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Webinar: What’s Your 2019 NVMe Strategy?

Posted on November 16, 2018 by George Crump

The flash optimized NVMe protocol has been on the market for over a year and the technology is available in several forms. NVMe, both storage and networking (NVMe over Fabrics) is more expensive than the typical SAS based solution and…

Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, Western Digital
Posted in Webinar

ChalkTalk Video: Using the 3-2-1 Rule To Protect Against Ransomware

Posted on August 29, 2017 by George Crump

Protection in the modern data center is changing. IT must provide backup to disk and an instant recover capability to meet the recovery expectations of application owners. But this rapid protection also puts data at risk to a ransomware attack.…

Tagged with: Backup, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-V, LTFS, LTO, Object Storage, Quantum, Replication, Tape, Veeam, VMworld2017, WAN
Posted in Video

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

Posted on April 6, 2015 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Azure, Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, Replication, SAN, SANLess, SIOS Technology
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Analyst Blog: Data Protection Workshops become Design-shops in 2015

Posted on February 11, 2015 by George Crump

Our second year of Data Protection Workshops, in conjunction with TechTarget/Storage Decisions, are underway and coming to a city near you. The theme of this year’s sessions will be breaking the rules of data protection to meet the stricter and…

Briefing Note: Ravello enables traditional Data Centers to leverage the Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2015 by George Crump

In our recent article “How Traditional Data Centers Should Use The Cloud” we discussed the concept of starting the application development process in the cloud and then migrating that application on-premises when development is complete. This approach saves the startup…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Metadata, Ravello, SaaS, Software as a service, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMDK
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Does Replication equal DR Readiness?

Posted on January 8, 2015 by George Crump

In our recent webinar, “Flexible HA and DR for Virtual Server and Cloud Environments”, a majority of attendees indicated that replication was their sole method of providing high availability and protecting from disaster. While copying data to a secondary storage…

Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS, SQL Server, Virtual Server
Posted in Blog

Podcast – Overcoming the MS-SQL HA Barriers

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Users and business line managers demand that their applications are available all of the time. That’s very expensive and complex. To preview their webinar on the barriers to HA are Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and Tony Tomarchio from SIOS. Click on…

Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS, SQL Server, Virtual Server
Posted in Podcast

How to get Facebook-Like Application Availability

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Colm Keegan

IT organizations are under pressure to deliver an always on experience to their users. In the Facebook and Google era, internal and external customers expect critical business applications to be available at all times. This means that planned or unplanned…

Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS, SQL Server, Virtual Server
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Webinar – Flexible HA and DR for Virtual Server and Cloud Environments

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Moving business critical applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server, to virtual server and cloud environments, requires high availability and a solid disaster protection plan. The question often asked — will implementing that protection eliminate the cost savings and configuration flexibility…