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Yahoo Finance: SIOS Webinar Will Describe How to Leverage the Benefits of Azure Cloud Computing Using Cloud and Hybrid Configurations for High Availability

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SAN MATEO, CA–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2015) – SIOS Technology Corp. www.us.sios.com, maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced a live webinar featuring Microsoft Cluster MVP William Bressette that will describe how to leverage the benefits of Microsoft Azure cloud computing using innovative cloud and hybrid configurations for high availability and disaster recovery.

Titled, “Deploying Applications in Azure without Configuration Limitations,” this webinar will be held on Thursday, April 16 at 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT. To register, please visit: us.sios.com/2015-04-webinar/

In this webinar, Microsoft MVP William Bressette will describe innovative cloud and hybrid configurations that companies are using to leverage the benefits of Azure cloud computing. He will discuss ways to overcome factors that may limit configuration flexibility, such as shared storage clustering for high availability protection. Learn how to deploy important applications, such as SQL Server in on-premises to cloud, cloud to cloud, and all cloud configurations without sacrificing high availability, performance, or disaster protection. The webinar will conclude with a live Q&A session.

About the Speaker
William Bressette is a Microsoft Certified Professional since 1998 and a Microsoft Most Valued Professional in Failover Clustering and he holds technical certifications from a number of vendors including Juniper Networks as a JNCIS and HP as a Master ASE in High Availability and Clustering Solutions. William is a Network Architect with a professional services company in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). For the last 15 years, he has worked with medium enterprises on networking, design and upgrade projects.

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
Beth Winkowski
Winkowski Public Relations, LLC for SIOS
Phone: 978-649-7189
Email: Email Contact

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Morning Star: SIOS Webinar Will Describe How to Leverage the Benefits of Azure Cloud Computing Using Cloud and Hybrid Configurations for High Availability

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SAN MATEO, CA — (Marketwired) — 04/09/15 — SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com), maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced a live webinar featuring Microsoft Cluster MVP William Bressette that will describe how to leverage the benefits of Microsoft Azure cloud computing using innovative cloud and hybrid configurations for high availability and disaster recovery.

Titled, “Deploying Applications in Azure without Configuration Limitations,” this webinar will be held on Thursday, April 16 at 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT. To register, please visit: us.sios.com/2015-04-webinar/

In this webinar, Microsoft MVP William Bressette will describe innovative cloud and hybrid configurations that companies are using to leverage the benefits of Azure cloud computing. He will discuss ways to overcome factors that may limit configuration flexibility, such as shared storage clustering for high availability protection. Learn how to deploy important applications, such as SQL Server in on-premises to cloud, cloud to cloud, and all cloud configurations without sacrificing high availability, performance, or disaster protection. The webinar will conclude with a live Q&A session.

About the Speaker
William Bressette is a Microsoft Certified Professional since 1998 and a Microsoft Most Valued Professional in Failover Clustering and he holds technical certifications from a number of vendors including Juniper Networks as a JNCIS and HP as a Master ASE in High Availability and Clustering Solutions. William is a Network Architect with a professional services company in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). For the last 15 years, he has worked with medium enterprises on networking, design and upgrade projects.

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
Beth Winkowski
Winkowski Public Relations, LLC for SIOS
Phone: 978-649-7189
Email: Email Contact

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Storage Switzerland – Briefing Note: SIOS Provides High Availability for Azure based MS-SQL

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Data centers of all sizes are looking to the cloud to perform computational workloads like databases and other applications. They are expecting a cloud provider to either run the entire workload in the cloud or make capacity available for bursting to the cloud, or they want to leverage the cloud for business continuity of an on-premises copy of an application. There are two key challenges to the transition from private on premises data center to cloud; support of more traditional applications and providing enterprise class high availability of cloud based applications.

Recently SIOS Technology, providers of SAN and SANless clustering technology, announced they have received full certification for Microsoft Azure, making their SIOS DataKeeper software the only solution certified to enable the use of Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering in Azure. Azure provides support for MS-SQL in the cloud and SIOS DataKeeper allows you to use traditional Windows Server Failover Clustering in Azure to makes it highly available Microsoft is offering the SIOS DataKeeper software in its Azure Marketplace.

No NoSQL, MS-SQL Server Please

While NoSQL is a rapidly growing database standard, more traditional data centers count on databases like Microsoft SQL Server. They don’t have the time, desire and in some cases the capability to convert. The good news is that some cloud providers can deliver SQL as an application in the cloud, most notably, Microsoft’s own Azure. Azure is an open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform and obviously it runs SQL quite well.

Cloud Applications High Availability

Another challenge is creating an HA environment for each of the above scenarios in a way that does not require changes to well-proven processes, such as HA clusters with Windows Server Failover Clustering. This is a problem because the cloud doesn’t have the shared storage infrastructure that traditional clustering solutions need.

