Siemens Parcel & Airport Logistics Private Limited, a logistics solutions provider, used physical SAN as part of their IT infrastructure serving their customers. A physical SAN was very expensive to maintain and entailed the problem of hardware clutter. StarWind eliminated any need in physical shared storage and ensured high availability (HA) of the company’s IT infrastructure without breaking its budget.

Learn from this success story how Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics Private Limited got a properly sized IT environment and reduced IT operational costs with StarWind.

Daboula, an IT consulting company, used obsolete servers in the failover cluster. The existing infrastructure required redundant storage at the physical level and very different hardware. Still, it would not ensure uptime in case of failure.

Discover from this success story how StarWind helped Daboula to facilitate efficient storage utilization and avoid downtime.

You may have different reasons for moving the K2 database to a new SQL server instance. But there are mandatory steps you need to follow to complete this action successfully. You need to backup and restore all the data of the K2 database to a new SQL Server instance, do encryption/decryption operations, and many other things. But how can you protect your data and ensure minimum downtime?

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer, to find out how to migrate the K2 database to a different SQL Server instance safely and effectively at the following link

Missile on site! Three, two, one… Yikes! Your on-premises storage infrastructure has suddenly crashed. What to do? Don’t worry. Use StarWind Storage Gateway for Wasabi to securely integrate your on-premises storage infrastructure and pay 2,5 less then AWS or Azure charges you now for cloud backup storage. StarWind is a virtualization pioneer focused on delivering Software-Defined Storage and HyperConverged Infrastructure solutions and Wasabi is the cloud/object storage provider. Take advantage of the solutions of both companies! Easily deploy Wasabi hot cloud storage as an economical and reliable place for backup and recovery or archival purposes and scale as needed without effort. Simplicity, reliability, and cost-efficiency – that’s all about StarWind Storage Gateway for Wasabi.

Onwards and upwards! Find out more about StarWind Storage Gateway for Wasabi at the following link.

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 at the following link.

Do you have problems with lack of space when using SQL express or setting up ODBC parameters before installing vCenter? So it's time for you to think about VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) - a pre-configured virtual appliance running Linux (Project Photon OS). It has been optimized specifically for vCenter services. What about the scale? VCSA supports up to 2000 hosts or 3500 VMs per appliance. Sounds good, right? In addition, VCSA provides enhanced security. Why wait? Take a step into the future!

Read the article by Vladan Seget, IT and Virtualization consultant, to find out how to migrate VMware vCenter server from Windows to VCSA 6.7 Update 1.

Windows Admin Center offers a great web interface for managing Windows Server. Microsoft's desire to bring the capabilities of the hybrid cloud to on-premises systems has led to the inclusion of the Azure Backup feature in Windows Admin Center. Now you can configure Azure Backup for your Windows Server with just a few clicks and save your time and resources. This is especially suitable for those who have a small environment in a data center. Or maybe it is hosted by another service provider, where having your own backup infrastructure does not make much sense.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant, to find out how to configure Azure Backup from Windows Admin Center at the following link.

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 at the following link.

Are you a VMware or Hyper-V user, or maybe a system administrator who wants to deploy a stretched cluster in your IT environment? Do you experience any difficulties in this process or want to keep your data secure under any unforeseen circumstances, including hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes? We will answer all your questions and tell tips and tricks on how to build the cluster between different separate geographical locations and do not lose the mission-critical data. A stretched cluster allows combining servers into a single system, providing high availability (HA) and load balancing. With its help, you can easily migrate your VMs from one place to another and make sure of the safety of your data even during an earthquake of 12.0 scores on the Richter scale!

Learn from the upcoming free webinar about a stretched cluster differentiation, replication options for it, different deployment scenarios, ways to secure data and prevent split brain.

PowerApps is a corporate service that allows you to create, connect, and share business applications with your team. This happens in minutes and from any device. With PowerApps, you not only optimize the work of your team but also contribute to the implementation of innovative ideas in business activities. And guess what? You can create a PowerApps application by yourself for a SharePoint list. Have no idea how?

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to create a PowerApps application for a SharePoint list with Azure Function.

Previously, South Gibson School Corporation, the largest public school in Gibson County, Indiana, was running an aged non-virtualized environment. Management of the system with multiple servers, each of those dedicated to a separate service, was rather exhausting. Optimization and modernization were badly needed. Instead of just replacing old hardware items the company decided to let StarWind break into its existing IT infrastructure and do its job.

