The flawless operation of your Office 365 infrastructure directly depends on the updates installed on time. An SSL certificate provides secure communication between Office 365 components. If it expires, your infrastructure becomes unprotected. This is where the Azure AD Connect tool comes in. With its help, you can update the SSL certificate for both AD FS and WAP Servers quickly and easily.

Read the article by Paolo Valsecchi, a System Engineer, to find out how to update the SSL certificate successfully with the Azure AD Connect tool.

The Department of Finance (The Republic of the Philippines) which formulates a revenue policy and provides funding for government programs required a shared storage solution for protecting their data and ensuring fault tolerance (FT). Any problems in the DOF’s IT infrastructure could lead to financial data loss and, accordingly, reputational losses. StarWind helped secure an organization’s virtualized environment and achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT) by providing a shared storage solution.

Find out how the Department of Finance achieved government level data protection and IT infrastructure optimization with StarWind.

Hallam Medical Ltd, a UK Primary Care recruitment specialist, had already outgrown their IT infrastructure of Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster on top of HP Fibre Channel Enterprise SAN. The latency the company had was through the roof.

Learn from this success story how Hallam Medical Ltd builds new infrastructure on a working Production system with zero downtime with StarWind.

StarWind Log-Structured Write-Back Cache (LWC): Transaction-aware Write-Back Cache (WBC) unlocks stellar write performance without need to sacrifice data integrity.

The problem of latency in write operations with traditional cache technology becomes a daily hassle which can lead to a bottleneck in writing and data loss. What is more, the cache cannot ensure consistent performance under intense virtualized workloads which are prone to random I/O. 
StarWind VSAN feature optimizes the data flows for your underlying storage, thus revolutionizing the way data is cached. Tailored for intense virtualized workloads, StarWind LWC provides accelerated write speed and increased reliability by effectively combining the fast memory like flash or RAM and a tiny portion of your storage.

Ensure the desired resiliency and high performance for your apps with StarWind LWC!

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Split Digital LLC, a U.S. company that provides cloud service solutions with high requirements to customization and security levels, switches to hyperconvergence from StarWind to get extreme reliability and uptime. 
Before the StarWind deployment, its infrastructure contained active/passive cluster which deprived from sufficient storage speed rates. 
Another issue was a necessity to easily increase capacity on demand without extra licenses burden. The company did consider several solutions, but they could not provide enough flexibility, or offer reasonable price and handy management.

Learn how Split Digital LLC benefits from StarWind and gets all necessary features that mega corporations use for providing cloud services.

In October 2018, SharePoint Server 2019 became available to the public. Compared to SharePoint 2016, the new release attempts to prepare the user for the hybrid route and move to the cloud.

Do you need to design and build your SharePoint based solutions and infrastructures with the cloud in mind, even if you still install on-premise version?

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, StarWind IT engineer, to find out how to install SharePoint 2019 on top of Windows Server 2019.

The golden rule for the safety of your data is as follows: always back up and distribute copies to different locations. However, the choice of backup environments can be accompanied by high-cost issues, security concerns, the risk of service interruption/termination, and so on. Storing your data in the cloud seems to be the most optimal solution. But even here you may encounter certain troubles such as the need to pay for all services, subscriptions, service plans, and configuration of a public cloud storage provider.

Do you want to know about a backup storage solution that eliminates the drawbacks of costly backup processes and meets regulatory data archival and retention requirements?

Read the article by Oleg Pankevych, StarWind Pre-Sales engineer, to find out how about Wasabi + VEEAM + StarWind formula and how it meets the 3-2-1 backup strategy.

A webhook is a method of extending or changing the behavior of a web page or web application using custom callbacks. In the case of SharePoint, webhooks allow you to track all changes that are on the site as well as receive notifications about specific events.

With Azure Functions, you can host your SharePoint webhooks in a romp!

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to call an Azure Function webhook for SharePoint list items.

Previously, South Gibson School Corporation, the largest public school in Gibson County, Indiana, was running an aged non-virtualized environment. Management of the system with multiple servers, each of those dedicated to a separate service, was rather exhausting. Optimization and modernization were badly needed. Instead of just replacing old hardware items the company decided to let StarWind break into its existing IT infrastructure and do its job.

Learn more about gains of South Gibson School Corporation owing to StarWind.

PowerApps is a corporate service that allows you to create, connect, and share business applications with your team. This happens in minutes and from any device. With PowerApps, you not only optimize the work of your team but also contribute to the implementation of innovative ideas in business activities. And guess what? You can create a PowerApps application by yourself for a SharePoint list. Have no idea how?

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to create a PowerApps application for a SharePoint list with Azure Function.

Are you a VMware or Hyper-V user, or maybe a system administrator who wants to deploy a stretched cluster in your IT environment? Do you experience any difficulties in this process or want to keep your data secure under any unforeseen circumstances, including hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes? We will answer all your questions and tell tips and tricks on how to build the cluster between different separate geographical locations and do not lose the mission-critical data. A stretched cluster allows combining servers into a single system, providing high availability (HA) and load balancing. With its help, you can easily migrate your VMs from one place to another and make sure of the safety of your data even during an earthquake of 12.0 scores on the Richter scale!

