Posts made by Oksana

Benny D’Angelo Transport, a Canada-based transport company, faced a challenge with a slow IT infrastructure performance and frequent crashes with its iSCSI QNAP NAS, causing significant downtime and operational disruptions. The company required a cost-effective shared storage solution to create a fault-tolerant cluster. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Benny D’Angelo Transport integrates its existing 10 servers into a fast, reliable network with comprehensive failover protection, thus boosting the infrastructure's reliability and performance and significantly improving overall operational efficiency. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/4C

Learn about the new features in VMware vSphere 8 Update 3. This update includes dual DPU support, enhanced #CPU functionality, and the efficient vSphere Live Patch.
Discover how these improvements can optimize your IT operations in the new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for #StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/4z

The National Archives of Estonia, a government agency, had an outdated IT infrastructure, reliant on a traditional storage array, EMC AX4-5F, which lacked scalability and high availability (HA). Acquiring new traditional storage seemed financially burdensome, so the organization sought a cost-effective yet robust solution to address its challenges. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), the National Archives of Estonia deploys a 2-node HA cluster and enhances efficiency and reliability, thus ensuring the secure and reliable storage of its historical records. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/4w

Trying to decide which virtualization plalform best suits your enterprise needs? Our latest article by Alex Khorolets, a Technical Support Engineer, for #StarWind pits the leading hypervisors against each other. Explore how #VMware, #HyperV, #AzureStackHCI, and #KVM stack up in terms of performance, cost, and features. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/4t

Vipa Group, a global merchandiser of recyclable materials, faced critical risks due to the absence of high availability (HA) in its standalone ESXi infrastructure. To address its challenges, the company required an affordable yet highly effective storage solution. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Vipa Group builds an HA IT infrastructure, increases redundancy and reliability without breaking the bank, and ensures uninterrupted operations critical for managing the intricate logistics of its global supply chain. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/4p

Ready to explore effective backup strategies for Proxmox VE? Join our webinar to discover the native Proxmox Backup Server and future support from Veeam. Learn about network configuration, security measures, and more. Register now: https://starwind.com/s/4j

VMware vSphere 8 introduces several critical security upgrades. Dive into our detailed guide by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind to understand these new features and how they can help you protect your virtual environment from cyber threats. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/4g

The Newtron Group, one of the largest privately owned specialty industrial construction companies in the United States, faced significant challenges with its existing Hitachi SAN and seven Gateway compute nodes running on outdated Windows 2003 servers, which lacked support for an active-active SAN solution and resulted in high maintenance costs and limited redundancy. The company required a cost-effective shared storage solution to consolidate its IT infrastructure and lower high operational expenses (OpEx). By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), the Newtron Group consolidates its infrastructure from nine servers to two, enhances system stability, achieves a cost-effective, highly available (HA) compute/storage model, and saves about $200,000 on hardware resources over the four years. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/4d

Exploring other virtualization options after the Broadcom-VMware deal? Check out our detailed review of the top 10 alternatives and competitors to VMware in 2024 by Vladislav Karaiev, StarWind's Head of Marketing. Get a thorough comparison of the leading platforms and find the right fit for your organization. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/4a

SysSense, an Abu Dhabi-based IT solutions provider, lacked redundancy in its IT infrastructure, compounded by the high cost of implementing shared storage solutions and ensuring continuous uptime across multiple hardware components. The company required a cost-effective and reliable solution to address its challenges. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), SysSense virtualizes storage, ensures high availability for production virtual machines (VMs) within its Hyper-V server farm, and achieves 24/7 business operations. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/47

Check out our recently recorded live webinar by Sr. Solutions Engineer Alex Khorolets for an in-depth look at how Proxmox can revolutionize your virtualization strategy. From this webinar, you will learn about Proxmox's powerful features, benefits over VMware, migration strategies, and how to ensure a seamless transition.
Watch the webinar recording now: https://starwind.com/s/42

Curious about how to secure your network against modern threats? Learn about the advanced security features in Microsoft Windows and Azure from our latest article by Brandon Lee, an IT Consultant, for StarWind, and find out how these tools can help secure your on-premises and cloud environment. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3Z

Fitzstone Limited, a legal firm located in Trinidad and Tobago, faced a critical challenge in ensuring business continuity due to an aging server infrastructure and the risks associated with a single point of failure (SPOF) in its SAN-based setup. The firm required a cost-sa and practical shared storage solution to address its challenges. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Fitzstone Limited eliminates a SPOF issue, utilizes existing hardware for a robust failover cluster, and transitions smoothly to Hyper-V, thus creating a scalable and reliable IT infrastructure and ensuring business continuity. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3Y

If you're working with Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments, check out our latest article on VMware Tanzu by Alex Samoylenko, an expert in virtualization technology, for StarWind. We break down the core components of Tanzu, including TKG, TAS, and TMC, and explain how they can improve your application management. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3S

R.K. Black, Inc., a U.S.-based managed IT services provider (MSP), faced operational inefficiencies and vulnerability to downtime due to reliance on physical servers with minimal virtualization and a lack of high-availability (HA) services. The company needed a solution that could consolidate its server environment and enable seamless virtualization with built-in failover capabilities. By deploying StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), R.K. Black, Inc. reduces the number of physical servers from 14 to 2, creates a hyperconverged IT environment, and enhances its overall operational efficiency. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3P

Ready to streamline your VM conversions? StarWind V2V Converter's newest update brings hot migration from Hyper-V to VMware, along with support for Oracle VirtualBox and oVirt.
Explore these enhancements in the new article by Vlad Savchenko, StarWind Pre-Sales Engineer. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3M

River Run, a U.S.-based managed IT services provider (MSP), faced a challenge of an outdated HPE LeftHand VSAN infrastructure, reaching end-of-life, without the immediate possibility of hardware replacement. The company required a shared storage solution that could seamlessly integrate with the current setup. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), River Run creates a highly available (HA) IT environment, transitions from the outdated infrastructure to a new architecture without necessitating an immediate hardware overhaul, and resolves the end-of-life (EOL) issue, thus ensuring uninterrupted business operations. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3L

Diving into the world of software-defined storage? Explore how Ceph stands out with its focus on limitless scalability. Learn Ceph's key aspects, benefits and drawbacks in the latest article by Vlad Karaiev for StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3F

Dobson Mitchell Allport, an Australian legal practice, relied on a single physical SAN, posing a significant risk due to its vulnerability as a single point of failure. The company required a cost-effective shared storage solution to replace its physical SAN and achieve high availability (HA). By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Dobson Mitchell Allport establishes an HA cluster, replaces the vulnerable physical SAN, significantly improves its IT infrastructure performance, enhances reliability, ensures uninterrupted legal services delivery, and safeguards sensitive client data. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/3C

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/3z