Today, not only digital technology evolves exponentially, but it also requires less and less hardware. For example, Azure users now get a chance to experience Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) applied in their environment, deploying infrastructure with already configured Windows Server virtual machine (VM) and code. You can give it a test run and make sure it is easy to manage whether you are a specialist or not!

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to deploy a test environment on Azure via Terraform.

Lake Erie College, a US higher education institution, had multiple hosts with VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V. The college could not provide the protection and safety of its academic data due to the lack of replication and redundancy. Besides, there was a problem with the replacement of outdated hardware. Thanks to StarWind, Lake Erie College replaces outdated hardware, gains reliable backup, and ensures Hyper-V live migration, at the same time minimizing downtime.

Find out how Lake Erie College increases redundancy and failover capabilities, getting highly available (HA) IT environment at an incredibly competitive price with StarWind.

NVMe is quite a promising technology, but there’s something wrong with its perception: admins are not going as crazy about it as vendors. Using legacy protocols, applications cannot get most of PCIe flash performance, meaning that we do not get the performance we paid for.

NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) is a protocol tailored for PCIe SSDs, but there is no NVMe-oF initiator for Windows.

StarWind is excited to present one! It is the first free all-software NVMe-oF initiator for Windows that proved its efficiency by helping us to set the HCI industry speed record.

Find out more about StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator

PAD Technologies Inc., an American IT consulting company, used to work with Microsoft Windows cluster on VMware. The company required high availability (HA) at the voice server level for their voice traffic to remain seamless under any circumstances to provide excellent service for their clients.

Find out how PAD Technologies Inc. ensures replication in HA cluster environment and redundancy with StarWind.

DevMecca, an American custom software development, application hosting, and big data analysis company, intended to expand their existing hardware to virtualize the entire environment. Storage Spaces Direct option did not work out, so DevMecca turned to StarWind in order to virtualize their environment with fully redundant Supermicro servers.

Learn from the success story how StarWind helps DevMecca to setup and configure their new hardware for complete redundancy.

If your business is in finance, you already know that to manage time, money, and resources, you need to keep your applications highly available and performing at the required level. Scalability, high availability, performance, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and data backup policy are vital in the financial industry, so don't miss your chance to keep them alive and well.

Read our rubric Finance to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.

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 is it, how and when to use it, and what use cases are on a need-to-know basis.

Learn from the upcoming webinar when containers are better than VMs and what is so special about Windows containers!

The USS Midway Museum had 4-node Hyper-V failover cluster with Windows Server 2012. The organization wanted to create shared storage using commodity hardware. However, storage vendors charged exorbitant prices for outdated methods of SAN storage maintenance and imposed unprofitable support plans. With StarWind, the USS Midway Museum received shared storage that can be easily deployed on the existing commodity hardware without additional support costs.

Find out how the USS Midway Museum received such a desired high availability (HA) for its applications and saved more than $80,000 on hardware and software expenses with StarWind.

Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 Free version release can come off as deja vu because it would appear that this product has already been released and there is nothing new for you to hear about. There is a truth to it, but the previous version was taken down, so this is the new one. Therefore, both the prior users and those who want to try it might want to take a look at its features, pros and cons, and handy tips!

Read the article by Vladan Seget, a Virtualization consultant, to find out about Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 Free version release and how to download it.

It is not enough to build a functioning hyperconverged infrastructure because any IT environment needs to be constantly in check. Testing cluster performance is a necessity that requires the most serious approach. Hot news for VMware vSAN users is that they do not have to spend all that time and effort anymore since this efficient utility allows automating testing process carried out with such benchmark tools as VDbench or Fio.

Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization expert, to find out how to get maximum performance for VMware vSAN cluster using HCIBench utility.

The Newcastle High School for Girls faced problems with low resilience and limited performance and needed a shared storage cluster to fix them. They were looking for a cost-efficient virtual SAN solution suitable for Hyper-V. The Newcastle High School for Girls united all of their servers in one cluster, introducing RDS to their infrastructure.

