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Customary HDD-based backup infrastructure takes a long time to backup data and even more to restore it. In the modern age of increasing cyber threats and data value, compromise for data loss is unacceptable. Our new NVMe-based backup solution brings near-instant speed to backup and restore, as well as simplified backup administration, making those issues obsolete.

Check out the white paper, describing the functionality, features, and benefits your business can gain with the new, state-of-the-art All-NVMe StarWind Backup Appliance.

DBeaver is an open-source, free multi-platform database management software. It’s also an SQL client for developers and database administrators that has a user-friendly UI. It can be used as an alternative for MySQL-Workbench and PGAdmin to work with various databases, like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Greenplum, and others.

Read the new guide by Karim Buzdar on how to properly install and configure DBeaver on Linux to help make your database administration routine more simplified.

Permolex Ltd., a Canadian manufacturing company, had a production environment running 24/7 365 days per year. Any significant downtime would have seriously hurt the company's image and workload. If the existing system failed or was down to perform required system updates and maintenance, its production data could be compromised and reputation damaged. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Permolex Ltd. creates a failover cluster improving the security of client data and coming to naught the possibility of reputational risks.

Find out how Permolex Ltd. builds a highly available and fault-tolerant IT infrastructure stimulating its business growth with StarWind.

myCRE, Inc., an American cloud hosting provider, had a traditional VMware cluster with a physical SAN storage. High cost, low performance, and growth potential were the three main issues the company wanted to resolve, while not being tied to a specific hardware vendor/type. Using StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA), myCRE, Inc. move to hyperconvergence, removing physical SAN limitations, gaining freedom of hardware and software choice, and ensuring a more granular growth of their VMware cluster at a lower cost.

Find out how myCRE, Inc. intensify IT infrastructure performance saving over $50,000 for business development with StarWind.

Azure recently released a Premium SKU (Stock-keeping-Unit) for its Firewall. Although Azure Firewall Premium is not as foolproof as Palo Alto or Checkpoint, it’s been getting more and more upgrades. This version is better-suited for connectivity control, with its new features like TLS inspection, IDPS, Web categories, and URL filtering.

Read the new post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about Azure Firewall Premium in brief and how to deploy the solution to control your connectivity.

Well, it’s finally here: starting September 1, 2021, Windows Server 2022 is generally available! There’s a whole slew of new features and novelties present in the OS. However, most advancement is seen in enhancing security and hybrid cloud workload, catering to the modern shift to remote work and processing data at the point of inception.

Read the article by Brandon Lee, a virtualization expert, on all the essentials you need to know about the new features in the recently launched Windows Server 2022.

Exhibit Options, an American full-service, custom design, and fabrication exhibit builder, had the issue of an unscaled IT infrastructure that did not allow for fast customer service processes. For this reason, it was looking for a solution that would balance the increasing workloads and provide the desired flexibility. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Exhibit Options gets an immediate boost to its IT infrastructure scalability and significantly improves customer service processes.

Find out how Exhibit Options gains agility in customer service processes by building a high-availability (HA) cluster powered by StarWind.

The recent release from StarWind takes an entirely new approach to backup overall. StarWind Backup Appliance (BA) combines components conventionally associated with performance enhancement and presents a totally novel backup solution. Near-to-instant backup. Ultra-fast restore. Low eco and hardware footprint. Great longevity.

Read the new article by VirtualizationHowTo on how StarWind BA removes any backup storage bottlenecks, fits any RTPO, and fully reshapes the efficiency of modern backup infrastructure.

Share IT Limited, a British bespoke managed services provider (MSP), needed to enhance a production environment with the aim of further business growth. However, its storage was always a single point of failure (SPOF) threatening data integrity in the event of power loss and provoking high downtime costs. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Share IT Limited creates a highly available (HA) storage cluster as well as patches, updates, and performs routine maintenance without concern and without having to schedule downtime with the company's customers.

Find out how Share IT Limited enhances the production environment and expands the range of its IT services thanks to StarWind eliminating its SPOF issue.

StarWind has taken the components that are traditionally used to enhance production performance and created a revolutionary backup solution! There is no compromise now: no data will be lost, no backup window needs planning. No server storage bottleneck. Any file and VM size are restored in a snap. Not just a bunch of disks. Not an overstatement.

Click on the link to find out how the new StarWind All-NVMe Backup Appliance breaks all the rules about backup infrastructure, making everything lightning-fast.

Usually, when deployed, Azure VMs don't have BitLocker (a volume encryption feature) enabled. This may contradict your corporate security policy. To address that, you can use Azure Disk Encryption to encrypt Windows or Linux Azure VMs with BitLocker or DM-Crypt. However, to complete the process, you will need a secret and a key.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, on how to tighten your security by encrypting Azure VMs via Azure Disk Encryption.

