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.

VMware is not a newbie in IT security sport. Their work presents an impressive portfolio, with such solutions as AppDefense, vRealize Network Insight, and NSX-T/NSX-V. In March 2019, VMware introduced the first Service-defined Firewall, their endgame. Take a closer look under the hood to find out how it came to be a real game changer in the world of virtualized environment security.

Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization professional, to find out how VMware Service-defined Firewall became the last word in virtualization security.

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 video about the full scoop of creating backups and go up the ladder with Wasabi cloud storage!

Hotels Unlimited, a U.S. hospitality company, had Microsoft Hyper-V servers and shared storage that lacked the performance and appropriate level of fault tolerance (FT). In terms of scalability, the company’s profile required to grow storage and compute resources separately, so hyperconvergence wasn’t really an option…

Get to know how Hotels Unlimited obtained highly available (HA) storage using their server vendor of choice powered by StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN).

VM tools and VM hardware compatibility are vital for your VMs to run, but before updating it, you better be sure you need the features an upgrade can offer. Otherwise, it is a pig in a poke. VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 (U1) sounds familiar? In that case, you will be interested in finding out what you can do with VMware Update Manager (VUM).

Read the article by Vladan Seget, an IT and Virtualization consultant, to find out how to update VM hardware compatibility via vSphere Update Manager (VUM).

The Greenwich Board of Education, the governing body of an American school district, faced problems with irregular downtime and needed a shared storage cluster to fix them once and forever. They were looking for a cost-efficient solution suitable for Hyper-V, applicable for use on their existing servers. The Greenwich Board of Education moved their virtual machines to the StarWind-based HCI (hyperconverged) cluster, thereby performing maintenance without service outages.

Find out how the Greenwich Board of Education built a cluster with StarWind and saved $20 000 in 3 years.

Business needs are changing dynamically all the time. Quick Bridge Funding LLC, a U.S. company providing financial help for small and medium businesses (SMBs & SMEs), was looking for a solution that could fully satisfy its needs and assure data high availability (HA) and easy scalability. The company also wanted to keep its existing hardware. Thanks to StarWind, Quick Bridge Funding LLC built flexible and HA shared storage using off-the-shelf existing server hardware.

Find out how Quick Bridge Funding LLC achieved HA in a cost-efficient way with StarWind.

How to save money and maintain integrity of your data with LTO? By no means. If you save your money on the purchase of some modern physical tape drive for backup purpose, you spend twice as much on maintaining media in your datacenter. It’s going round in circles, agree? But you have the opportunity to get rid of all these inconveniences and access your data anytime and securely store it locally with flexible tiering and replication to Backblaze (B2) Cloud Storage. And save your money! We do not urge you to take our word for it. We invite you to visualize your benefits for the decades ahead with our calculator. LTO Vs B2.

Check for yourself what it means to have StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze in your IT infrastructure at the following link

Do you have a website with static pages to host and look for a cost-efficient solution? We have good news for you since Microsoft released a hosting on an Azure storage account. Azure immediately wins Adios IIS/Apache servers, because the latter are expensive in resources and maintenance. Don’t pay over the odds!

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out about storage costs and how to create a new storage account on Azure at the following link

Children’s Institute, a U.S. Gov’t Agency providing social services to children, required a fast and easy way to recover their production in case of a Hyper-V host failure. With their existing IT infrastructure that included standalone servers with Hyper-V on top, there was no high availability (HA) of business applications as well as the necessary protection of the agency’s business-critical data was missing. StarWind unleased this possibility to provide 100% service uptime, ensured unbeatable critical data integrity, and created a highly available and fault-tolerant (FT) IT environment at an affordable price.

Find out how Children’s Institute leveraged StarWind to prevent problems resulting in Hyper-V hosts failure.

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.