We all can get too wrapped up in our daily work, chores, and thoughts. Often times, it results in us forgetting to renew stuff, like the Windows Admin Center certificate, for example. Luckily, renewing it and updating it in the WAC itself takes just a few moments.
Read this short post by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Azure MVP, where he shows how to update your renewed certificate in the Windows Admin Center configuration panel.
Algenol Biotech, an American biotechnology company, had no reliable backup storage solution. Although the company used another vendor's VTL for a different Hyper-V-governed backup solution, the price it demanded and the functionality it provided were unsatisfactory. Algenol Biotech sought for a VTL for the production part of the enterprise. Thanks to StarWind, the company got the most reliable and easy-to-use backup storage solution that suited its technological and financial demands.
Find out how Algenol Biotech augments reliability in the backup and archival process for its production part with StarWind
SSTL Group, a Tanzanian security system installer and integrator, had an IT infrastructure located in several government buildings. The company required to create a failover cluster and minimize downtime with no need to buy additional servers. Thanks to StarWind, SSTL Group built a failover cluster and ensured high availability of applications and services without spending a great deal of money.
Find out how SSTL Group enhances its IT infrastructure failover capabilities and eliminates downtime with StarWind
It’s always the hardest to start something but, once you do, it’s all downhill from there. Then again, you may need some encouragement and guidance to begin. Microsoft Azure is a multi-dimensional cloud service of a grand scale and getting to know it may seem intimidating. But there’s an option to start free to get the hang of it.
Read the guide by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Azure MVP, to see how you can start up your free account and which features will be available for you during the trial period.
“Better HCI scalability and management functionality will result in 70 percent of enterprises running some form of HCI by 2023, up from less than 30 percent [in 2019].” Such is Gartner’s prediction and David Ramel of Converge360 agrees with it. With the use AI for automatic performance improvement and failure prevention, he says that HCIs will prevail.
Read the article by David Ramel for Virtualization & Cloud Review where he outlines the most important points from Garnter’s Magic Quadrant 2019 and provides his commentary on the topic.
Just as VMware’s Project Pacific implies, the plans for the further submergence into the world of containerized applications for vSphere clusters intends to deepen. VMware Tanzu Mission Control is to allow admins to manage Kubernetes clusters regardless of their residential environment. The tool is rumored to become the single base of all K8s cluster operations.
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization tech pro, and learn about the grand plans VMware has for Tanzu Mission Control within the scope of Project Pacific.
Businesses should choose only the best solution providers when switching to robust cloud infrastructures. To that end, CIOReview has published its Top 20 Most Promising IT Infrastructure Solution Providers 2019. The companies and solutions in this list bring the most cost-efficiency and technological potential to the CIO mapping and strategizing table, and StarWind HCA was recognized as just such one product.
Read the full article about how StarWind supports its customers’ business agility and continuity by enclosing a whole hyperconverged world in a single nuclear virtualization building block.
If you want your IT infrastructure to go virtual, you need to know all the angles. However good your hypervisor may be, there's always a catch. In this case, the potential of VMware ESXi doesn't matter if the hardware is not up to date. For the highest performance possible, learn a few fine-tuning tricks!
Read the article by Vladan Seget, an IT and Virtualization consultant, to find out what you should do to make sure your hardware will provide you with the best performance.
Managing various operations in a virtualized environment usually calls for multiple tabs, each conforming to separate activities. Simplifying these operations and integrating them into a single GUI saves much time and effort to deal with other pressing matters. Windows Virtual Desktop can help you achieve just that from any host OS via Microsoft Azure.
Read the article by Romain Serre about deploying Windows Virtual Desktop to make your daily virtualization operations cohesive and seamless.
Managing queries across various Microsoft 365 services can be somewhat challenging. The interaction across these applications in your cluster should be prioritized to ensure smooth workload. One handy tool to do that is Microsoft Graph Explorer, which exposes REST APIs and client libraries to access data on the aforementioned services.
Read the quick guide by Nicolas Prigent, a Swiss Systems Engineer, to learn how Microsoft Graph can help you to build and test queries to interact with chosen Microsoft resources.