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NCOL Internet, a Canadian custom web application provider, had an IT infrastructure consisted of on-premises Windows servers kept in sync with Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) and Hyper-V on top. The company's IT budget was burdened by time-consuming and costly operations associated with managing many DFS installations. With StarWind, NCOL Internet gets a cost-effective and easy-to-handle solution to its problems saving over $30K on business development and growth.

Find out how NCOL Internet builds the IT infrastructure humming along smoothly and achieves simplicity and clarity in business operations with StarWind.

You can increase your Azure Portal Security by configuring Conditional Access, an Azure Active Directory (AD) Premium P1 feature, to enforce multi-factor authentication. The feature collects various signals from user IP location to group membership, allows you to see them in real-time, and decide whether to allow or deny application access to AD or allow limited access.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, on how to configure the Conditional Access feature to impose multi-factor authentication to tighten your Azure AD security.

Usual misconceptions about hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) don’t apply to StarWind. We make HCI appropriate and beneficial for deployments of any size, optimizing their IT infrastructure resources to increase ROI. Our HCI Appliances are all-flash with top-shelf components offered at accessible prices. And, finally, we tailor each HCI appliance to each client without extra costs, licensing tiers, or other BS.

Read the new T_HQ article on how StarWind breaks all stereotypes by offering cutting-edge HCI appliances with unrivaled performance that comes at SMB price.

Microsoft has recently added two new features to help with your daily Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) work. The first feature allows you to schedule maintenance windows every week to minimize workload impact. The second one offers different auto-upgrade variations where you can tweak what’ll happen to your existing version, when, and how.

Read the new guide by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, on how to use the new scheduled maintenance and auto-upgrade features for your AKS cluster work.

SabreTech Consulting LLC, an American MSP company, experienced inexplicable outages with its Microsoft S2D-based infrastructure. The company turned to StarWind to help it stabilize its environment's performance and resolve the issue with SPOF (Single Point of Failure).

Find out how SabreTech Consulting LLC was able to achieve fault tolerance and flexible scalability without having to buy any new proprietary hardware with StarWind.

StarWind SAN & NAS Free is a recent release from StarWind that allows repurposing aging hypervisor servers into various shared storage use cases. One of such use cases is transforming them into network-attached storage (NAS). The new solution makes deploying software-defined shared storage on what you have easy like never before!

Read the new article by Brandon Lee of VirtualizationHowTo on how to use StarWind SAN & NAS to add NAS to your existing VMware ESXi hosts absolutely for free.

There are various options to ensure backup safety today. The 3-2-1 backup rule (3 copies of data, on 2 different media, 1 of them being off-site) is a must. But it’s not enough. Keeping your backups in an independent network separate from Windows Active Directory, privilege managing, using backup software, like StarWind VTL — these and other extra steps are necessary to ensure thorough data protection.

Read the new article by Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr) on the modern non-arguable essentials of defending your backups from ransomware and deletion.

LIVEBOX, a. s., a Czech streaming services provider, had slow and old storage with an expired warranty that degraded the IT infrastructure performance. With no redundancy, the loss of mission-critical tasks was fairly frequent, resulting in customer dissatisfaction. Thanks to StarWind, LIVEBOX, a. s. gets rid of aging physical storage, achieves high availability, and heads down the road of all-flash.

Find out how LIVEBOX, a. s. improves customer retention with a high-performance IT infrastructure powered by StarWind.

The two companies combine their efforts in a new NVMe-oF/RoCE solution. With it, companies can expect to accelerate their Windows applications, including Microsoft SQL Servers, by a factor of two! This has become possible by combining the one-of-a-kind StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator with Pavilion HyperParallel Data Platform.

See how you can bring ultra-low latency to your cutting-edge technology and reduce storage management costs thanks to the StarWind and Pavilion partnership today.

Flotman Sp. Z o. o. faced problems with unacceptable downtime, limited performance, and aging hardware. Virtualization was a way to fix these issues for sure. They were looking for a cost-efficient hyperconvered solution suitable for Hyper-V to avoid having a single point of failure. Flotman Sp. Z o. o. united all of their servers in one Hyper-V cluster, meeting their desirable requirements.

Find out how the Flotman built a virtualized environment with StarWind and increased their performance.

