Dell Live Optics is a tool that can help you gather and neatly visualize comprehensive data on your IT resources status. You'll be able to see the workload intensity they experience clearer and act on it timely. This video will explain how to properly run the solution, collect the necessary data, and use the resulting reports to understand if and where you need modernization.
Watch the StarWind video to develop a better understanding of your IT environment thanks to Dell Live Optics.
Azure Blueprints has been available in preview for more than a year now, but not many people have gotten around to understand its use. It’s a neat tool for creating a “blueprint” of a repeatable set of Azure resources to organize environments quickly. Define your preferences so that routine resources management becomes easier.
Read the post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about using Azure Blueprints to help manage your subscriptions by giving them base and connectivity.
If your business is in finance, you already know that to manage time, money, and resources, you need to keep your applications highly available and performing at the required level. Scalability, high availability, performance, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and data backup policy are vital in the financial industry, so don't miss your chance to keep them alive and well.
Read our rubric Finance to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
Azure Front Door, a scalable and secure entry point for web applications and global HTTP(s) load balancer, has been available in GA over a year now. To that end, you can use the tool for multiple versatile scenarios. Use it, for instance, with Web/Mobile Apps, Cloud Services, and VMs – or combine it with on-prem services for hybrid deployments and smooth cloud migration.
Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a three-time Microsoft MVP, about Azure Front Door and the benefits you can receive from the versatility of its services.
If you are a VMware ESXi 7.0 user, you might bump into something called the Purple Screen of Death (PSOD). This happens when the VMkernel of your host experiences a critical error and terminates all running VMs. Dump Collector, a VCSA support tool, enables saving the VMkernel memory to a network server to recover it if needed.
Read the article by Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr) to learn about the benefits of ESXi Dump Collector and how to configure the tool in your environment.
Yet another appreciation from the customers of StarWind Virtual SAN! TrustRadius is a platform where validated professionals leave product reviews and, based on their opinion, StarWind VSAN received the Top Rated 2020 badge in the software-defined storage category. We are thankful for your trust and we’ll continue to deliver upon it.
Check out what exactly our customers have to say and maybe you’ll find the answers to some of the deliberations you’ve been having.
Ubiquiti recently released its Unifi Dream Machine Pro (UDM-Pro), which is a multifaceted hardware platform. It executes various features, including firewall, switch, router, SDN, or camera management. Unifi Controller, a software, allows you to handle your Ubiquiti network and even establish a VPN with Azure for hybrid scenarios.
Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, explaining how to establish a VPN between your Azure and UDM-Pro for more environment versatility and diversity.
An IT infrastructure of a healthcare organization relies heavily on its equipment, for many reasons. This equipment, in turn, requires high quality standards to keep such environment up and running. Electronic medical record (EMR) contain patients' medical information, CT scanners perform medical imaging, and it all needs high availability, fault tolerance, and storage cost-efficiency. Now you have a possibility to improve your IT infrastructure at a reasonable cost!
Read our rubric Healthcare to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
Nobody knows what is needed for an IT infrastructure better than IT companies. Although one may find it odd that in such conditions said companies still seek IT services, it makes perfect sense. IT industry is oriented explicitly at their clientele and meeting their needs at maximum effort is the industry's top priority. Find out how to make sure that your feet don't fail you!
Read our rubric Information Technology to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved:
The video reveals cluster architectures that most probably will lead to production environment failure and data loss. It also dwells on the details of the most common mistakes that are made during the building of production clusters and reviews the most common unwanted configurations. While people always talk about best practices, it’s useful to know the worst ones as well.
Watch this StarWind video to learn how to avoid bad production cluster designs and secure your mission-critical data from 100% failures now.
There isn’t always time or possibility to mess with scripts. Thanks to Azure Logic Apps, you can automate and orchestrate your infrastructure or application deployment without writing a single line of code. And Microsoft Graph can be used to assist with exposing REST APIs and client libraries to access data on a wide set of Microsoft 365 services.
Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a three-time Microsoft MVP, about using Microsoft Graph and Azure Logic Apps to ease workflow orchestration across your enterprises.
