VMware vSphere+ is an Enterprise hybrid subscription service, which provides a blend of on-prem vSphere plus VMware Cloud services through Cloud Gateway. In other words, it’s a combination of your current vSphere environment with SaaS-delivered VMware components from the VMware Cloud offering.
Read the article by Brandon Lee, a virtualization expert, on the new vSphere+ and what it means for the direction that VMware is signaling for its services in the future.
VMware Cloud Director Availability is a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution that creates a backup infrastructure in a public cloud. Its most recent upgrade has brought a lot of new possibilities to the table.
Read the new article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization technology professional, on what's new with VMware Cloud Director Availability and how to begin working with it.
TrustRadius has awarded StarWind VSAN and StarWind HCI Appliance several Best of Summer 2022 awards. Both products won Best Relationship and Best Feature Set in their respective categories for Software Defined Storage and Hyperconverged Infrastructure. StarWind is proud to receive these awards, as they are based on real-life consumer feedback!
Learn more about the TrustRadius Best of Summer 2022 Award and how StarWind receiving several of them can help your future IT infrastructure decision-making.
This invite-only Higher Education CIO Congress 2022 is called upon to discuss the questions of digital transformation, IT staffing, and strategic planning in post-Covid higher education. On August 7-9 in Capital Hilton, Washington D.C., the best professors and technology leaders will provide their vision of addressing the ramifications of the pandemic and ways of transforming challenges into opportunities. StarWind will also share its experience of successful teamwork for sustainable company growth during the pandemic and present the full set of its hyperconverged and virtualized solutions and technologies needed to ensure continual remote learning.
Comprehend the power of distance education with StarWind! Find out the full event description here.
Windows 11 22H2, aka Sun Valley 2, is the latest release of the Windows 11 Operating System (OS). Bringing new promising features, it provides the users with lots of possibilities that are definitely worth looking at.
Read the new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, on Windows 11 22H2, the latest major upgrade of Windows 11, and the steps needed to install it.
This StarWind video will focus on how you can benefit from adding ZFS to your infrastructure without going through a steep learning curve. Frequently, ZFS-based solutions on the market aren’t easy or straightforward in their integration into a virtualization environment. StarWind tackles that by presenting ZFS features in a streamlined software solution that you can add to your new, existing, or even aging hardware in just a few clicks.
Watch the video in the link to learn how StarWind SAN & NAS provides a simple way to add ZFS to your infrastructure and effectively use it in your virtualization environment.
CollectionCenter, Inc., a U.S. accounts receivables management services provider, needed to reduce its project expenses but always was restrained by its IT infrastructure with aging hardware and the lack of redundancy. Using StarWind HCI Appliance, CollectionCenter, Inc. creates a single hyperconverged high availability (HA) Hyper-V cluster with additional redundancy and cuts the overall project costs by half.
You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.
Windows Autopatch is a new cloud-centric way to streamline the process of updating OS instances across your IT environment. It is meant to take the heavy-lifting and complexity out of applying patches to your Windows clients registered in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. It’s applicable to Windows 10 &11, M365 for Enterprise, MS Edge and Teams.
Read the article by Brandon Lee, a virtualization expert, explaining how to make the OS update processes easier, autonomous, and simplified with Windows Autopatch.
Regina Catholic Schools, a Canadian school division, had no fault-tolerant IT environment that threatened its continuous operations. Its 2 Hyper-V on-prem servers hosted roughly 12-15 VMs that were migrated manually if one of the hosts went down. That took an extremely high amount of time and maintenance costs. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Regina Catholic Schools creates a high availability (HA) cluster with configured live VM migrations options and ensures 24/7 operations.
You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.
For Windows Server users, it’s necessary to run a current OS version to enjoy relevant support from Microsoft. However, some users, for one reason or another, may choose to run an obsolete WS version on a server. In this care, you will need to migrate your Root Certificate Authority (CA) to a newer WS version on a new server to assure everything works properly.
Read the new guide by Paolo Valsecchi, a virtualization expert, on what steps to take to correctly migrate your Microsoft Root CA to a new server.
Lake Erie College, a US higher education institution, had multiple aged hosts with VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V on top that entailed high operational expenses (OpEx). The college sought to build a hyperconverged infrastructure, gain a reliable backup process, ensure Hyper-V live migration, and minimize downtime. Using StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Lake Erie College moves to hyperconvergence, cuts its OpEx costs, and satisfies all the demands described above.
You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.
The traditional security model implies combining different solutions to increase safety. However, cyberattacks are constantly developing and becoming more sophisticated, which makes the "layered approach" fairly obsolete. That's why Microsoft has opted to concentrate on the hardware level instead. Meet Microsoft Pluton, a new step in the hardware chips evolution.
Read the article by Brandon Lee, a virtualization expert, that explains what the new Microsoft Pluton security chip actually is and how can it move security standards forward from Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips.
In the world of IT, the post-pandemic changes have brought new challenges to the table. An enterprise may employ dozens of remote workers from all over the world, but for security reasons, they may still have to establish network routes through the data center thousands of miles away. Well, thanks to VMware SASE, that'll hardly be a problem anymore.
Read the new article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization technology professional, that reviews the VMware Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) infrastructure, which grants remote access within the zero-trust network access (ZTNA) framework.
PAD Technologies Inc., a U.S.-based IT managed services provider (MSP), required high availability (HA) at the voice server level for its voice traffic to remain seamless under any circumstances and provide excellent service for its clients. The company used to work with a Microsoft Windows cluster on VMware but with no HA and redundancy. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), PAD Technologies Inc. deploys an HA cluster and ensures continuous operation of its voice traffic.
You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.
Microsoft Secured-Core PC Configuration Lock is a new feature that enables you to prevent configuration drift of secured-core PC settings and features. Secured-Core PCs united various layers of protection to combat the growing trend of attacks on kernel drivers. The Lock makes sure the secured-core PC remains secure no matter what.
Read the article by Brandon Lee, a virtualization expert, explaining how to enhance your security by using the new Secured-Core PC Configuration Lock.
StarWind offers the ability to test the waters of Enterprise-class storage virtualization before committing to the purchase in its vSAN Trial Version. However, users can also download StarWind vSAN Free and use it for their proof of concept or non-production deployments. The free version comes without enterprise support and is only operated via PowerShell.
Read the article by Brandon Lee of VirtualizationHowTo on what to expect from and how to interact with StarWind Virtual SAN Free.
East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo), USA-based, ISO-certified manufacturing company, reduces its IT capital expenses (CapEx) by $20K on a shared storage project by turning to StarWind and implementing a vSAN solution on a High Availability (HA) Microsoft cluster.
Read about how StarWind can do the same for your company here.
The Private Endpoint / Private Link / Private Link Service solution was launched by Microsoft mostly because of the need for private, more secure connectivity to its Azure services. Since its launch, the number of Azure services supporting Private Link has grown, and the list today is extensive. But what are they exactly?
Read the article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft MVP, on the importance of Service Endpoints and Private Link for using Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) flexibly and securely.
Moving forward with its ecosystem, VMware EXPLORE has just announced the coming of vSphere 8 later this year. As per usual, there are all kinds of changes coming. This time, however, more focus is placed on management and lifecycle simplification and unification. Changes will affect services like VMware Tanzu, ESXi, vCenter Recovery, and others.
Read the new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, on the significant changes you can expect with the arrival of the new VMware vSphere 8 in 2022.