SIOS DataKeeper fills that gap. SIOS DataKeeper is a SANless cluster solution that leverages replication and application awareness to enable WSFC to provide high availability in a cloud (or a physical or virtual environment where SAN-based clustering is impractical or impossible). The solution can be deployed directly into Azure so that replication and HA can be done within or across cloud regions. It can also be deployed to provide a DR instance of an on-premises SQL application by enabling you to put a cluster node(s) in the cloud. The result is that no matter where the organization is on its cloud journey the SIOS solution can make sure the application is as well protected as it is in a traditional physical environment.

You can learn more about how to put SQL in the cloud by watching our on-demand webinar “HA and DR must haves for Cloud Based SQL”.

StorageSwiss Take

The journey to the cloud will be different for each organization that embarks on it. But most organizations will face the challenges of supporting legacy applications and providing high availability. SIOS, in conjunction with Microsoft’s Azure, is an example of a solution that solves both problems and should speed an organization’s journey, while keeping it reliable.

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Virtual Strategy Magazine: Interview with Sohamn Chatterjee, Senior Business Systems Architect, Spirent Communications

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Virtual Strategy Magazine (VSM): Can you provide some background on Spirent and the nature of your business?
Sohamn Chatterjee (SC): Spirent is a global leader in communications test and measurement with 20 locations in 15 countries worldwide. We enable our customers’ success in development and deployment of communications networks, services and applications. Our broad solutions portfolio addresses data centers, cloud computing, virtualized environments, security, high speed Ethernet networks and services, and infrastructure test optimization.

VSM: How would you categorize Spirent’s IT philosophy as it relates to customer service and your use of innovative technologies as a competitive advantage?
SC: The Spirent IT department is continuously looking for ways to improve efficiency and maintain the highest quality of service to customers. For example, we recognized that moving our operations to the Amazon cloud would provide a variety of benefits. We saw an opportunity to gain significant flexibility, scalability, and efficiency by moving to the Amazon EC2 cloud. This move would let us grow quickly and to apply additional IT resources as our needs change.

VSM: Once you decided to move the cloud, what were your top priorities? What kept you awake at night?
SC: For the move to Amazon EC2 to be successful, our IT staff needed to provide high availability for our Siebel Gateway Server and File Server application environments. We could not move important applications to the cloud until we were sure that we would not be putting them at risk for downtime or data loss. The traditional shared storage clusters that we would have used in a physical environment require shared storage – which is not available in EC2. We needed an affordable, easy-to-deploy solution that would support native Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC).

VSM: With these objectives in mind, what choices did you make?
SC: We chose SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition to protect our business critical applications in the cloud. The SIOS software enabled us to create a traditional Windows Server Failover Cluster in AWS without the need for shared storage. We built two-node clusters in the Amazon EC2 cloud using standard WSFC and added SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software as an ingredient. The SIOS software uses efficient, real-time replication to synchronize storage between instances in different AWS Availability Zones, making them appear to WSFC as a SAN. The SIOS software provided intuitive configuration wizards, enabling us to deploy applications in our SANLess clusters quickly and easily. Complete integrations with WSFC, meant our IT staff did not have to change system administration or add complexity. Because the SANLess clusters use local storage, there was minimal performance overhead and fast application response times.

VSM: Can you provide an example of how you were able to provide High Availability assurance in the cloud with SIOS’ SANLess clustering software?
SC: We were able to configure the clusters just as we would in a WSFC environment so we did not need specialized skills or a SAN administrator. The SIOS software enabled us to implement our move to the AWS cloud efficiently. The SIOS software provided the protection we needed to move our important applications to the Amazon EC2 cloud. Since our cluster deployment, we have not experienced any downtime or data loss in the Siebel or File Server environments. We have also found the SIOS SANLess clusters make failover/failback testing fast and easy. We are very pleased with the SIOS software and the protection our SIOS SANLess clusters provide for both our Siebel Gateway Server and File Server application environments in the Amazon EC2 cloud.

VSM: Who is SIOS Technology and do their solutions work just in virtualized environments? What if I have a hybrid infrastructure?
SC: SIOS delivers software solutions that provide application availability and disaster. SIOS SAN and SANLess clustering software provides the flexibility to build clusters your way to protect your choice of Windows or Linux environment – and any configuration (or combination) of physical, virtual and cloud (public, private, and hybrid) storage – without sacrificing performance or availability. SIOS’ SANLess clustering solution eliminates both the cost and the single-point-of-failure risk of traditional shared-SAN storage.

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Network World: New products of the week 04.06.15

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Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Riverbed and APImetrics.

SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software for the Azure Marketplace
Key features: SIOS DataKeeper is the only solution certified to enable the use of Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering in Microsoft Azure cloud. More info.

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