Today John Sterrett (blog | twitter) and I are announcing a new SQL PASS Virtual Chapter dedicated to High Availability and Disaster Recovery topics. 

The schedule for this virtual chapter meetings is the second Tuesday of each month at 12pm Central time. Our first meeting will be held next Tuesday, February 11, at noon Central with Ryan Adams (blog | twitter) speaking on SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups Live Deployment. To RSVP for this free event, register here at GoToWebinar!

Please follow the Twitter tag @SQLPASS_HADR for announcements of upcoming sessions, and check out the home page for the virtual chapter at hadrvc.sqlpass.org for details on the future sessions. Make sure to add this new virtual chapter to your PASS dashboard so you get the announcements as they happen!

If you have not participated in the virtual chapters before, check them out here! These virtual user group chapters are a tremendous resource for knowledge and networking in the SQL Server community. I do my best to participate in this new chapter, as well as the virtualization and the performance chapters.