Infrastructure storage offers from popular vendors get pricier and licensing more complex. To counter that, the open-source community emerged with its own solutions. But, frequently, both sysadmins and decision-makers don’t have enough understanding of open source. Tune in to learn about open-source storage software, pros/cons, support, principles, and popular offers.

Register now for the StarWind's upcoming webinar to get some great tips and tricks to balance out your regular pro-infrastructure purchases with these cool open-source storage software products.

Traditional support systems typically require different steps and a lot of time to resolve an issue. To make this process as simple as possible and completely remove time and efforts involved from the customer’s side, StarWind has introduced ProActive Support. It resolves issues before they can make any harm and allows customers to focus on innovation instead of monitoring their IT environment.

Learn how to save your time on babysitting your IT infrastructure with StarWind ProActive Support: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-proactive-support-prevent-issues-instead-of-dealing-with-the-consequences

Nobody’s perfect, and storage admins aren’t, too. The upcoming webinar will reveal cluster architectures that most probably will lead to production environment failure and data loss. It will explain in detail the most common mistakes that are made during building production clusters and review unwanted configurations.

Register now and learn how to avoid bad production cluster designs and secure your mission-critical data from any failures.

Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (SCO) is a powerful workflow management solution allowing to automate the creation, monitoring, and deployment of resources in the IT environment, as well as to manage different operating systems. Orchestrator uses a drag and drop graphical interface, providing a simplified and visual way of building complex automation.

Read the full article by Nicolas Prigent, a System Engineer, to learn how to upgrade SCO 2012 R2 to 2016.

HPE StoreVirtual VSA goes End-of-Life, meaning its users will be left without any support in case issues arise. StarWind VSAN offers free assisted migration, alleviating the stress and manual burden from HPE VSA customers. The webinar will introduce the special offer and cover the technicalities related to planning and executing the migration successfully.

Register now and learn about the balance of performance, cost-efficiency, and solid support you can get by choosing the assisted migration from HPE VSA to StarWind Virtual SAN.

StarWind works on the cutting edge of virtualization. We build reliable infrastructures that are powered by StarWind Virtual SAN, the high-performing, and fault-tolerant Software-Defined Storage platform. What is more, we offer the ProActive Support, the service aimed at the elimination of infrastructure problems before they result in severe failures. Last, StarWind Cloud VTL for AWS and Veeam accelerates the backup process and provides a ransomware-proof virtual vault for tapes.

Discover the power of StarWind hyperconvrged, SDS and backup solutions. https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-storage-solutions-for-any-needs?utm_source=mangolassi&utm_medium=mangolassi&utm_campaign=ecocast_webinar_09_08

PowerShell is a useful tool that can help you out a lot when it comes to managing and automating your vSphere-related tasks. Instead of doing everything manually and wasting time on the routine, you can use a set of scripts to automate things like VM deployment, etc. It will allow you to unload your day, have more space to take a breath, and perform other, more pressing work.

Register now to learn how to use PowerShell to simplify and speed up your vSphere routines and manage your environment in a more simplistic manner

First introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Availability Groups (AGs) were only available in Enterprise Edition, making it challenging to switch from Database Mirroring to AGs, especially in Standard Edition. Now, this problem is solved as SQL Server 2016 introduced Basic Availability Groups (BAGs) in Standard Edition, allowing customers to run some form of limited AGs. However, there is a small trick here. Unlike Database Mirroring, AGs require deploying a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) which in its turn requires setting up Active Directory (AD).

Sounds challenging? Don’t worry, in this post, we’ll show you how to deploy BAGs without implementing Active Directory.

Read the full article by Edwin M Sarmiento, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Microsoft Certified Master to learn more.

Just recently, achieving 100% of the theoretical limit of underlying storage performance was an ambition. Today, StarWind HyperConverged Appliance high-performance stack using Intel Optane SSDs as its write-back cache achieved it for real: 26.8 million IOPS scored! Soon, StarWind plans to bring such record-breaking performance to the mainstream.

