How to save money and maintain integrity of your data with LTO? By no means. If you save your money on the purchase of some modern physical tape drive for backup purpose, you spend twice as much on maintaining media in your datacenter. It’s going round in circles, agree? But you have the opportunity to get rid of all these inconveniences and access your data anytime and securely store it locally with flexible tiering and replication to Backblaze (B2) Cloud Storage. And save your money! We do not urge you to take our word for it. We invite you to visualize your benefits for the decades ahead with our calculator. LTO Vs B2.

Check for yourself what it means to have StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze in your IT infrastructure.

AllPro Technologies, a U.S. managed IT service provider (MSP), required a shared storage solution to achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT) of its IT infrastructure. The company had a problem with a slow Hyper-V replication process that was subject to constant errors. Any failures in replication can disrupt data integrity and fault tolerance of the IT infrastructure in case of emergency. With StarWind, AllPro Technologies saved the money and eliminated downtime in case of a power outage.

Find out how AllPro Technologies built a fault-tolerant IT infrastructure with 750+ desktops and 100+ servers thanks to StarWind.

A. L. Thompson's, a British building materials retailer, had a VMware environment with local storage and ESXi on top. The company wanted to achieve scalability for its IT infrastructure expanding server space, but without buying expensive DAS and replacing existing hardware. In addition, the company needed to optimize intense virtualized workloads between the ESXi hosts. With StarWind, A. L. Thompson's received a full-fledged shared storage solution with the opportunity to move VMs around and distribute the virtualized workloads between the ESXi hosts evenly and with no need for buying costly proprietary components.

Find out how A. L. Thompson's gets required scalability and high availability with the bare minimum of expense with StarWind.

A person of today should be fair-minded and free from bias in any situation. The tech community is no exception. How can you choose the right soft- or hardware? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the product? IT Central Station is an online platform that offers current, objective, and relevant user information and helps in choosing the best technical solution. Do you doubt what to give preference: StarWind Virtual SAN or VMware vSAN?

Determine the winner by yourself after reading reviews about two VSAN solutions.

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 the upcoming webinar about improving your Hyper-V environment with task automation through PowerShell.

The official US motto sounds like “In God we trust”. But there is also another part of this phrase: "In God we trust, the rest we check". Do you want to choose the right soft- or hardware? Always check and read, especially user reviews. IT Central Station is an online platform that offers current, objective, and relevant user information and helps in choosing the best technical solution. Do you doubt what to give preference: StarWind Virtual SAN or Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?

Take a look what customers have to say about hyperconvergence done in the right way and make your choice.

Hamden Hall Country Day School, an American independent day school, used to have aging hardware for their existing virtual environment. Its performance was disappointing, and the SAN system was prone to failure. As a result, Hamden Hall has chosen StarWind hyperconverged solution as a better alternative.

Find out how Hamden Hall Country Day School received flawless performance, zero downtime, and fault tolerance with the help of StarWind.

Even the least experienced users know a few things vital for an undisrupted working process if they are dealing with VMware vSphere infrastructure, one of those things being patching. Back in the good old days, risks of cyber threats were something that happens to people in the movies, but today you won't go very far without security patches. Keep your environment up to date with patching VMware vCenter Server Appliance!

Read the article by Vladan Seget, a Virtualization consultant, to find out how to manually patch VMware vCenter server Appliance (VCSA).

Hillis-Carnes Engineering Associates, an American company specializing in geotechnical and geostructural engineering, needed highly available IT infrastructure because of the constant risk of losing production due to hardware failure. To ensure the desired redundancy the company needed 2 SANs, but, after looking into numbers, though, the company decided to deploy an additional node. With StarWind HyperConverged Appliance deployment, the company increased data resiliency and ensured the highest possible production uptime with hardware fault tolerance (FT).

Find out how Hillis-Carnes Engineering Associates received a reliable highly available infrastructure with StarWind.

In times of need, a web framework comes really in hand, since it allows automating web applications running processes as much as it is possible, but there is always a fly in the ointment. In this case, it is an amount of resource required to access re-usable modules which any web site may need. However, unlike a lot of its counterparts, Django web framework provides you with connection and enabling these modules on as needed basis!

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer, to find out how to get started with installing Django on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS.

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.

As a software-defined virtualized environment, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is gaining more and more popularity each year, offering new possibilities and benefits to users, outshining traditional architectures. In such circumstances of growing competition, the fact that StarWind HCA continues to gain recognition as one of the few best HCI systems is clearly speaking for itself! Find out more.

If your organization is working with a cloud-only environment, there is hardly a necessity to tell you about managed domains and their benefits for an IT infrastructure. However, what can get your attention, is a possibility to deploy a managed domain without a need to deploy virtual machines (VMs) first, which is precisely what Azure offers with a new server role in Active Directory!

Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a System Engineer, to find out how to deploy Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AADDS) in a dedicated subnet within virtual network.

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.

Mr.T Carting, a U.S. waste management company, had standalone Microsoft Hyper-V hosts with a lack of redundancy. This layout was extremely vulnerable to failure. Thanks to StarWind, Mr.T Carting created a high availability (HA) failover cluster using existing hardware with the much-needed redundancy.

Find out from this success story how Mr.T Carting receives supreme performance and desired HA for its applications with StarWind.

If you have already tried out a test environment deployment on Azure with Terraform, you may have found it eligible, albeit slightly insecure. However, the latter problem exists only in case you won't fix it with storing your password in Azure Key Vault!

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how protect your password with Azure Key Vault while running test environment via Terraform.

Are you intrigued by recent hype around Docker? Then you will find it interesting to learn about an alternative to VMs - application containers. We can help you to find out what it is, how and when to use it, and what use cases are on a need-to-know basis.

Learn from this video when containers are better than VMs and that Docker is not the only container type there is!

CollectionCenter, Inc., a U.S. accounts receivables management services provider, required the truly redundant and cost-efficient hyperconverged cluster solution to achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). The company had an IT infrastructure with multiple single hosts and different versions of hypervisors from Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft. Critical problems were associated with aging hardware and the lack of redundancy. With StarWind, CollectionCenter, Inc., got rid of outdated hardware and numerous hypervisors, received reliability, safety, and constant protection of customer data, and almost halved overall equipment costs.

Find out how CollectionCenter, Inc. created a single hyperconverged HA Hyper-V cluster with additional redundancy that works flawlessly with StarWind.

One of the primary benefits of operating in a virtualized environment is granting remote access to distant users. However, in the age of digital crime being on the rise, it is not as safe as we would want it to be. Luckily, Azure users don't have to lose sleep over security issue anymore. With Just in Time VM Access, you can automatize configuring the NSGs to allow inbound traffic to the requested port.

Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a System Engineer, to find out how to lock down your virtual machines (VMs) in the network level by blocking inbound traffic.

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.