Find out how the NHSG built a fault-tolerant cluster with StarWind and increased their performance.

H&R Reit, a Canadian property developer and management company, had a single-server infrastructure for its Microsoft Exchange Server. The environment lacked redundancy, resulting in an inappropriate amount of recovery time. The company was to look for a solution that used existing hardware resources even if they were dissimilar to avoid costly options of replacing them. StarWind helped H&R Reit to move to hyperconvergence using existing hardware resources, create a failover cluster ensuring applications uptime, and eliminate the risk of a single point of failure (SPOF).

Find out how H&R Reit provided applications uptime and redundancy for its Microsoft Exchange Server at a reasonable cost with StarWind.

Microsoft Azure users have no problem with connecting their VMs, except that its protection prospects in terms of public IP use could have been better, so the use of VPN is strongly advised, if not required. All this hussle ends with Azure Bastion, new Azure feature allowing to create RDP or SSH session from the Azure Portal, thereby relieving the users from the need to use a public IP address.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft Expert, to find out how to exploit new Azure Bastion feature from the preview Azure Portal.

The world is moving forward every second, so you have to keep moving if you want to make history and not stand aside from it. According to Ben Franklin, nothing is better than investing in knowledge, hence the necessity of educational institutions in the latest tech. However, a lot of things usually stand in the way, such as strict budget, limited application uptime, vulnerable data, and obsolete hardware. StarWind can remove these obstacles so you can keep your pace.

Read our rubric Education to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.

Hyperconvergence allows building environments out of commodity hardware so that they will be perfectly suited to any needs. So, why not grab the fastest hardware, install the feature-rich software, and enjoy the highest performance ever? Microsoft did that before. StarWind went beyond!

Find out how we clinched the HCI industry highest performance.

The Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is genuinely one of the best options there are for establishing remote access to applications and desktops. The deployment of RDS, however, can be quite a pickle, which is why the release of a new Windows template for full RDS farm deployment is hot news. This template has everything you need. RD gateway, RD Broker, RD Licensing, - you name it, it's got it.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft Expert, to find out how to deploy an entire RDS farm in Microsoft Azure.

Are you a network administrator, an IT engineer working with VMware's products, or just a determined homelabbing tinkerer? Do you intend to work with vSphere environment or your goal is to build one? Either way, it seems that you can use both large and small details you can get your hands on, like finding out about vSphere network topology and jumbo frames or measuring the golden mean of computing resources.

Learn from this video the general characterization of vSphere and its specifics to work with!

Today, the word "hyperconvergence" is not surprising anyone anymore. As reports go, hyperconverged infrastructure systems market is quite a business, and the business is booming. Research suggests that this market is on the rise, and its yet about to have its finest hour. In recent years, there are key players established on the scene, and StarWind is one of the top-notch ones.

Find out more about research report, important features, reasons to buy, and key regions covered by the market.

Everybody who knows the difference between a standard web framework and a microframework realizes that you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. What the latter wins by simplicity and speed it compensates with the lack of functionality. However, if you value a lightweight framework more than everything else, Flask microframework written in Python is your go-to choice.

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer, to find out how to install Flask on Ubuntu 18.04 and run Flask applications.

Logos Data Services, a U.S. company specializing in providing IT outsourced and consulting services, had problems with outdated hardware and a lack of support and service warranties. It had an infrastructure with a combination of Dell EqualLogic SAN devices and Dell PowerEdge Servers with VMware ESXi on top. Outdated hardware resources increase the risk of security breaches and reduce the company’s productivity. With StarWind, Logos Data Services replaced and consolidated several old SAN and VMware ESXi servers to 2 hyperconverged servers and created a highly available (HA) and fault-tolerant (FT) IT infrastructure.

Find out how Logos Data Services built a modern and safe IT environment at a price affordable for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with StarWind.