When MS-SQL hits the performance wall, flash storage has become the “go to” problem solver. The high performance and low latency of the technology can eliminate many of the storage performance issues that a MS-SQL environment may face. But IT…
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What’s your MS-SQL Flash Strategy?
When IT professionals need to boost performance, they turn to flash based storage solutions. This is especially true for MS-SQL environments where the payoff for flash use can be substantial in terms of performance gain. The high IOPS and low…
Podcast: Understanding your Flash choices for MS-SQL
There are a lot of options for MS-SQL administrators looking to improve storage performance and most of them feature flash. Recently I sat down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Sumeet Bansal – Senior Solutions Architect, Databases…
ChalkTalk Video: Can Windows hurt Flash Performance?
Today when an IT Pro faces a performance problem on a Windows-based server running applications like MS-SQL, Exchange and SharePoint, they often turn to a flash-based storage solution. Those IT professionals may be surprised to hear they should try something…
Briefing Note: SIOS Provides High Availability for Azure based MS-SQL
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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Webinar: Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL? Server-side, hybrid or all-flash?
For many organizations MS-SQL is the backend to many of their mission critical applications. The environment provides a cost effective foundation for an organization to develop custom designed solutions that drive the business forward. As MS-SQL has risen in importance,…
Five Reasons to run MS-SQL on All-Flash
Applications are often the key service that data centers provide to their organizations. The speed at which these applications can respond to the user’s requests is often THE measurement of how IT is perceived by the organization. As a result…
Briefing Note: DH2i Brings Containers to Windows Server
Most data centers are not 100% virtualized, in fact most hover around a 50% virtualization level. The remaining physical servers are often business critical servers running applications based on Microsoft SQL or Exchange. IT Planners are looking toward “container” technology…
Tagged with: Cloud, DH2i, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Metadata, MS-SQL, ROI, SQL, Virtualization, VMware
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Does Replication equal DR Readiness?
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
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Podcast – Overcoming the MS-SQL HA Barriers
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
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