Storage Focus 2019 at Barcelona is by far Europe's leading enterprise-focused IT channel event. Featuring professional speakers from all over the world, it managed to gather the most important IT vendors from different spheres under one roof in the atmosphere of hospitality. StarWind representatives naturally were present and excited to be there.
Everybody stuck with technically and morally obsolete IT infrastructure usually thinks that their problem is unprecedented. There is some truth to this because each situation has a lot of factors, but there is nothing new under the sun. The chances are that your problem is actually easy to be dealt with. You can get yourself acquainted with the continuously renewed listing of cases wherein StarWind helps numerous businesses having similar issues.
Read our rubric Solutions by industries to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
Allied Engineering & Services (Pvt.), a Pakistani company specializing in power generation and earthmoving machinery, had technical challenges using direct-attached storage (DAS) for each server. Such an infrastructure offered an inefficient way to manage corporate decentralized storage that could not be shared easily and could not provide fault tolerance (FT) in case of a server failure. The endless circle of issues originated because the company could not use VMware vSphere advanced features like high availability (HA), FT, and VMotion. StarWind ensured efficient storage use, backup management, and the utilization of VMware vSphere advanced features.
Find out how Allied Engineering & Services got unlimited storage capacity with existing hardware thanks StarWind.
VMware provides its clients with multiple useful features and tools, one of them being vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). It is a preconfigured Linux virtual machine, designed specifically for the running VMware vCenter Server. Admittedly, that makes your life a lot easier, which is why you would not want to lose a connection to a virtual machine. However, that is what happens when your VMware hypervisor is configured with a Distributed Switch (dvSwitch).
Read the article by Paolo Valsecchi, a System Engineer, to find out what you should do if the vCSA connected to dvSwitch is inaccessible after restoration.
Andromeda Technology, a U.S. managed IT service provider (MSP), had a SAN infrastructure with Hyper-V and VMware ESXi. Maintaining the SAN infrastructure with numerous cables, host bus adapters (HBAs), and switches was a very expensive and complicated process. In such a situation, creating a failover cluster and achieving high availability (HA) were an intractable issue. Thanks to StarWind, Andromeda Technology got the main opportunity - to provide failover and performance-optimized storage without a huge investment in maintaining the SAN infrastructure.
Find out how Andromeda Technology achieves HA while reducing costs significantly with StarWind.
The Salvation Army Georgia Division (SAGD), an American non-profit religious organization, had a Windows environment with physical partially virtualized servers and Microsoft Hyper-V on top. Partial virtualization has been associated with data security issues. In addition, such IT infrastructure was unreliable, difficult, and time-consuming to manage. StarWind helped SAGD to build efficient hyperconverged infrastructure with a flexible distributed storage system and ensure high availability (HA) at an affordable price.
Find out how The Salvation Army Georgia Division built a highly available (HA) and fault-tolerant (FT) IT infrastructure with StarWind.
A botnet, DDOS attacks, phishing scam are entering the real world with the fast path, carrying a real threat to your data. How to make yourself secure? Azure Bastion is one way to protect your strategic and critical assets from cyber risks. It allows you to have private and fully managed RDP and SSH access to your Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). How to deploy it in your environment?
Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a System Engineer, to find out how to create an Azure Bastion host.
In not so good old times of internet security being only at preliminary stages, the only protection measures available were wild viral applications all over the internet, such as Sandboxie. It is an app, designed to instantly close and delete all the suspicious content after finishing operations. Naturally, it was only a matter of time until someone has utilized it, which came to be Microsoft.
Read the article by Gary Williams, a Microsoft Expert, to find out what Windows 10 Sandbox mode is and how it makes your network safer at almost no effort.
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 the upcoming webinar the general characterization of vSphere and its specifics to work with!
Admittedly, the way of adjusting a novel piece of technology usually takes a few steps to make. The deployment and configuration of Windows Virtual Desktop are finished, but what to do next? First things first, you have to know the basics, in this case - deploying applications.
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to publish the basic applications using the basic image with Windows Virtual Desktop.