A unique position of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) grants both advantages and disadvantages. Initially, it is not efficient for such business to deploy resource-hungry and overwhelmingly extended infrastructure, which turns out to be too costly. However, on the other hand, StarWind helps to solve issues such as significant application downtime, old hardware, diverse power cycling, ransomware vulnerability, and inefficient backup solutions with building an IT environment ideally suited for each separate case at a reasonable cost.
Read our rubric Other to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
Time is of the essence and, sometimes, routine stuff takes away from important tasks. That is why StarWind introduces automation for the deployment of StarWind VSAN for vSphere. You can now pre-set the desired configurations for your virtual machine (VM) deployment, thus making more room for creativity and productivity.
Read the guide by Alex Bykovsky, StarWind’s solutions architect, explaining how to achieve automated VM deployment in StarWind VSAN for vSphere.
VIP Technology Solutions Group, an American full-service provider of technology solutions, had an IT environment with individual non-clustered servers and Microsoft Hyper-V on top. A lack of a failover cluster affected the integrity and safety of the company’s data. The company was looking for an affordable solution for building a hyperconverged fault-tolerant IT infrastructure with proactive support included. With StarWind, VIP Technology Solutions Group got a hyperconverged turnkey solution for creating a failover cluster as well as the ability to host customer data with high availability always maintained.
Find out how VIP Technology Solutions Group creates a fault-tolerant IT environment at an affordable price and gains confidence in private cloud hosting with StarWind
VMware Carbon Black is a next-gen cloud-native endpoint protection platform (EPP). This solution doesn't only detect threats on the workstation level, analyze them in the cloud, and take action. It is a complex system for monitoring network connections and applications that exhibit abnormal activity, ensuring your desktop infrastructure security.
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization pro, that discusses all the details of Carbon Black and what benefits it can bring to your business' cybersecurity.
Connection throughput is key to ensure that your demanded IOPS volumes are processed at the necessary speed. While StarWind VSAN allows for HA with two nodes already, networking diversification and configuration is key to ensuring it. Knowing your IOPS and correct connectivity infrastructure will let you have the best experience.
Read the article by Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr) to learn some useful tips about StarWind VSAN two-node direct connect networking setup.
Azure Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure is Microsoft’s attempt to build a hybrid HCI solution that’s aimed to be an everything-in-one. Among others, the new release will have simplified deployment via Windows Admin Center and Azure Portal, a specialized host operating OS, improved resync duration for S2D, and a one-click stack upgrade.
Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, dwelling on the most exciting updates that are to come with the new version of Microsoft Azure Stack HCI.
If your browsers and email aren’t secured properly, then your network and users aren’t either. Properly securing your organization’s daily browsing activity can hinder the majority of cybersecurity compromisation cases. Issues like filtering, sender policy framework (SPF), browser types and browsing limitations are all detrimental.
Read the article by Benoit Voirin, a cybersecurity consultant, explaining what sections of browser and email protection to consider in order to tighten your cybersecurity routine.
Krida Wacana Christian University (UKRIDA), an Indonesian higher education institution, had an IT infrastructure with 4 physical servers dedicated to server virtualization and VMware vSphere on top. When building a virtualized environment, the organization used a Direct Attached Storage (DAS) approach that made the servers independent from each other and thus did not allow having high availability (HA) functionality and load balancing for effective server resource utilization. The university was looking for a shared storage solution that would provide HA and eliminate downtime even in the event of an incident. With StarWind, UKRIDA receives much-coveted HA for its mission-critical academic applications and services and load balancing for efficient resource utilization.
Find out how Krida Wacana Christian University creates a highly available IT environment with zero downtime at an affordable price with StarWind.
Integrating DocuSign, an electronic signature service, into the automated K2 platform can be highly effective for your business. In previous K2 versions, the integration was painful: there was no complete Management UI and you had to be quite a pro to successfully do that. Today, everything is way simpler but no less rewarding.
Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, a K2 and Microsoft specialist, about configuring DocuSign in your K2 version 5.4.