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CNBC: SIOS and Storage Switzerland Webinar Featuring Analyst George Crump Unveils HA and DR Must-Haves for High Availability and DR Protection in the Cloud

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SIOS Technology Corp., 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.

SIOS, SIOS Technology, SIOS DataKeeper, SIOS Protection Suite, Clusters Your Way, and associated logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of SIOS Technology Corp. and/or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contact

Winkowski Public Relations, LLC for SIOS
Beth Winkowski, 978-649-7189
bethwinkowski@US.SIOS.com

 

October 25, 2014: SQLSaturday #352 Sydney

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Register Now for SQLSaturday SydneyImage -- SQLSaturday Sydney #352 SIOS is proud to sponsor SQLSaturday Sydney. Our Australian partner Providence Solutions Australia will be on-site at the SIOS table to answer all your HA and DR questions. Be sure to join Microsoft Expert Atul Tharpar for his lunch session “Clusters Your Way” for your chance to win. Also be sure to drop off your raffle ticket to enter our “End of Day Raffle” for your second chance to win!

About SQLSaturday Sydney

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. SQLSaturday Sydney will be held on Saturday October 25th at the University of Sydney and you will hear from experts including Australian MVPs Grant Paisley, Julie Koesmarno and Victor Isakov on the SQL topics you can’t learn from books. In the “big data” era your skills have never been more relevant nor likely more in need of sharpening. Register Now for SQLSaturday Sydney! When: Saturday, October 25, 2014 Where: School of Physics, University of Sydney – Physics Rd, Camperdown NSW 2050, Australia

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Computer Technology Review: Survey Says Providing High Availability and Disaster Protection for SQL Server Poses Challenges for Enterprise Data Centers

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In many enterprise data centers, SQL Server is playing an increasingly important role in running core business operations, including customer service, order processing, payroll, accounting, and many more. For these organizations tolerance for SQL downtime and data loss is approaching zero. However, according to a recent survey by SIOS Technology Corp., providing the high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) needed to protect SQL Server from downtime presents a variety of challenges, including the rising cost of SQL licensing (71 percent), the cost of SAN storage (68 percent), and SAN configuration limitations (69 percent).

These challenges will only worsen as more applications are moved from physical server environments to virtual, cloud and hybrid cloud environments, where traditional SAN-based clusters are impractical. A simple change, such as adding SANless clustering software to a traditional cluster configuration can provide the flexibility and cost-saving features needed to address HA and DR challenges today’s SQL Server environments.

Continue reading at: Computer Technology Review

Tech Target: Mavis Tire goes SANLess with SIOS DataKeeper

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With DBAs rewarded for server performance and SAN specialists rewarded for server capacity, there can be a tug of war. Mavis Tire goes SANLess with SIOS DataKeeper. SIOS Technology releases a survey about high availability and SAN.

An IT department can become a battleground when different job functions are given competing goals. Performance and capacity are a set of competing goals that turn up again and again. These goals can pit SQL Server database administrators (DBAs) against storage area network (SAN) specialists. When pressure comes down from management and both start to scramble, they find they’ve been asked to achieve incompatible goals.

“SAN guys are measured by how much they can say they’ve saved with storage space,” said Geoff Hiten, principal SQL Server consultant for management and consulting firm Intellinet Corp. With SQL Server databases, space is money, and so the incentive is strong to push SAN specialists to optimize for greater capacity. According to Hiten, this means SAN specialists have to “micro-optimize for their areas.” That micro-optimization can reduce overall database performance.

In contrast, DBAs are judged based on the performance they can get out of a server. Since the DBA manages the server in its entirety, having the server optimized for something other than performance or a balance of performance and capacity becomes their responsibility. This leads to contention between the SAN specialist, who has been given the incentive to favor capacity over performance, while the DBA needs performance before capacity to do his job. But favoring capacity at the expense of performance becomes a problem for everyone, not just the DBA, when it slows down the server.

Continue Reading at: http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/feature/Mavis-Tire-goes-SANless-with-SIOS-DataKeeper

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

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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