In times when computing technology is moving by leaps and bounds, cloud migration happens quite often. While completely common, this process carries some dangers, such as web applications safety. It becomes an issue since you expose your sites publicly. However, if you move your servers to Azure, this won't be a problem!
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to deploy Azure Application Gateway.
CIPTI used to have their backups performed manually, which was slowing them down. They were looking for a cost-efficient shared storage solution suitable for Hyper-V, and they found StarWind.
Find out how CIPTI received shared storage with StarWind and increased their performance.
The world has changed, and today nobody treats cybercrime as a joke. However, while huge corporations have employed armies of specialists to take matters in their own hands, it begs the question: what about the others who don't have such vast resources at their disposal? Small organizations are not at all helpless, but there are some things everybody needs to know about cybersecurity!
Read the article by Benoit Voirin, a Cybersecurity consultant, to find out details about the main cybersecurity concerns and solutions.
Are you a System Administrator or IT Manager calmly kicked back in the back of your SMB’s seemingly calm IT-environment but with a nagging “what if?” in case disasters come knocking? Then it’s time to get a bit more knowledge about disaster recovery so that your cluster is impeccable always. vSphere and Hyper-V have a lot of features to help you with that. There’s also more than meets the eye when it comes to native DR and VM replication options and Azure Site Recovery in VMware and Microsoft environments.
Learn from the upcoming webinar how you can become the perfect sentinel of your SMB’s business continuity.
Everybody knows that access errors are the most irritating ones in any computer-related activity. They become even more confusing if the traditional means to get behind it won't work. Say, you are trying to connect your VM to a domain, and you get this infamous "access denied" message? Don't worry that this will bother you.
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to deal with ERROR_Access_Denied after joining a VM to a domain.
Diaflor Technologies, a Romanian hospitality services provider, had an IT infrastructure with two bare-metal servers, a couple of Cisco switches, and an NGFW router. Bare-metal servers have more limitations compared to virtual instances and require physical network resources. All this made the company's IT infrastructure inflexible and costly. Thanks to StarWind, Diaflor Technologies receives a cost-efficient and reliable shared storage, creates a failover cluster, and achieves flexibility and scalability of the IT infrastructure.
Find out how Diaflor Technologies turns to virtualization saving thousands of euros on hardware and software expenses with StarWind.
VMware vSphere specialists can do wonders with these environments, pushing its potential to the limit. Unfortunately, IT admins and team members don't usually possess that level of expertise. Nevertheless, by using VMware vSphere snapshot storing technology, you can make administrating vSphere environment much more comfortable with a very flexible way of being able to go back in time and revert changes!
Read the article by Vladan Seget, a Virtualization consultant, to find out how to store the complete state and data of a virtual machine with VMware snapshot.
The IBAR Systemtechnik GmbH faced problems with low speed and limited performance and needed a highly available shared storage cluster to use it as a central data store. They were looking for a cost-efficient virtual SAN solution suitable for Hyper-V. The IBAR Systemtechnik GmbH united their servers in one 2 servers highly available cluster, increasing their performance.
Find out how the IBAR Systemtechnik built a cluster with StarWind and increased their performance.
Permolex Ltd. required a shared storage solution to achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT) of IT infrastructure. Any failures in replication can disrupt data integrity production in case of emergency. With StarWind, Permolex Ltd. saved the money and eliminated downtime in case of failover.
Find out how Permolex Ltd. built a fault-tolerant IT infrastructure with the help of StarWind.
Are you a system administrator having trouble working with Hyper-V environment? Thanks to mastering PowerShell, your work environment can be as easily manageable as your own smart home, with its primary functions carried by the task automation!
Learn from this video about improving your Hyper-V environment with task automation through PowerShell.
There isn't really much to say about Terraform and ways it can help you manage your environment that hasn't been already said. However, highlighting its features does not limit to deploying resources in Azure or storing passwords for security measures. Time to find out how your working process can reach more efficiency!
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to execute commands directly in a virtual machine (VM) when deploying the resource.
StarWind presents Virtual SAN (VSAN) for vSphere - a lightweight Linux-based VM, providing your ROBO & Edge ship with needed fault tolerance, high application uptime, high availability, and storage utilization efficiency on existing commodity hardware. Great sailing is not only for big ships. Even small- and medium-sized businesses deserve to have their big sea without any barriers. And you can be sure that your path won’t be blocked by any obstacles: neither complicated licensing conditions nor hardware compatibility list (HCL) strictness.
Go on your highly available path with only 2 nodes with StarWind VSAN for vSphere!
Goshen Community Schools, a US public education institution, had an inflexible IT infrastructure built on Dell Compellent SAN with VMware ESXi deployed on top of it. The combination was its SPOF without the benefits of redundancy. The institution required fault-tolerant, highly available (HA) shared storage instead of a costly upgrade of its existing SAN, which would yield little output. Thanks to StarWind, Goshen Community Schools achieved HA and scalability with a single flexible and cost-efficient virtual SAN solution using the components it wanted.
Find out how Goshen Community Schools avoided a budget-breaking scenario and built an extremely fast SAN without stacking at an incredibly competitive price with StarWind.
No report speaks louder in terms of market prospects than a report oriented on customer needs and investment possibilities. Global perspectives of the hyperconverged systems market 2019-2024 are more than promising, and such conclusion is based on product and supply chains analysis, economic and regulatory factors, and, eventually, customer base. No wonder that StarWind confidently takes a place in the front row among major vendor/manufacturers in the hyperconverged infrastructure systems market! Find out more.
Keeping your storage up to date is a necessary action one takes to ensure the efficiency of overall infrastructure performance. However, manual handling of such matters as testing storage or setting the workload pattern can be rather tedious to conduct. Or at least it was until the IOBlazer utility kicked in!
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a Virtualization technology professional, to find out how to enable reliable testing of storage subsystems from inside virtual machines.
Getting highly available (HA) shared storage is an issue of growth for any business. Beginners stretch budgets to splurge on a SAN and the enterprise spends skyrocketing sums to stack it. Both force unnecessary expenditure: their IT-environment isn’t “juiced” to the fullest due to poor functionality and inability to scale. With StarWind VSAN, TechHQ says that startups can easily start without buying SANs and corporates can scale without stacking — everyone can achieve fault-tolerance and HA for a very attractive price.
Find out how to get reliable and fluid resources to power your business.
It's almost time to get used to the fact that each significant and thorough report on prospects, forecasts, and major players in the hyperconverged infrastructure market always includes StarWind. Years of expertise, an impressive number of satisfied clients, and impeccable industry reputation are making sure of this! Find out more.
Everybody knows that the main advantage of the HCI system is that it virtualizes all traditional elements of IT infrastructure, such as networking and computing. However, while virtualization technology has been around for a while now, market development shows that it is yet to enter a golden age. As reports go, in coming years hyperconvergence will take a more prominent place, top players are already identified, and StarWind is one of them! Find out more.
You have probably already covered the basics of Django installation on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS. This framework now is ready for the ride, but, as you know, there's always room for improvement. If you have a little interest in using default SQLite database option, then it's time to opt for better!
Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer, to find out how to configure Django application to use MySQL database.
