Name: Deploying stretched clusters for automatic failover on Azure Stack HCI
Start: 2020-08-13T18:00:00Z
End: 2020-08-13T18:01:00.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

DataON is a hybrid cloud computing company focused on delivering Microsoft Azure Stack HCI solutions, on-premises storage systems, intelligent edge appliances, and cloud-based Azure services. Our company is helping enterprises and customers who have made the "Microsoft choice" to modernize with IT with Microsoft applications, virtualization, and data protection through a complete and turnkey experience. With over 650 HCI clusters and 150PB of storage deployed, DataON enterprise-level solutions are designed to provide the highest level of performance, manageability, and security offered. DataON is a Microsoft Gold Partner, Microsoft Cloud Service Provider, and an Intel Platinum Partner.

As organizations modernize their IT infrastructure, many are moving away from the traditional three-tier architecture to hyper-converged infrastructure.  One of the key datacenter trend is the push towards software-defined infrastructures and hybrid cloud computing. Software-defined infrastructures move data centers away from discrete hardware-defined systems and towards a software-defined environment that can run on industry-standard hardware. By 2023, 70 percent of enterprises will be running some form of hyper-converged infrastructure, up from less than 30 percent in 2019, according to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Hyper-converged Infrastructure.  The Microsoft Azure Stack Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) simplifies compute, storage, and networking, and provides high-performance, cost-effective, and easily scalable virtualization that runs on industry-standard hardware.

In this webinar, DataON’s Howard Lo and DataON customer Pronet Solutions along with technology partners Western Digital and Nvidia will talk about what you need to know about these trends, and how DataON and Microsoft can help you with your IT modernization journey. Learn how to deploy your scale-out storage workloads based on Azure Stack HCI with high-bandwidth networking from Nvidia and capacity platforms from Western Digital. Combine unmatched storage and performance with integrated systems to centralize your organization’s fire shares.

Architect Hybrid Flash Azure Stack HCI Solutions for Multi-Workload Environments

Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is a new hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) operating system delivered as an Azure service that provides the latest security, performance, and feature updates. Deploy and run Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs) in your datacenter or at the edge using your existing tools, processes, and skill sets. 

Integrated systems for Azure Stack HCI are a new way to experience Azure Stack HCI. With integrated systems, everything is included: 

• Azure Stack HCI
• Server nodes with the highest reliability powered by Intel
• Cluster monitoring & management from Windows Admin Center and DataON MUST
• 1-click cluster updating with minimal disruptions to your cluster
• Microsoft Azure services
• World-class deployment and support services from DataON and Microsoft

In this webinar, Microsoft's Cosmos Darwin will discuss the new Azure Stack HCI and the integrated system experience and Pathway Services' Nathan Callison will share his experience deploying the new Azure Stack HCI.

Get a Premium HCI Experience with Integrated Systems for Azure Stack HCI

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) uses server hardware to run desktop operating systems and software programs on a virtual machine. It offers the flexibility of running traditional desktop workloads on centralized servers. VDI can help keep sensitive company applications and data in a secure data center and accommodate a bring-your-own device policy. VDI has become the de facto standard for supporting remote and branch workers. 

Windows Virtual Desktop is a type of VDI from Microsoft that is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. It’s the only VDI that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus, and support Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments. Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.

You can also run VDI on-premises with Azure Stack HCI. It allows you to use remote desktop services, highly available virtual machines, and integrated scalable storage to support your large-scale virtual implementations. Connect virtual desktops to the Azure update management solution to control your enterprise VDI configuration in the cloud. 

In this webinar, Numecent’s Doug Pfiffner and DataON’s Henry Fu will discuss deploying and migrating VDI workloads on Windows Virtual Desktop and Azure Stack HCI.

Deploying & Migrating VDI Workloads on Windows Virtual Desktop & Azure Stack HCI

SQL Server helps business solve modern data challenges by helping you apply intelligence across all your data. It allows you to take advantage of breakthrough scalability and performance to improve the stability and response time of your data base without making app changes. It provides high availability for mission-critical applications, data warehouses, and data lakes. 

Now you can deploy and manage high-performance, scalable SQL Server running on hyperconverged infrastructure with Azure Stack HCI. Run your applications with high availability and the flexibility of virtualization while using Azure Backup and Azure Blob Storage to back up and restore your organization’s data. If you’re already a Windows Server 2016/2019 Datacenter edition customer then you already have the capability to run Azure Stack HCI.

Azure Stack HCI is designed to take advantage of the latest technologies, including Intel® Optane™ technology. A system with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory can produce 76% more IOPS performance over a system without Intel® Optane™ persistent memory.

In this webinar, Microsoft’s Brian Carrig will discuss the benefits of virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server on Azure Stack HCI and Intel’s Ken LeTourneau will explain how Intel® technology boosts SQL Server performance.