Learn from the upcoming free webinar about a stretched cluster differentiation, replication options for it, different deployment scenarios, ways to secure data and prevent split brain.

Daboula, an IT consulting company, used obsolete servers in the failover cluster. The existing infrastructure required redundant storage at the physical level and very different hardware. Still, it would not ensure uptime in case of failure.

Discover from this success story how StarWind helped Daboula to facilitate efficient storage utilization and avoid downtime.

Traffic in the network is similar to the movement of cars on the roads. If there are no traffic lights and a traffic controller or the number of cars is too large, a traffic jam will arise. How about user traffic incoming to your website? The situation is similar. To ensure high availability and high performance, you need an efficient traffic manager. Azure Traffic Manager (ATM) is a DNS-based traffic load balancing subsystem that allows you to distribute traffic between services in all Azure regions optimally, ensuring a high level of availability and responsiveness. Productivity, priority, balance, multitasking - these characteristics fully describe Azure Traffic Manager. Are you still losing valuable time in information packets traffic jams?

Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a System Engineer, to find out how to create an Azure Traffic Manager profile and “geo-route” incoming traffic to your website for better performance and availability at the following link.

VMware Horizon View is a VMware product that aims to improve the infrastructure of the virtual desktop as well as support bring your own device (BYOD) programs. Most administrators back up virtual desktops, but very few pay enough attention to backing up the Horizon View configurations. At the same time, a backup of a VMware Horizon View environment configuration is a critical part of the work of your virtual desktop infrastructure that guarantees its integrity. Moreover, if you any have problems with a large View Manager configuration that can last from several hours to several days, your Horizon View configurations need a safe harbor badly. So, don’t wait for a second!

Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a Virtualization technology professional, to find out about backup and recovery of VMware Horizon View 7.x. configurations at the following link.

Each virtual machine (VM) is a collection of resources provided by the infrastructure layer, usually organized in a pool of resources and assigned dynamically (or in some case statically) to each VM. VMs “see” a subset of physical resources in a form of virtual hardware components defined usually by the certain minimum elements. Adding hardware components can be useful in some cases, or they can be necessary for performing some basic operations, like, for example, installing the guest OS where a video driver, a keyboard and a mouse device are needed to use the remote console. That is why you should be aware of which hardware resources can be hot-add and which hot-remove.

Read the article by Andrea Mauro, a virtualization expert and architect, to find out how to change hardware resources on a running VM at the following link

Have you ever heard of the possibility to run containers without a need to manage servers or clusters? Containers allow packing application code, configurations, and dependencies into a single object. Standardly for their run, it’s necessary to select, configure, and scale clusters of VMs. Now imagine that you don’t need to do all this. You don’t have to choose server types and optimize cluster packing. AWS Fargate is a computer engine for Amazon ECS that makes your work with containers as easy as possible. With AWS Fargate, you don’t interact with servers or clusters, but simply concentrate on designing and building your applications, and not on managing the infrastructure that supports them. Not bad, right?

Read the article by Gary Williams, a virtualization, storage, and Windows systems administrator, to find out how to get and run AWS Fargate containers at the following link

Azure Migrate is an Azure tool that helps to plan the transition from VMware to Azure. Are you considering the possibility of lift-and-shift migrations? Or maybe are you at an early stage of migration assessment? The Azure Migrate service will help you assess whether your on-premises machines are suitable for working in Azure, get size recommendations for VMs, and estimate the cost of running on-premises machines in Azure. Do you have any doubts?

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant, to find out how to migrate from VMware to Azure with Azure Migrate, discover on-prem assets, and create an assessment at the following link

How to keep data always secure with a stretched cluster? Watch StarWind video

Are you a VMware or Hyper-V user, or maybe a system administrator who wants to deploy a stretched cluster in your IT environment? Do you experience any difficulties in this process or want to keep your data secure under any unforeseen circumstances, including hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes? We will answer all your questions and tell tips and tricks on how to build the cluster between different separate geographical locations and do not lose the mission-critical data. A stretched cluster allows combining servers into a single system, providing high availability (HA) and load balancing. With its help, you can easily migrate your VMs from one place to another and make sure of the safety of your data even during an earthquake of 10.0 scores on the Richter scale!

Learn from the video about a stretched cluster differentiation, replication options for it, different deployment scenarios, ways to secure data and prevent split brain.

Upgrading VMware vSphere infrastructure may seem a boring, tedious, and sometimes even difficult process. But that’s not true at all if you know about three steps you need to follow in order to avoid difficulties in updating. These steps are called pre-upgrade, upgrade, post -pgrade phases. What should be done at the pre-upgrade stage? How to choose the most appropriate upgrade scenario for your infrastructure and architecture? What steps should be taken after completing the infrastructure upgrade?

Read the article by Vladan Seget, IT and Virtualization consultant, to find answers to all these questions and learn about the easiest way to upgrade your VMware vSphere infrastructure at the following link

Kellstrom Defense Aerospace, a U.S. Medium Business that deals with the distribution of military airplane components had clustered storage organized in a computer and storage separated scenario. This architecture was already aging and hard to manage. Much hardware was underutilized.

Learn from this case study how StarWind helped Kellstrom Defense Aerospace to optimize their infrastructure based on existing hardware.