Pekao Financial Services, a company specializing in providing financial outsourcing services, required a storage replication solution to ensure the safety and integrity of its data. The company had a VMware vSphere environment where a fault tolerance (FT) could not be achieved at a price affordable to SMB. With StarWind, Pekao Financial Services built the required storage replication system and achieved fault tolerance and high availability (HA) of its data paying only 1/10th of a typical competitor’s MSRP.

Find out how Pekao Financial Services built a storage replication system and ensured the safety and integrity of company data, all with StarWind.

DERMA E, a U.S. company manufacturing and distributing ecologically friendly skin care products, had a VMware cluster but with no failover capability. Moreover, the existing VMware solution was no longer supported. Based on those inconveniences, DERMA E decides to switch to a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to keep its environment functional. Thanks to StarWind, DERMA E increased the storage pool and created a complete failover environment paying just a half of what the competitor asked for.

Find out how DERMA E built HCI at a reasonable price with StarWind.

Admittedly, Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform that is friendly and useful enough for every business person. It provides a varying range of possibilities, including cloud file storage. However, these files are fragile, for even a missed click can become a huge inconvenience. It is only reasonable to go on further with exploring Azure services and learn how to protect your data with Azure Backup.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft Expert, to find out how to protect your files using Azure Recovery Service Vault.

Websites serving a large number of requests or providing services require high uptime. Here AMP (Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack comes. It performs a logical pooling of resources, distributing workloads across multiple servers. So, with AMP stack you receive improved performance and high availability (HA) of your services.

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer, to find out how to install AMP stack on Ubuntu Server 18.04.2 at the following link

Are you an IT Manager, IT Specialist, or a System Backup Administrator looking for high-performing and cost-efficient cloud object storage? Please meet, Wasabi hot cloud storage! Wasabi is easy to understand, easy to use, and incredibly cost-effective to scale. It provides high-performing and enterprise-level cloud object storage to satisfy the 3-2-1 backup rule. This is really a tidbit for SMBs! But are there some pitfalls? Why is it important to follow the “3-2-1” backup rule? Do any other cloud object storage “major players” exist?

Learn from the upcoming webinar about the full scoop of creating backups and go up the ladder with Wasabi cloud storage!

TechHQ, an independent tech news website, disputes the view that hyperconvergence is only for high-end enterprises with huge budgets. From now on, the pendulum swung toward SMB and ROBO. StarWind allows building a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for less than half a Tesla Model 3. Why is hyperconvergence no longer an abstraction, and why virtualized storage becomes more accessible?

Read the article at TechHQ to find out more about the winds of hyperconverged change at the following link

Managing several DNS zones is hard because the interface is changing with a provider, and it's not user-friendly. However, you can leave troubling interface and manual DNS record creation behind and start managing DNS zone from the Azure Portal. Whether you are a Microsoft Azure user, or you already have a DNS zone, you can use it still!

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft Expert, to find out how to manage your public DNS from Azure cloud

“StarWind’s vision and value proposition are clear.” That’s what Storage Switzerland says, an analyst firm focused on the storage, virtualization and cloud marketplaces, providing a peer review of StarWind's hard- and software products. What is critical for IT infrastructure? It should just work delivering constant application and data availability. What is critical for SMBs and ROBOs moving to hyperconvergence? Simplifying management and cutting costs.

Read the article and find out why StarWind justifies the Swiss trust in the HCI market at the following link

Symmetry Software, an American company specializing in payroll tax services, had problems diverse and unstructured backup environment. They were looking for the solution to move all their backups to one location without costly changes to the company’s IT infrastructure. Symmetry Software was able to move all their backups to the cloud without additional payments with StarWind.

Find out how Symmetry Software found an efficient backup solution with StarWind without extra expenses.

Are you a Windows Server user or system administrator constantly monitoring Windows operating system updates and looking for innovative solutions for your IT infrastructure? We want to help you gain insight into new storage capabilities in Windows Server 2019. What is Storage Migration Service and what improvements have been added to Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica? How can you store up to 10 times more data on the same volume with data deduplication and compression for the ReFS filesystem?