Get the Benefits of Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server on Azure Stack HCI

Deploy your scale-out storage workloads based on Azure Stack HCI with high-bandwidth networking from Mellanox and capacity platforms from Western Digital. Combine unmatched storage and performance with validated hardware to centralize your organization’s fire shares. The Azure File Sync feature keeps the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of an on-premises file server while replacing an aging SAN or aggregating files from multiple sources. See how The Canadian Museum of Human Rights deployed an Azure Stack HCI hybrid cloud solution with scale-out storage for its interactive multimedia exhibits, online experience, archival media, surveillance video bulk storage, and data center backup.

Scale-Out Storage Workloads on Azure Stack HCI, with Mellanox & Western Digital

So you’re already familiar with hyper-converged infrastructure and how it simplifies compute, storage, and networking, and provides high-performance, cost-effective, and easily scalable virtualization that runs on industry-standard hardware.

And you already know that with a Windows Server 2019 datacenter license, you already have the capability to run Azure Stack HCI without additional software or incurring additional costs.

But how does Azure Stack HCI work in the real world with real customers?

In this webinar, we’ll discuss how Bradley, a national law firm, deployed an Azure Stack HCI solution powered by the latest Intel technologies for its primary data center and remote offices. It used an Intel Select Solution for Azure Stack HCI with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ technology to greatly reduce SQL backup times and VDI startup times, while increase performance and response times of their business-critical applications.


Speakers:

Jake Smith – Director, Data Center Technologies, Intel
Howard Lo – Vice President, Sales & Marketing, DataON

Azure Stack HCI and Intel Technologies in the Real World with Real Customers

Data is at the heart of every business or organization. When employees and customers can’t access the data and applications they expect, it damages your brand, your employee’s productivity, and your bottom line. 

In today’s 24x7 business, organizations need to protect their data from a myriad of threats, from ransomware and data theft to physical disasters, data corruption, and hardware failures. Ransomware alone cost businesses over $7.5B in the United States in 2019.

Microsoft Azure Stack HCI provides hyper-converged infrastructure that consolidates software-defined compute, storage, and networking into one cluster to provider high-performance, cost-effective, and easily scalable virtualization that runs on industry-standard hardware. It’s designed to withstand multiple hardware failures without loss of storage availability so users, apps, and VMs continue to run without disruption.

Veeam is the leader in backup solutions, providing a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud, and securing your data. Its solutions are designed to seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Azure and Hyper-V.

In this webinar, Strategic Online System’s Benjamin Clements and Veeam’s Andy Perkins will discuss how deploying a Microsoft and Veeam solution can help protect your organization from ransomware and other data threats.

Protect from Ransomware with Data Governance & Business Continuity Solutions

Storage Review recently reviewed a DataON solution for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI with 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. It was their first experience with an Azure Stack HCI solution, and they gave its Editor’s Choice award, calling it “the fastest mid-market 4-node cluster we’ve seen.” 

Microsoft Azure Stack HCI consolidates software-defined compute, storage, and networking into one cluster to provide high-performance, cost-effective, and easily scalable virtualization that can run on industry-standard hardware. It can be used for edge, ROBO, data center, hybrid and cloud deployments.

And if you’re already a Windows Server 2016/2019 Datacenter edition customer then you already have the capability to run Azure Stack HCI.

Azure Stack HCI is designed to take advantage of the latest technologies, including Intel® Optane™ technology. A system with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory can produce 76% more IOPS performance over a system without Intel® Optane™ persistent memory.

In this webinar, Storage Reviews’ Brian Beeler shares his results from testing an Azure Stack HCI solution and Intel’s Alessandro Goncalves will explain how Intel® technology helps Azure Stack HCI achieve incredible performance numbers.

Azure Stack HCI with Intel Optane: An Unbiased Review from Storage Review

Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is a member of the Azure Stack family that delivers hyper-converged infrastructure with hybrid cloud capabilities built in. It includes Hyper-V for efficient virtualization of Windows and Linux, Storage Spaces Direct for fast enterprise-grade storage, and Azure-inspired software-defined networking.

Stretched clusters is a feature that provides native disaster recovery and business continuity to clusters in Azure Stack HCI. It allows you to stretch Azure Stack HCI systems between multiple sites using Storage Replica replication and automatic VM failover.

Azure Stack HCI is designed to take advantage of the latest Intel technologies. An Azure Stack HCI solution with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory was able to achieve 13.7M IOPS.

In this webinar, Microsoft’s John Marlin and Intel's Marcelo Pinheiro will discuss Azure Stack HCI and deploying stretched clusters for automatic failover on Azure Stack HCI.

Deploying stretched clusters for automatic failover on Azure Stack HCI

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Storage Spaces Direct

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