VMware released its new vSphere 6.7 U2 update where vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) has acquired the capability to converge external Platform Service Controller (PSC) into embedded. In addition, it’s now possible to decommission external PSC virtual appliances via the UI instead of CLI. Embedded PSC is right up your alley! It not only simplifies the overall architecture but also facilitates environment patching, upgrading, and management.
Read the article by Vladan Seget, IT and virtualization consultant, to find out how to migrate external PSC to the embedded one and decommission external PSC.
Application virtualization services, despite a lot of benefits, are not always able to rival SaaS platforms. Or at least, it used to be the case before the public preview of Windows Virtual Desktop. The latter is a desktop and app virtualization service employing simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, Office 365 ProPlus optimization, and RDS environments support. Learn how to utilize this novelty in a few clicks!
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to use Windows Virtual Desktop with Azure Tenant.
Are you a system administrator or just want to increase file protection with improving the already existing backup environment? Are you eager to keep up with the current state of cloud storing? Do you want to know more about creating your public cloud storage with AWS, Azure, Backblaze B2, and Wasabi, or using object storage such as Active Scale, Ceph, and Cloudian to find a private solution? Are you interested in knowing more about cloud object storage and its usage so you can make a better choice for your environment?
Learn from the video about leveraging your environment with storing backup data in both private and public cloud object storage using StarWind software!
Veeam announced the next update of its backup app - Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5u4. It has an opportunity to create a Scale-Out Backup Repository (SOBR) with local and cloud extents. And one more benefit: SOBR can include two tiers. It’s not fiction. Create a performance tier and capacity tier such as a storage account in Microsoft Azure with SOBR!
Read the article by Romain Serre, an IT Senior Consultant, to find out how to create and take full advantage of SOBR.
Today, such things as constant application uptime or stable IT environment under strict budget requirements are being taken for granted. However, every system administrator or IT director will prove it wrong at any time of the day. There were times SMB and Enterprise ROBO IT teams used to be struggling for keeping the wolf from the door. TechHQ explains that all the past troubles are history because StarWind VSAN gives a whole new range of opportunity.
Find out more.
CI/CD is kinda a must-do for programmers themselves and their bosses saying how to code faster and better. If you don’t know what it is, well, maybe you do the whole thing wrong. This post discusses this concept in detail, providing useful tips on how to optimize the CI/CD pipeline.
Check out the recent article by Gil Artmoore, a skilled admin with tons of experience in IT departments of small and large companies.
When it comes to the development of computing services, the sky's the limit. Microsoft Azure never rests, constantly searching for ways to ease the computing processes for their customers. New Azure Lab Services enables you with the possibility to monitor and control the use of your virtual machines with on-demand access. Time to learn how and why to use it!
Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a System Engineer, to find out how to keep your budget and working hours in check using Azure Lab Services.
Back in the '50s, the more room computer technology used to take, the more reliable it was. Luckily, it is in the past, and that part of digital technologies past is long gone. You can forget this seemingly inevitable need in shared physical storage as a bad dream. With StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), as TechHQ goes, it is possible to have high scalability with a fully virtualized storage. Find out more.
Daikin, a Vietnamese air conditioning manufacturer, had a complex and inflexible IT infrastructure consisted of physical Hyper-V servers, storage, SAN, plus backup software – everything from different vendors. The company intended to create a high availability cluster. Still, it was too costly with their existing infrastructure layout. Thanks to StarWind, Daikin achieved high availability (HA) and scalability with a single flexible and cost-efficient “plug-and-play” building block.
Find out how Daikin optimized its IT infrastructure with StarWind.
Neuron Computer Services, LLC, an American Managed Services IT Provider (MSP), had problems with costly manual sneakernet offsite backups and data integrity due to the possibility of mechanical disk damage. As a possible solution, the company tried the Veeam Backup and Replication app, but it did not have cloud storage options and therefore could not completely exclude sneakernet backups. StarWind eliminated pain points with backing up data to external drives manually and secured the company’s private cloud. Thanks to StarWind, Neuron Computer Services, LLC no longer needs to worry about data loss, shipment errors or drive damages.
Find out how Neuron Computer Services, LLC eliminated the issue of costly sneakernet backups with the help of StarWind.
