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.
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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.

What are composable infrastructures?

Having actual physical resources today as a foundation of IT infrastructure starts to look like an extravagant decision, to say the least. Why bother with extra resources, if you can make things happen faster, better, with less hardware footprint? However, virtualization development is far from the end. The latest idea on the horizon is the concept of composable infrastructures, which is more complicated than it sounds.

Read the article by Andrea Mauro, a Virtualization expert, to find out what composable infrastructures are.

StarWind participation at the VeeamON 2019 conference was not limited to mere presence. A speaker sheds light on what StarWind, being a leading vendor, has to offer to the customers, discusses the potential future of the tape libraries, and explains the services the company can provide in the sphere of backup and data protection. StarWind has a lot to talk to you about in the interview with Petri at the annual VeeamON cloud conference! Find out more.

Anyone who has ever heard of virtualization technology has heard of VMware. This company is one of the industry leaders, and instead of resting on its laurels continues to develop flagship projects such as vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS). The latest update of this product introduces quite a few new features and enhancements. You can not only find out about the pros and cons of vROPS 7.5 but how to deploy and configure it in the VMware environment!

Read the article by Vladan Seget, a Virtualization consultant, to find out about deployment and configuration of VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) 7.5 on vSphere 6.7.

StarWind is delighted to be included in the November 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s competitors. With this recognition, we feel that StarWind takes its place on the HCI stage.

StarWind HCI offering includes StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA), StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), and StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL).

Share this moment with the StarWind team and read more about Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

Anyone experienced in working with AMP stack on Ubuntu Server 18.04.02 realizes that this novelty, like any other, has its pros and cons. If you are used to convenient and useful Hyper-V enhanced session features, it may seem as though you have lost a shilling and found sixpence. Don't worry, with Ubuntu Server GUI remote access you can have your cake and eat it.

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer, to find out how to start configuring Ubuntu Server GUI remote access.

Formica Group, a U.S. company specializing in laminate manufacturing, had costly infrastructure overprovisioned on hardware resources and limited on storage. The company maintains equipment in three separate data centers with unique IT infrastructures in each running on different versions of VMware ESXi. Differences in such fundamentals as compute and storage allocation and backup procedures added complexity to a geographically diverse infrastructure. StarWind helped Formica Group to implement hyperconverged scenario, reduce hypervisor count from 22 to 8, and get rid of outdated and obsolete hardware resources.

Find out how Formica Group achieves high-performance infrastructure and saves expenses of IT budget on hardware with StarWind.

Simplify Technology, a U.S. managed IT services provider (MSP), required a hyperconverged (HCI) solution for its client company. The client originally had an IT infrastructure built around a single SAN and multiple standalone hosts with a varying number of different hypervisors. In other words, their client had a classic Single Point of Failure (SPOF) known as the “Inverted Pyramid of Doom.” Such architecture was expensive to maintain and scale (remember – SAN!) only making things worse. Moreover, with isolated standalone hosts, there was no required fault tolerance (FT) at all. StarWind helped the company to deploy a StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) solution at an affordable price on top of an ultra-fast Enterprise SSD storage while avoiding single points of failure.

Find out how Simplify Technology with the help of StarWind solved their initial problem with the SAN storage being a Single Point of Failure (SPOF, also know as “Inverted Pyramid of Doom”) and established high availability (HA) of its IT infrastructure even in extreme conditions.

RealTime Services, a U.S. company providing accounting and financial outsource services, had problems with licensing rented servers and slow storage operation. Every time when they wanted to increase their IT infrastructure performance, the competitor company tried to add another 1-2 years to the contract to extend the license. Thanks to StarWind RealTime Services got resilient and high-speed storage not worrying about its data protection and availability and not taking a lease on additional servers.

Find out how RealTime Services received a turnkey IT infrastructure building block delivering ultimate flexibility and performance with StarWind.

You can hardly find a more long-expected event in cloud data management sphere than VeeamON 2019 premier conference in Miami, May 20-22, 2019.

Attending breakout sessions with tracks on the latest industry trends and gaining insights from leaders of the industry are the primary reasons for visiting.

As a leading vendor, StarWind cannot miss an event of such scale and takes the stage as a bronze sponsor, booth #411!

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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 private and public cloud storages, such as AWS, Azure, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Active Scale, Ceph, or Cloudian? 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 upcoming webinar about leveraging your environment with storing backup data in both private and public cloud object storage!

Sherlock Holmes thought of the human brain as a crowded attic, where useful knowledge may simply get lost. Well, thanks to Azure File Sync, your IT environment won't suffer the same fate. Find out how to synchronize data between file servers and Azure with this service. You can also enable tiering between file servers and Azure File Sync!

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft Expert, to find out how to enable Azure File Sync from Windows Admin Center.

PROJECT Investment Group, a German company specializing in real estate investing, had problems with slow work, unreliability, and the high price of DataCore's SANsymphony. They were looking for a new shared storage provider whose solution fits compute and storage separated architecture of the company’s IT infrastructure. Thanks to StarWind, PROJECT Investment Group no longer needs to worry about its data security and buy additional hardware resources. The company saved money and gained space to grow without compromising infrastructure performance.

Find out how PROJECT Investment Group received a reliable and cost-efficient shared storage solution for compute and storage separated scenario with StarWind.

Everyone knows about the Group of Seven (G7) - countries with the largest IMF-described global economy. But, did you know that “G7” also exists in the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market? It was named by Hyperconverged Infrastructure Market Report 2018-2024 offering a comprehensive valuation of the marketplace. “G7” in the HCI market includes Nutanix, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, VMware, Pivot3, DellEMC, and… StarWind! StarWind is among HCI key players according to an independent valuation of Global Hyperconverged Infrastructure Market. Why?

Read the report to find out about the latest trends in the HCI market and StarWind “G7” value proposition at the following link.

Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA), a Canadian Government Agency, had an aging Fibre Channel (FC) HP P2000 SAN they really needed to phase out. The idea was NOT to spend thousands of dollars anymore just to update the controllers and get some new drives but to go to Software-Defined Storage (SDS) instead. StarWind allowed the agency to turn their existing servers and other equipment into a high performance and fully fault tolerant (FT) iSCSI/ISER SAN at a very reasonable price.

Learn from this success story how Grand River Conservation Authority cuts their IT budget expenditures still getting better performance and all with the help from StarWind.