SIOS
Technology Corp., an industry pioneer in providing
IT Resilience through intelligent application availability, today announced at
PASS Summit (Booth #517) Azure Certified SIOS Datakeeper Cluster Edition is
available in the
Azure
Marketplace and Azure Stack Marketplace. With this
announcement, SIOS offers further integrations with Microsoft Azure delivering
a high availability (HA) solution for critical applications running in Azure -
and now Azure Stack environments, for a seamless hybrid computing experience. Easy
to install Quickstart images are available today and will soon be
delivered in both the Azure and Azure Stack marketplaces.
SIOS
is one of the only solutions that enables enterprises, MSPs and OEMs to create
a SANless high availability cluster in Azure and Azure Stack using Microsoft
Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). Integrating SIOS DataKeeper software
with WSFC enables customers to quickly and easily protect business-critical
Windows environments from downtime and data loss.
"Our
twenty years of expertise in the design and implementation of SQL Server high
availability solutions has helped many businesses concerned about downtime and
meeting SLAs get their most important apps into Azure and protect them from
cloud outages," said Michael Bilancieri, VP, Product, SIOS Technology.
"Additionally, we can help Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 customers easily
migrate to Azure and Azure Stack and take advantage of free extended security
updates for SQL Server 2008 with the assurance of high availability and
disaster recovery protection for their critical applications."
Talal Alqinawi, Sr. Director, Azure Product Marketing
at Microsoft Corp. said, "The IT landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift as
companies are moving from large central datacenters to cloud and hybrid cloud
environments. We designed Azure from the ground up to be hybrid, and with
offerings like Azure Stack that let companies build and run Azure services from
their own data center, we are committed to delivering an optimal cloud
experience. We're pleased SIOS selected Azure to deliver this HA solution in
Azure and Azure Stack environments."
For more information on SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition in
Azure and Azure Stack, visit here: https://us.sios.com/solutions/cloud/azure/