Margaret Hoagland, VP Global Sales & Marketing of SIOS Technology, detailed the company’s 2026 vision for high-availability (HA) clustering, emphasizing its role in protecting mission-critical, stateful applications like SAP HANA, SQL Server, and EHR systems. As infrastructure density rises and regulatory pressures mount, SIOS’s architecture provides a resilient alternative to traditional shared storage. By utilizing an active-passive model that monitors the entire stack—network, storage, and OS—SIOS ensures near-zero RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) through automated failover. A key highlight is the SANless cluster configuration, which uses block-level replication to synchronize local storage, eliminating the SAN as a single point of failure (SPoF) and allowing the secondary node to serve as a risk-free “sandbox” for security validation and patching.
Margaret also outlined a robust channel-first strategy tailored for MSPs and GSIs. With modular Application Recovery Kits (ARKs) that automate complex failover scripts for specific workloads, SIOS simplifies deployments across hybrid and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). She introduced a flexible partner program designed for rapid scale, featuring a specialized 3-to-4-day onboarding period and comprehensive technical and marketing support. By bridging the gap between local failures and regional disasters, SIOS is positioning its partners to deliver “five-nines” (99.999%) availability as a foundational service for the modern, AI-driven enterprise.