Learn more about gains of South Gibson School Corporation owing to StarWind.

VMware's release of vSphere 6.7 U was launched in October 2018. What's new? This release includes the necessary tools for convergence and repointing. An external Platform Services Controller (PSC) has sunk into oblivion and the client can move to a simplified embedded deployment. The HTML5 based vSphere Client is now fully functional and the vSphere SSO domain has gained more flexibility with support for embedded repointing. Not bad, right? Catch this wave!

Read the article by Vladan Seget, IT and Virtualization consultant, to find out how to install and configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 U1 (VCSA).

KEMP's main product is LoadMaster, a load balancer, which allows you to work with dozens of web applications. The problem is that some web resources do not include an authentication form, as for example SSO. Therefore, moving to these applications through Kemp, the security of your data is at risk. But don’t worry! ESP or Edge Security Pack is an authentication form provided by Kemp and presented to clients before accessing the web applications.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant, to find out how to configure ESP on a virtual service and provide with access only those users that belong to an Active Directory Group.

Lipman Insurance Administrators Inc., a U.S. company specializing in employee benefits administration, had a mixed Windows/Unix environment with dedicated servers and clusters of servers for each business application with Microsoft Hyper-V on top. Such an infrastructure provided for a multitude of hardware items and expensive support contracts with very little data redundancy. What kind of infrastructure do we have in the end? Time-consuming, inefficient, costly, problematic, and complicated. StarWind became a game-changer and allowed creating a high-performing, high-functional, fault-tolerant, highly available, reliable, and easy-to-use environment.

Find out how Lipman Insurance Administrators achieved IT infrastructure optimization with StarWind.

Are you a Windows Infrastructure Administrator and looking for the best option of managing Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) that will tick all the boxes? We’ll help you slice and dice this question with a detailed analysis of Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT), Microsoft Windows PowerShell, 5nine Manager, Windows Admin Center (WAC), and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). Eliminate all malfunctions and fortify server workloads with a WSFC management option that satisfies all your requirements!

Learn from the video about different WSFC management solutions, pros and cons of each, and choose the best for you.

Let's imagine a situation: a power outage went out and an incorrect server shutdown has occurred. Everything is aggravated by the fact that you have no power backup. What will happen to your write operations? They sink into oblivion and data will be lost. But StarWind says “no” to these troubles! Log-structured Write-Back Cache (LWC) is a StarWind feature which speeds up the processing of write requests and saves data when the server is incorrectly shut down. What about RAM caching? Your data also will be saved.

Read the article by Boris Yurchenko, StarWind Tech Support Engineer, to find out how to configure StarWind Log-structured Write-Back Cache.

A webhook is a method of extending or changing the behavior of a web page or web application using custom callbacks. In the case of SharePoint, webhooks allow you to track all changes that are on the site as well as receive notifications about specific events.

With Azure Functions, you can host your SharePoint webhooks in a romp!

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to call an Azure Function webhook for SharePoint list items.

The golden rule for the safety of your data is as follows: always back up and distribute copies to different locations. However, the choice of backup environments can be accompanied by high-cost issues, security concerns, the risk of service interruption/termination, and so on. Storing your data in the cloud seems to be the most optimal solution. But even here you may encounter certain troubles such as the need to pay for all services, subscriptions, service plans, and configuration of a public cloud storage provider.

Do you want to know about a backup storage solution that eliminates the drawbacks of costly backup processes and meets regulatory data archival and retention requirements?

Read the article by Oleg Pankevych, StarWind Pre-Sales engineer, to find out how about Wasabi + VEEAM + StarWind formula and how it meets the 3-2-1 backup strategy.

A reverse proxy is a service that sits in front of one or more servers and accepts requests from clients for resources that are located on the server or servers. From a client point of view, a reverse proxy looks like a web server and can be easily used for remote access.
The Kemp LoadMaster platform provides reverse proxy services that expand the range of workloads and provide access to dozens of web applications via a single IP address/port. Set up a reverse proxy server on the LoadMaster and get the perfect point in the network to control traffic and optimize performance!

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant, to find out how to configure a reverse proxy manually!

In October 2018, SharePoint Server 2019 became available to the public. Compared to SharePoint 2016, the new release attempts to prepare the user for the hybrid route and move to the cloud.

Do you need to design and build your SharePoint based solutions and infrastructures with the cloud in mind, even if you still install on-premise version?

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, StarWind IT engineer, to find out how to install SharePoint 2019 on top of Windows Server 2019.