Ciena Healthcare, a US provider of rehabilitation care communities, had a vendor lock-in unscalable IT infrastructure that resulted in high IT operational expenses. With the aim of getting flexibility, the organization needed virtual shared storage. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Ciena Healthcare creates a high availability (HA) cluster and builds a scalable IT environment allowing for adding resources as it goes.

Find out how Ciena Healthcare saves more than $80,000 in upfront cost immediately after a StarWind vSAN deployment.

Once again, StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked among the very best software-defined storage (SDS) solutions by actual consumers. vSAN from StarWind is rated 10 out of 10 points by PeerSpot users on average. Such rating has been consistent over the years, as StarWind continues to develop its software as the IT and business needs grow and change.

Click on the link to see PeerSpot Best SDS Solutions 2022 to learn what users say about StarWind vSAN and find out who else ended up on the list.

Corporations usually take a long time to integrate HQ innovations into their ROBO locations due to the high cost of IT infrastructure updates to fit the adapted novelties. Westmoreland Mining LLC, a US-based mining & metal company, was at a similar crossroads, too, looking to upgrade its ROBO locations’ IT infrastructure (legacy SAN plus vSphere) to fit new sustainable production demands. Using StarWind HCI Appliances (HCAs), Westmoreland Mining replaces its existing end-of-life hardware while introducing high-performing HCI without breaking the bank.

Find out how Westmoreland Mining enhances its sustainability approach to business and mining at remote locations thanks to StarWind HCAs.

VMware Imager allows automating the process of building Windows 10 virtual machines. Instead of setting up a Golden VM image, you can choose the desired features in Imager and set off the pipeline. This eases the admin routine, reducing reliance on a specific task and human errors. You can stop the process at any stage and tweak stuff, too.

Read the new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, on the Free VMware Imager features and which steps to follow to automate Windows 10 VM deployment.

CRN’s Storage 100 list is selected by a panel of CRN editors and recognizes vendors across software-defined storage, data protection, data management, and storage components. The vendors recognized on the 2022 Storage 100 list were selected because of their demonstrated commitment to developing cutting-edge technology and building strategic partnerships.

Check out the fresh CRN’s Storage 100 and see who made it to Top 50 Coolest Software-Defined Storage Vendors 2022 along with StarWind.

In addition to using Azure Portal, there is also the ability to migrate desired resources using CLI (command-line interface). This way, you can bypass the long waiting time for the Portal to perform validation and then enact the move. Instead, you can type in certain commands and start moving resources to another group, subscription, or region right away.

Read the guide by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, on how to easily move your Azure resources with a few simple commands using CLI to save valuable routine time.

News Corp Australia, an Australian media conglomerate, ran into the sand because of its aging physical storage and puzzled IT infrastructure management. So, the company was looking for virtual shared storage to achieve simplicity in storage management. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), News Corp Australia moves to hyperconvergence, renovates its IT infrastructure, and gets deftly managed storage.

Find out how News Corp Australia boosts its business development thanks to StarWind vSAN.

Cork Supply USA, an American wine cork supplier, was keen on an upgraded enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that would provide simplicity and flexibility in management and bring redundancy to data processing. Using StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), the company got the all-rolled-into-one solution: ERP requirements, redundancy, minimum downtime, and peace of mind. On top of that, Cork Supply USA reduced physical infrastructure and got much-needed space for business growth and implementation of new business ventures.

Find out how Cork Supply USA receives a new-look IT infrastructure with advanced capabilities thanks to StarWind HCA.

Although Microsoft continues to increase its Windows Server and Azure presence, most businesses still prefer a hybrid environment. Managing a hybrid cloud is more complicated, as you also need to operationalize your on-premises IT environment at scale. Here is where System Center comes into play, along with its new functionality.

Read the article by Brandon Lee, a virtualization expert, on Microsoft System Center, its new 2022 features, and the benefits it brings to managing a hybrid cloud environment.

Tryon International Equestrian Center, a US resort and horse sports facility, needed to cut its high hardware costs caused by the maintenance of its old IT infrastructure. The company had a VMware virtualized non-HA cluster and wanted to achieve high availability with two nodes. Using StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Tryon International Equestrian Center replaces its aging servers, creates a high-quality HA setup with only two nodes, and saves immediately more than $25K in hardware cost.

