Jazz, Pakistan’s digital operator, faced the challenge of fragmented data storage and cumbersome manual backup processes due to the lack of centralized storage management within its hypervisor environment. The company required cost-effective shared storage to resolve its scalability and performance concerns. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Jazz centralizes storage management, streamlines its backup processes, and enhances disaster recovery preparedness, thus ensuring uninterrupted telecommunications services delivery to its clients. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3y
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StarWind Success Story: Centralize storage management with StarWind Virtual SAN
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Proxmox's New Feature: Easy VMware VM Integration
The latest Proxmox release offers a straightforward way to import VMware virtual machines (VMs). If you're looking to streamline your IT processes, check out our detailed guide by Paolo Valsecchi, a System Engineer, for StarWind with step-by-step instructions. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3v
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Join StarWind at the Digital Enterprise Show (DES) 2024!
StarWind is excited to announce its participation in one of the world’s major events on digital transformation and AI - the Digital Enterprise Show 2024 (DES), held on June 11-13, 2024, at the Malaga Conference Centre (FYCMA), Spain. Explore how StarWind HCI products incorporate cutting-edge technology for predictive analytics and enhanced customer experience. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3s
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Proxmox vs. VMware: The ultimate comparison
Looking for the optimal virtualization platform for your business? Our latest article on Proxmox vs. VMware by Oleg Pankevych, Pre-Sales Engineer at StarWind, provides a thorough comparison, highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases for each platform. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3p
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StarWind Success Story: Ensure scale-out clustering with StarWind VSAN
Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), a leading state-owned power utility, faced scalability limitations and hardware/software lock-ins in its IT infrastructure, hindering effective performance and storage capacity expansion. The organization required a cost-effective storage solution to ensure seamless integration and future scalability. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), EGAT leverages existing Windows servers to overcome scalability issues and hardware/software lock-ins and achieves seamless integration and future scalability through scale-out clustering. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3m
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VMware Revolution: Workstation and Fusion Now Free for Personal Use
VMware has just made its flagship desktop virtualization products, Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro, free for home users. Whether you're a student, developer, or tech enthusiast, this opens up endless possibilities.
Check out the latest article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind to take advantage of this offer. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3j -
StarWind Success Story: Deploy a high availability cluster with StarWind VSAN
Auchan Magyarorszag Kft., the Hungarian link within the international Auchan hypermarket brand, faced the challenge of implementing new point of sale (POS) systems in its 19 hypermarkets without risking downtime in monetary transaction operations. The company required a cost-efficient shared storage solution for 2-node Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization clusters. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Auchan Magyarorszag Kft. achieves constant uptime and fault tolerance in a 2-node scenario and ensures high-speed performance and seamless operations critical for transactional environments in all 19 locations without exceeding budget constraints. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3g
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Hardware Virtualization Explained
Just started exploring the world of Hardware Virtualization? Discover how this technology helps organizations make better use of their hardware resources, and dive into the principles of virtualization technology, its benefits, types, and use cases in the new article by Anton Vovchuk for StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3d
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StarWind Success Story: Build a hyperconverged infrastructure with StarWind VSAN
Farmers & Merchants Bank, a U.S.-based financial institution, faced reliability issues and failed attempts at implementing Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) on new servers. The bank required a shared storage solution to enhance performance and reduce hardware dependencies. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Farmers & Merchants Bank addresses its infrastructure challenges, improves reliability and performance across its primary and disaster recovery sites, ensures the desired amount of IOPS, and saves $60,000 in upfront hardware expenses. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3a
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Switching from VMware? Explore XCP-ng 8.2 10-Year LTS
With VMware's recent pricing changes, it's time to explore affordable, open-source alternatives. In a new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for #StarWind, learn about the latest XCP-ng features, seamless VMware transitions, and new #XenOrchestra tools. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/37
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StarWind Success Story: Create a hyperconverged infrastructure with StarWind
Vertisoft, a Canada-based technology solutions provider, faced significant challenges with its IT infrastructure, including limited capacity, performance bottlenecks, and a lack of resilience, hindering operational efficiency and scalability. The company needed an advanced storage virtualization solution to achieve high availability (HA). By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Vertisoft builds a hyperconverged IT infrastructure, ensures HA and fault tolerance, and achieves business operations 24/7, thus providing continuous access to critical data and applications. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/34
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Microsoft Windows Server 2025: Key Features and Licensing Changes
Check out our recently recorded live webinar by Sr. Solutions Engineer Anton Vovchuk to get an in-depth look at Windows Server 2025. From this webinar, you will learn about its evolution from Windows Server 2022, new licensing options, storage upgrades, Hyper-V advancements, PowerShell and Active Directory updates, and more.
Watch the webinar recording now: https://starwind.com/s/31
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Git Submodules in Azure DevOps - Part II
Ready to streamline your Azure DevOps projects? Part II of our guide by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft MVP, for StarWind on Git submodules in Azure DevOps is now available. This article walks you through the process of managing submodules, from addition to removal, in a practical lab environment. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/2Y
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StarWind Success Story: Build a hyperconverged infrastructure with StarWind
Accel Entertainment, a distributed gaming operator in the United States, faced the lack of redundancy for mission-critical guest virtual machines (VMs), jeopardizing its operational stability. The company required a solution that would allow it to move to hyperconvergence. By deploying StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Accel Entertainment builds a hyperconverged infrastructure, ensures uninterrupted gaming operations, enhances reliability, and fortifies its business continuity. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/2V
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StarWind Success Story: Create a highly available infrastructure with StarWind
Sears Home and Franchise, a U.S.-based division of Sears, encountered a challenge in establishing reliable shared storage, leading to a lack of high availability and mediocre performance. The company needed a cost-effective solution to build a hyperconverged IT infrastructure. By implementing StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Sears Home and Franchise creates a hyperconverged environment with user-friendly management, ensures optimal performance and fault-tolerant operations, and improves its overall operational efficiency. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/2S
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Navigating Hybrid IT: Microsoft Entra Joined and Hybrid Joined Devices Explained
Thinking about hybrid infrastructure? Our latest article by Brandon Lee, an IT Consultant, for StarWind explores the pros and cons of Microsoft Entra joined and hybrid joined devices. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/2P
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Life after VMware: Virtualization with Proxmox
Ready to explore the next frontier in virtualization technology? Join our webinar to discover Proxmox VE as an alternative to VMware. Learn about its advantages, challenges, and strategies for enterprise adoption. Register now: https://starwind.com/s/2M
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RAIDs Made Easy: Understanding RAID 0, 1, 10, and 01
Discover what RAID is and explore the basics of RAID levels like RAID 0, 1, 10, and 01, along with their pros and trade-offs, in the latest article by Vlad Karaiev for StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/2J
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StarWind Success Story: Create a hyperconverged infrastructure with StarWind
ITCS S.A., a Paraguay-based IT services company, faced the challenge of outdated infrastructure lacking centralized storage, hindering scalability and maintenance tasks. The company required a cost-effective solution to seamlessly integrate storage with its VMware hypervisors, streamlining scalability and enhancing operational efficiency. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), ITCS S.A. builds a hyperconverged IT infrastructure, facilitates efficient maintenance and scalability, and saves more than $35,000 on its IT operational expenses. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/2G
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Comparing HCI Storage Performance: DRBD/LINSTOR vs Ceph vs StarWind VSAN
Dive into a detailed performance comparison of DRBD/LINSTOR, Ceph, and StarWind VSAN on Proxmox VE. Explore all the benchmark results in the new article by Volodymyr Khrystenko for StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/2D