Read the Solution Brief by Intel explaining how StarWind was able to achieve such performance levels using Intel Optane SSDs and how StarWind plans to make it accessible to SMB & ROBO in the near future.

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You can now try out the StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) user experience yourself virtually before committing to a purchase.

StarWind HCI Evaluation Kit leverages nested virtualization and streamlined installation. It deploys a Hyper-V sandbox cluster where you can test drive StarWind VSAN along with StarWind Command Center and other HCA features before investing in the real thing for your business’ production purposes.

Download the new StarWind HCI Evaluation Kit and play around with what the user-praised full StarWind experience has to offer before you buy it yourself.

With StarWind ProActive Support, there is no more need to constantly monitor your environment and submit support tickets to multiple vendors.
StarWind ProActive Support AI, failure pattern detection, predictions, and BigData analysis will do all the job for you and inform our support team about potential issues, allowing to resolve them before they even appear. So, what you ultimately get is a solution, not a problem.

Learn how StarWind ProActive Support will resolve your IT infrastructure support pain: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-proactive-support-is-a-remedy-to-it-infrastructure-support-pain

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Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Basic Availability Groups (BAGs) replace the deprecated Database Mirroring feature and deliver a high availability solution for mission-critical databases in Standard Edition.
Sure, the process of implementing BAGs without Active Directory is not an easy task. But, it does give you a very deep understanding of what makes it work – from the external dependencies like networking and DNS to the different processes that make up SQL Server Always On Availability Groups.

Read the full article by Edwin M Sarmiento, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Microsoft Certified Master to learn how to deploy Basic Availability Groups without Active Directory.

This free video explains the start behind ZFS and how it came to be what it is today. You will learn about its main operational principles and structure, as well as about its existing features, like RAIDZ, and more recent ones, like dRAID. The video will also discuss which popular products already make use of ZFS technology, and what to expect from ZFS down the road.

Watch this StarWind video now and learn about the brilliance behind ZFS core functionality and features.

Network File System (NFS) is a handy solution when you need to give the transparent remote access to the files over the network. What is more, the functionality of the NFS file server allows creating access lists for users and manage the permissions to the files. On top of that, you can access files in the NFS share as fast as if they were stored locally.

Read the full article by Alex Khorolets, a technical support engineer at StarWind, to learn how to access your files remotely using NFS.

You can greatly boost your business IT infrastructure performance and ROI right here and right now. Make a present for your business today! Choose a convenient subscription model or pay in installments to redeem your license later. Pick the software solution from StarWind that speaks to your needs the most and just go for it.

Click on the link, request the financing or subscription terms for your chosen StarWind software product, start using it today, pay as you go.

It’s literally impossible to make a proper decision when choosing between private and public cloud. So, instead of endless comparison, go for StarWind Hybrid Cloud and get the best of both clouds in a single solution. StarWind Hybrid Cloud seamlessly integrates into any environment and fits any company, be it an SMB or Enterprise.

Join our webinar to learn more about the benefits of StarWind Hybrid Cloud and why it’s better than other solutions present on the market.

Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/hybrid-cloud-combining-the-best-of-private-and-public-clouds

Our work policies have always been user-centered. Just like we build bespoke solutions for our customers, now, as the pandemic consequences continue, we want to help out some more. StarWind now offers Equipment Financing for its hardware solutions. The terms are transparent, customer-oriented, and the plan can be tied to your revenue.

No need to save up forever. Click on the link, request the financing terms, immeasurably boost your IT infrastructure with StarWind hardware today — pay later.

SMB3 is the latest version of a Server Message Block protocol that was introduced back in Windows Server 2012. Each release included some new features and improvements, so now SMB3 comes with a set of such useful capabilities like SMB Transparent Failover, SMB Encryption, VSS for SMB file shares, SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA), and SMB Multichannel. All of this makes SMB3 a perfect option when creating a Highly Available Network Share within the Windows Server Failover Cluster.

Read the full article by Ivan Talaichuk, a Solutions Engineer at StarWind, to learn how to create a high-performing and highly available Scale-Out File Server using SMB3.