Automation in daily IT has become a standardized necessity rather than an advantage. Power Automate Desktop builds on the inherent robotic process automation of Power Automate. The solution allows you to automate all of your repetitive desktop processes. But the best thing is that the application is now free for all Windows 10 users!

Read the new article by Nicolas Prigent, a three-time Microsoft MVP, on how to configure Power Desktop Automate to automate tasks on your Windows 10 device.

Having acclaimed rating agencies’ opinions on a designated solution or vendor can be helpful. But seeing what the actual consumers have to say summed up can be even more insightful. As we understand it, one of Gartner’s reports does just that: accumulates professional peer feedback on various HCI vendors and summarizes it into actionable figures.

Read the explanation behind the 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’ for HCI Software and how peers rate HCI vendors on the market.

Curious to learn what drives the 8x increase in Edge applications predicted by IDC? Want to know why Edge infrastructure investment will grow by 40% by 2023? In the new StarWind and IDC video we're discussing the demands driving the Edge, and how StarWind enables video surveillance solutions for mission-critical Edge deployments.

Watch this video to be on top of the latest Edge-related news and learn how StarWind enables you to deliver video surveillance and analytics solutions to the Edge with maximum fault tolerance and minimum possible hardware footprint.

University of Alabama (UAB) Hospital was looking to use new vital signs capturing software. However, its existing old-fashioned SAN-based shared storage infrastructure was too slow and unfit for using the software properly. Buying a new SAN wasn’t an option. StarWind helped UAB run the new software smoothly and enjoy all its benefits without wasting money on new hardware.

Find out how UAB was able to finally run the innovative vital signs capturing software successfully thanks to StarWind repurposing its outdated storage infrastructure into a highly available shared storage pool.

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StarWind V2V Converter / P2V Migrator is a convenient tool for converting and cloning physical machines, virtual disks, and VMs across various scenarios (P2V / V2V / P2C / V2C / C2C). The software solution is free and compatible with all industry-standard hypervisors, like VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen Project, and KVM.

Read the new article by Paolo Valsecchi of nolabnoparty.com on how to use StarWind V2V Converter to migrate XenServer VMs to VMware vSphere like a breeze and — for free.

Auchan Magyarorszag Kft. was searching for a cost-effective yet rock-solid shared storage solution to integrate new POS Systems into 19 of its hypermarkets. Buying expensive NAS or physical SAN solutions wasn’t an option. StarWind allowed the company to build highly available 2-node storage clusters in separate locations with a minimum hardware footprint, costs, and maximum performance.

Find out how Auchan Magyarorszag Kft. was able to avoid spending a fortune on new proprietary components yet receive an SDS solution that met all of its expectations.

ZFS unites a file system with a volume manager, bolstering high levels of redundancy and solid data integrity. Linux, being the fastest-growing open source community, constantly introduces cutting-edge features to its operating system (OS). StarWind leverages both of these solutions, making its Virtual SAN exceptionally redundant, modern, infinitely scalable, and easy to deploy as a Linux-based VM.

Read the article by Brandon Lee of VirtualizationHowTo on how StarWind seamlessly integrates all the benefits of ZFS and Linux in Virtual SAN's core architecture and functionality.

StarWind VTL (Virtual Tape Library) has been certified with Veeam Backup & Replication V11! It means that the solution is fully compatible with the latest Veeam features and capabilities. The certification also signifies that Veeam B&R infrastructure built with StarWind VTL is qualified for support from both Veeam and StarWind.

Check out the Veeam knowledge-base for details on the testing environment used to scrutinize StarWind VTL and for other certification minutiae.

Daifuku North America Holding Company, a huge provider of material handling based in Illinois, USA, was looking for a cost-effective, fast, and rock-solid way to satisfy its 3-2-1 backup demand. 3-2-1 backup means having 3 copies of data with one of the copies having to be stored off-site. With StarWind’s help, Daifuku's backup infrastructure is now ready for any growth and safe from any disasters thanks to newly acquired flexible, automated, and air-gapped cloud and object storage tiering.

Find out how Daifuku North America Holding Company was able to satisfy its need for the 3-2-1 backup rule with ease while saving some serious money thanks to StarWind.