Don't Fail Me Now

The conversation dives into how modern video management platforms like Milestone XProtect are scaling, the role of partner ecosystems, and how high availability solutions, including those from SIOS Technology, help ensure continuous visibility and resilience. If you’re building or managing video systems in regulated or high-risk environments, this episode highlights why designing for failure is no...

Devin Haynes, Product Owner at SIOS Technology, discusses how the SIOS product roadmap is shaped by customer experience, market trends, and emerging technologies such as automation and AI, and how it all requires trusted high availability solutions. From balancing innovation and maintenance to exploring predictive high availability, this episode offers an inside look at how resilient software is b...

Ninety-seven percent of environments are virtualized. Forty percent are hybrid. That complexity makes SQL Server licensing harder to manage than most leaders realize. In this episode, Shawn M. Upchurch, Founder & CEO of UpSearch, explains why traditional SQL Server audits fall short, how visibility gaps form, and what continuous governance looks like in practice. If you want to avoid unexpecte...

In this episode of Don’t Fail Me Now, Dave Bermingham speaks with Sandi Hamilton, Director of Product Support at SIOS Technology, about building and leading a global 24x7 customer support team. They discuss prioritizing critical outages, maintaining calm under pressure, collaborating across engineering and product management, and why the human element remains essential even in the age of AI. https...

Security and compliance platforms are designed to safeguard your organization, but what ensures their availability when infrastructure fails? In this episode of Don’t Fail Me Now, host Dave Bermingham is joined by Justin Chandler, Senior Solutions Engineer at Cimtrak / Cimcor, Inc., to explore how file integrity monitoring, compliance automation, and high availability work together to eliminate bl...

Harry and Kelly take listeners inside the SIOS partner ecosystem, from cloud alliances with Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud to meaningful collaborations with strategic ISVs like Exabeam, Milestone, and Cimcor. They discuss how SIOS onboards and supports new partners, share lessons learned from years of building successful integrations, and highlight where partner-driven innovation is headed next—...

High availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) are often misunderstood.  Greg Tucker unravels common customer misconceptions about HA/DR—from overestimating what cloud providers guarantee to misjudging the complexity of solutions like SQL Server Always On Availability Groups. Greg shares real examples of avoidable mistakes, explains how SIOS helps customers rethink their HA/DR assumptions, and...

SIOS DataKeeper delivers fast, reliable block-level replication for high availability (HA) without relying on shared storage. Joey D’Antoni breaks down the real-world problems DataKeeper solves for businesses modernizing the HA architecture. Joey compares DataKeeper to traditional SAN-based clustering, explores key considerations for cloud deployments, and explains how DataKeeper enables resilient...

Application Recovery Kits (ARKs) play a critical role in application-aware high availability (HA). Cassius Rhue demystifies ARKs, explaining how this software add-on extends high availability beyond basic infrastructure protection by delivering intelligent, application-aware recovery. Cassius walks through real-world use cases, highlights the industries that benefit most from ARKs, and clears up c...

Linux high availability (Linux HA) is essential for protecting mission-critical Linux workloads. Aaron West breaks down why Linux remains a leading choice for high availability deployments and how SIOS LifeKeeper delivers reliable, application-aware protection for Linux-based environments. Aaron covers common challenges customers face when building Linux HA clusters, walks through a typical SIOS L...

Margaret Hoagland breaks down the real business impact of downtime and why a strong high availability and disaster recovery strategy is no longer optional. We explore the biggest risks organizations face, a real-world outage with major consequences, and how teams can balance cost and risk when planning for resilience. Margaret also clarifies the difference between HA and DR, highlights emerging di...