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.

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!