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HA and DR must haves for Cloud Based MS-SQL – Podcast

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland and SIOS Technologies are teaming up for a webinar live on October 29th at 12pm CT or ON Demand if you miss the live presentation on the HA and DR must haves for cloud-based MS-SQL. In this podcast,…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SIOS Technology
Posted in Podcast

SQL High Availability at low-cost Cloud prices

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Many organizations are considering the cloud for enhancing SQL application availability and business continuity. This is especially true for those small to medium sized businesses that don’t have the budgets to implement redundant data center infrastructure to support high availability…

Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SIOS Technology, Software Defined
Posted in Blog

Webinar: HA and DR must haves for Cloud Based MS-SQL

Posted on October 7, 2014 by George Crump

Businesses are looking to the cloud to either be an extension of their current MS-SQL application infrastructure (Hybrid Cloud) or they are considering having their MS-SQL applications fully hosted in the cloud. A key consideration in either scenario is how…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SIOS Technology
Posted in Webinar

New requirements for Enterprise Disk Backup

Posted on September 29, 2014 by George Crump

For a disk backup appliance to be deemed “enterprise” it had to be able to perform well and provide more capacity expansion than non-enterprise class appliances, while still being almost as cost effective as its mid-range brethren. But with the…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Deduplication, Disk, High Availability, I/O, NEC, Recovery, Scaling, Virtualization
Posted in Article

Are All-Flash Arrays ready for All Primary Data?

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Flash has been making its way into data centers primarily as an accelerant to existing workloads. Most of that adoption has been in the form of a hybrid use case, the combination of flash and hard disk drives. As we…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, High Availability, Kaminario, performance
Posted in Video

Storage Q&A: StarWind and StorageSwiss Answer Hyper-V Storage Questions

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

A company needs to upgrade its IT equipment to keep up with increasing storage demand. The question is, “Will the new technology that’s supposed to save me money actually cost me money?” Joining Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst in our recent…

Tagged with: High Availability, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, SAN, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtual, Virtual machine
Posted in Storage Q&A

Hyper-V Software-Defined Storage

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Colm Keegan

During a recent Storage Switzerland webinar, the audience was asked what their plans were for implementing Hyper-V into their environment. 50% of the respondents stated that they plan to exclusively deploy Hyper-V into their data center while another 25% responded…

Tagged with: HDD, High Availability, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtual, Virtual machine
Posted in Blog

Server Side Storage, defined for Hyper-V

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Many businesses are adopting hypervisor platforms like Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology to reduce their server virtualization total cost of ownership. Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) and corporations with multiple remote office locations, in particular, are leveraging the economies of…

Tagged with: High Availability, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, SAN, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtual, Virtual machine
Posted in Product Analysis

Clustered HA Storage for the masses

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Many organizations rely on large databases, such as SQL Server, SAP, and Oracle, to run their most mission critical business applications. But the cost of implementing application high availability (HA) and continuous data protection through a clustered storage infrastructure in…

Tagged with: Cluster, High Availability, SAN, SANLess, Shared Storage, SIOS, SQL
Posted in Briefing Note

Webinar – Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy

Posted on April 2, 2014 by George Crump

Watch the On Demand Webinar “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” IT professionals are looking for a way to use cloud storage for more than just a backup repository. They want these resources to fully participate in…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud NAS, High Availability, Hybrid, Migration, Scalability, Webinar
Posted in Webinar