Learn from the video about all updates in storage in Windows Server 2019 and decide for yourself “to be, or not to be” with Windows Server 2019.

Everything that needs to be said about the importance of project management automatization and workflow organization has already been said. You have learned how to create your first Azure DevOps build with a Terraform file, so now it is time to finally learn how to automatize your Terraform resource deployment with Azure DevOps.

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to create a release to deploy Terraform template with Azure DevOps.

The global Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Market is growing every day. It is already far from beta testing offering viable solutions with numerous benefits for companies of any size. TechHQ, an independent tech news website, shares its vision of why hyperconvergence matters... and why StarWind is among the three suppliers of hyperconvergence technology and ready to go big, breaking the myth that hyperconvergence is available only for organizations with billion-dollar turnovers. So, why does hyperconvergence matter?

Read the article at TechHQ to find the answer not only to this question at the following link

The Roscoe Company, a U.S. corporate garment supplier and managed service provider (MSP), faced a problem of no real redundancy and a complete lack of a disaster recovery (DR) plan when servicing one of its clients. The existing client company’s IT infrastructure had stand-alone Microsoft Hyper-V hosts with a few VMs. In the event of a power outage, the company suffered significant losses due to downtime and data loss. Thanks to StarWind, The Roscoe Company built a stretched cluster and ensured fault tolerance (FT) and implemented a solid DR plan for its client.

Find out from this success story how The Roscoe Company reduces Recovery Time Objective (RTO) by 70% and achieves 100% uptime thanks to StarWind.

Project management and automatized workflow are the milestones of any business, but small companies often have neither resources nor the experience to build them from scratch. That is when Azure DevOps enters the scene! This guide lets Terraform users learn how to optimize their workflow with Azure.

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to automate the deployment of resources using Azure DevOps in integration with this software tool.

Probably, everyone asked that question when finding out about the support function for persistent memory disks inside a virtual machine (VM) in Windows Server 2019 with the Hyper-V role. Persistent memory disks are good when we need a very high speed and very low latency. Some vendors can provide persistent memory disk option for you in their storage offerings. But why mapping persistent memory storage via the hypervisor host is so important?

Read the article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft expert, to find out why persistent memory disks do matter and how to consume them in a VM running on Hyper-V at the following link

The hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market has moved past its juvenile stages. Both product offer and vendor consolidation are witnessing that. Owners of small-to-midsized businesses and ROBO can learn what HCI is in 2019, why should it matter, and find out how exactly can they increase performance with vendors like StarWind.
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In public could hosting, whether it is Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, you deal with security credentials. For every business, securing data, protecting information, or delegating access are vital. Identity Access Management (IAM) is a framework that helps to distribute access policies and account protection, and it can serve your needs specifically. Learn what exactly it is and why you should care!

Read the article by Gary Williams, a systems administrator, to find out why IAM matters and why you should use it.

We live in a post-truth world where objective factors already have little influence on the formation of public opinion. The last word is determined by a private view and lively emotions. How to choose the Best Software Defined Storage (SDS) Vendor? Only find out the truth first-hand from customers who have already chosen this or that SDS solution.

Read what the clients say about StarWind as an SDS vendor and find the truth for yourself at IT Central Station, an online review platform, at the following link

The infoShare Conference in Gdańsk, May 8-9, 2019, is easily the most significant event in the technical sphere in Central and Eastern Europe. Meeting the world of innovative technologies, making useful connections, and discussing the future of technology and IT are at the table. Cyberpunk-themed Before Party sponsored by StarWind introduces you to the event before the official part starts!

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A database (DB) management system is vital for any infrastructure. To control your data and protect it, you need to keep it organized. However, having a tool doesn't mean knowing how to use it, so find out how to structure originally unstructured data using SQL Server FILESTREAM feature.

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer, to find out how to use SQL Server FILESTREAM feature and why.