This session covers real-life customer scenarios on how they achieve high availability and disaster recovery (regional and distant) today and how they plan to leverage SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn for their deployments. Hear about the lessons learned, best practices, and operational procedures. The content is not merely coverage of available functions and features of Microsoft SQL Server, but based on various customers' practical real-life production deployment scenarios for mission critical Tier-1 systems. This session is a customer panel and will have 4 customers as co-speakers: Michael Steineke ; David P. Smith ; Ayad Shammout ; and Thomoas Grohser . #TEDBI315