Formica UK & Ireland, a worldwide laminate manufacturer, had 60+ nodes and used a traditional blade and fibre SAN approach to compute and storage resources. Such an excessive IT infrastructure footprint didn't meet a new cloud strategy exaggerating power consumption and threatening the client data integrity. Maintenance costs for a system now running at 1/3 of its capacity were not viable. The company sought to migrate to a fully virtualized environment in order to achieve high availability (HA) and improve its backup strategy. Using StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) and StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Formica UK & Ireland minimizes its global footprint from 60+ to 8 compute nodes, slices OpEx considerably, satisfies a revered 3-2-1 backup rule, and improves SQL performance by 30%.

Find out how Formica UK & Ireland enhances the security of client data thanks to StarWind helping it to move to hyperconvergence and adopt a new backup strategy.

Contrary to what you might think, vSphere Mobile Client is quite a handy app. It allows you to review and manage your VMs, monitor tasks, view performance charts, and even take snapshots. The app is compatible with vCenter Server 6.x and higher, compliant with the Clarity theme and utilizes the same API as the vSphere HTML5 web client.

Read the article by Vladan Seget on the updates vSphere Mobile Client has recently received and how it can help make your remote work more convenient and effective.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) is yet another crucial step in modern cybersecurity. It is especially relevant if you’re using Azure Application Gateway or Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). Azure WAF Policy will help you customize and manage rules and policies for the entire Application Gateway, a certain listener, or a specific route path.

Read the short guide by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, on how to properly deploy, customize, and use Azure WAF Policy for your Application Gateway and AKS.

BTT Cloud, a Lithuanian IT Managed Service Provider (MSP), had a compute and storage separated scenario with software-defined storage (SDS) and Hyper-V on top. Such infrastructure was distinguished by a large hardware footprint and required a lot of time, effort, and tools for administration. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), the company moves to hyperconvergence and gets rid of tons of standalone servers.

Find out how BTT Cloud receives a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure and breaks new ground for its business growth with StarWind.

This StarWind webinar will explain where ZFS came from and how it was developed into what it is today. You will learn about its main operational principles and structure, as well as about its existing features, like RAIDZ, and more recent ones, like dRAID. The episode will also discuss which popular products already make use of ZFS technology, and where the future of ZFS lies.

Register now for the upcoming webinar to understand the hype around ZFS better and why you should consider introducing the technology into your infrastructure.

Accu-Tec, an American contract packaging company, had an ESXi cluster with physical Xiotech SAN storage. High acquisition and maintenance costs of a standalone SAN, no redundancy, and a lack of support from an unstable manufacturer were the most critical issues of the existing IT infrastructure that had to be addressed as soon as practicably possible. With StarWind, the company creates a hyperconverged cluster, accomplishing full-redundancy goals with no extra costs, receiving a single point of contact for all maintenance and management, and obtaining 24/7 proactive support.

Find out how Accu-Tec accumulates over $80,000 for enhancing its operations and growing its core business with StarWind.

Notifications can be incredibly useful for displaying vital information on your machine or on a remote user workstation, for example. You can create and display your desired notifications using PowerShell and a custom GitHub module for it — BurntToast. To enjoy this technique though, you’d have to use Windows 10 or Windows Server 2019.

Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a three-time Microsoft MVP, on how to create and display notifications on Windows 10 and WS2019 using a custom GitHub PowerShell Module.

Mine Canadian Malartic, a Canadian gold mining company, has an IT infrastructure with 900 user computers and 100 different virtual servers that maintain the production area 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Maintaining high availability (HA) and ensuring real-time data synchronization were the company's top priorities. This being said, the existing 8 different cold storage units and 2 physical SANs with VMware ESXi on top created a tight corner of a single point of failure (SPOF). StarWind enabled the company to eliminate SPOF for storage, do updates during any hours without cuts at the production site, and make applications constantly available.

Find out how Mine Canadian Malartic ensures real-time data synchronization with StarWind

StarWind and all its products are available for purchase and full support in Australia and in the Asia-Pacific region! We’re shipping worldwide, as well as providing ProActive Support, AI Health Monitoring, and Backup Status Vigilance 24/7/365 round the globe! Enterprise-grade hyperconvergence at SMB price for everyone and everywhere is what we’re all about.

See this video on IT Brief Australia where Orest Lesyuk, a StarWind Solutions Engineer, provides a short intro on StarWind and how you can start benefiting from our products from anywhere in the world and any time zone today.