through high availability and disaster recovery. You can read his blog at davidklee.net, and reach him on Twitter at @KleeGeek.

Data Center Post: Epicure Selections Achieves High Availability and Disaster Recovery Protection for Critical SQL Server Applications with SIOS Sanless Clustering Software

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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. SANLess Clustering

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 enrolment 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. “The business is growing and we needed to ensure our website delivers an excellent user experience for our customers and consultants,” said Born.

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. “We didn’t want the added expense of moving to SQL Server Enterprise Edition if we could provide HA and DR with Standard Edition,” Born said.

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.”

About the Author:

Jerry Melnick
COO, SIOS Technology Corp.

Jerry Melnick (jmelnick@us.sios.com) is responsible for defining corporate strategy and operations at SIOS Technology Corp., 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.

Read this article at Data Center Post

March 28, 2015: SIOS Sponsoring and Presenting at SQLSaturday Silicon Valley

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Image -- SQLSaturday Silicon Valley #375Register Now for SQLSaturday Silicon Valley
When: Saturday, March 28, 2015 (8:00am – 5:00pm)
Where: Microsoft  – 1065 La Avenida, Building One, Mountain View, CA, 94043
Cost: $10 to cover the cost of lunch, the event itself is free

SIOS is proud to be a platinum sponsor at SQLSaturday Silicon Valley. Be sure to visit the SIOS table for your chance to learn more about our SAN and #SANLess solutions, enjoy some candy and drop off your raffle ticket for your chance to enter our end of day $100 Amex raffle. There are a number of great tracks so be sure to plan your schedule well in advance (schedule). Also be sure to join our “Clusters Your Way.™” panelist discussion presented by Microsoft MVPs Denny Cherry and Joey D’Antoni. The details are as follows.

Lunch Session

Clusters Your Way Discussion Panel — A real-world take on flexibly protecting SQL Server and beyond
Presented by: Denny Cherry, Joey D’Antoni and SIOS Technology
When: 1:00pm
Where: Room – Saturn (located on the second floor)

In this unique lunch session Microsoft SQL Server MVPs Denny Cherry and Joey D’Antoni will discuss their own personal experiences for creating and implementing a cost effective high availability and disaster recovery solutions. They’ll be covering the protection of Tier-1 applications in the cloud, getting the most out of SQL Server Standard Edition, and of course be there to answer your own clustering questions. Attend and you could win – up to $100.

About SQLSaturday Silicon Valley

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held March 28, 2015 at the Microsoft Technology Center – 1065 La Avenida, Building One, Mountain View, CA, 94043. Speakers include several well-known professionals, SQL Server Masters, trainers, mentors, conference presenters and book authors from all over the world, the US, and our local community. These are many of the same industry leaders who present many of the same sessions at the PASS Global Summit and other international conferences. Lunch, snacks and raffle prizes are included for registered attendees. Registration begins at 7:30. Sessions run throughout the day from 8:30 to 5:30. Admittance to this event is free, but there is a small $10 fee to help cover the cost of lunch – not pizza. Please register soon as seating is limited, and invite friends and colleagues to join us. Please check this site as we get closer to the event for session scheduling and other announcements.