Find out how Tryon International Equestrian Center builds a hyperconverged IT infrastructure powered by StarWind HCA.

Farmers & Merchants Bank, a US-based financial institution, needed to cut heavy Microsoft Server 2019 and Dell EqualLogic SAN maintenance costs. So, the bank was looking for a shared storage solution providing a high intensity of I/O operations and eliminating the necessity to purchase additional SAN hardware. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Farmers & Merchants Bank builds a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and saves $60,000 on its IT operational expenses.

Find out how Farmers & Merchants Bank gets a highly available (HA) IT environment thanks to StarWind vSAN.

The software provides the ability to configure the entirety of a user’s profile at scale. It’s designated for cloud desktops, physical desktops, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with VMware Horizon, and remote desktop services (RDS). You can configure the entirety of the user’s experience as well as the desired relevant OS settings.

Read the new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, on the features of VMware Dynamic Environment Manager and its usefulness for VDI OS configuration.

Modern businesses deal with an ever-growing amount of systems and networking devices, which, in turn, deal with an insane amount of IP addresses. Keeping track of such IP addresses is a real problem. iTOP Combodo has a useful piece of software that’s been developed just with these problems in mind.

Read the new article by Karim Buzdar on TeemIP, an open-source tool that allows for handy management and upkeep of your organization’s IP addresses.

American Data Technology, Inc. (ADTI), a US-based managed IT services provider (MSP), needed to build a high-performance IT infrastructure that would meet the growing company's needs and customer requirements. The existing IT infrastructure had many drawbacks, including size limitations, performance, technical management, and redundancy. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), ADTI moves to hyperconvergence and achieves the required redundancy, scalability, ease of management, reliability, all at a reasonable cost and within the existing budget needs.

Find out how ADTI saves tens of thousands of dollars on its IT operational expenses with StarWind vSAN.

Although hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is not a new approach datacenter configuration, it has emerged as the standard for mission-critical IT infrastructure. While the big hyperconvergence players play vendor lock-in and feature paywalls, the trends are pushing for multi-compatibility and ease of scalability, all of which StarWind already provides.

Read the article by Brandon Lee of VirtualizationHowTo on the 2022 HCI trends and how StarWind HCI Appliance ticks every box set by the modern consumer.

Virtualization is inalienable from modern backup. Further abiding by its standard of bringing Enterprise-class hyperconvergence at a democratic price, StarWind will present its state-of-the-art Backup Appliance during the tech conference and show its future-ready features, powered by all-NVMe storage and NVMe-oF RAID.

Register in the link to attend VeeamON 2022 in person or virtually and find out how to make your backups ultra-fast and future-proof from StarWind Engineers themselves!

Hamden Hall Country Day School, an American independent day school, used to have aging hardware for their existing virtual environment. Its performance was disappointing, and the SAN system was prone to failure. Using StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Hamden Hall builds a hyperconverged IT infrastructure and accelerates the performance of its academic data recording system.

Find out how Hamden Hall Country Day School receives flawless performance, zero downtime, and fault tolerance thanks to StarWind HCA.

In Part 1, we discussed the technology behind Duo Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and how to configure it to protect the credentials for a Veeam hardened repository. We continue the cybersecurity topic, following the steps necessary for adding a public key authentication and making sure it works with the established configuration.

Read Part 2 of the article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft MVP, on how to enhance your Veeam hardened repository with Duo MFA while also using public-key authentication.

Queensland Tissue Products, an Australian manufacturing facility, struggled with the problem of high maintenance costs spent on storage systems. The company was looking for virtual shared storage to minimize the number of servers and in such a way to get its problem resolved. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Queensland Tissue Products builds a hyperconverged IT infrastructure, reduces its server estate, and achieves redundancy.

Find out how Queensland Tissue Products cuts down the running costs for storage systems thanks to StarWind vSAN.

Desktop and app virtualization and delivery platform VMware Horizon is one of the top products of VMware, and just recently it got even better with the latest release. If you're looking for more interesting details than there are in the Release Notes, take a look at a few enhancements that might have not gotten much spotlight.

Read the new article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization technology professional, about 7 useful features of VMware Horizon 8 2203.