H&R Reit, a Canadian real estate investment trust, had a single-server infrastructure subject to constant downtime due to a single point of failure (SPOF) problem. The environment lacked redundancy, resulting in an inappropriate amount of recovery time. The company was to look for a solution that used existing hardware resources even if they were dissimilar to avoid costly options of replacing them. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), H&R Reit creates a high availability (HA) cluster, ensures high applications uptime, moves to hyperconvergence, eliminates the SPOF risk, and achieves 24/7 business operations.

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

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Azure Active Directory (AD) allows managing connections so that users from certain countries can’t access your services. However, sometimes, VIPs can travel to one of such countries. To address that, you can deny access to all users in a country, allow connection from that country to certain users, or establish an approval workflow to allow travel with an access package.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, on how to manage connections to your Azure AD for users located in other countries to enhance your desired security.

DAZN Group, a global spectator sports company, had a non-redundant IT environment provoking swollen maintenance costs. Licensing costs of shared storage solutions from other vendors were judged prohibitive, so DAZN Group opted for a robust and customizable alternative from StarWind. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), DAZN Group creates a high availability (HA) cluster, achieves redundancy, and saves more than 30,000 euros on its IT operational expenses.

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

Daikin Vietnam, a Vietnamese air conditioning manufacturer, had a complex and inflexible IT infrastructure consisting of physical Hyper-V servers, storage, SAN, plus backup software – all from different vendors. The company wanted to move to hyperconvergence with the aim of cutting its maintenance costs. Using StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Daikin Vietnam unifies hardware and associated software resources in one “plug-and-play” building block, achieves scalability and flexibility, and reduces IT operational expenses.

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

Windows Update for Business recently introduced safeguard holds, which prevents a user from updating until an issue likely to happen is fixed. Previously, admins would deter from performing regular updates for various issues. Now, the manager uses machine learning to monitor millions of unmanaged PCs for rollback during upgrading for context. It pauses updates for users at potential issue risk and offers it again once the issue is dealt with.

Read the article by Brandon Lee, a virtualization expert, explaining how Windows Update for Business Safeguard Holds makes the updates easier and more reliable.

Microsoft recently added the ability to backup your blob storage data to Azure with Backup Center. Blob is object storage optimized for storing large amounts of unstructured data, which ranges from servicing images, documents, and streaming to writing to log files and disaster recovery. Now, you can backup your blob in a few clicks.

Read the guide by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, on how to perform handy backups of your blob storage to Azure via Backup Center.

Seneca Family of Agencies, a U.S.-based mental health services provider, experienced a financial burden due to its old server maintenance. Besides, an IT infrastructure was limited by storage issues and extensive patching times, which often needed to be completed off-hours. Using StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Seneca Family of Agencies replaces its aging servers, eliminates performance bottlenecks, achieves high availability (HA) at only two nodes, and reduces IT operational expenses.

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

The post-covid world has marked significant changes in many organizations' work, urging companies to rely more on distance communication between employees. Microsoft Teams is one of the most popular tools to maintain coordinated work, and it has a lot of useful functionality to offer, such as Adaptive Cards.

Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, an IT Production Manager, that explains how you can create Adaptive Cards in Microsoft Teams to share and displaying blocks of content within any channel.

Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA), a Canadian government agency, had an aging SAN that needed to be replaced. The idea was to achieve high availability (HA) and not to spend thousands of dollars on updates. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), GRCA creates an HA cluster, gets better performance, and ensures operation 24/7.

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

Ryman LTD, a British retail company, needed to reduce high IT operational expenses (OpEx), connected with maintenance of aging NAS devices. To solve its problem, the company wanted to move to hyperconvergence without buying additional shared storage hardware and not losing the flexibility options. By implementing StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Ryman LTD builds a hyperconverged infrastructure, replaces end-of-life NAS devices, and cuts its IT operational expenses.

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

The functioning of any enterprise IT infrastructure depends on multiple factors, which may or may not correlate with each other well. For instance, it is widely believed that security is slowing development processes. However, a secure Software Development Lifecycle will make sure that both your development and security teams deliver secure software with no delay.

Read the article by Benoit Voirin, a freelance Cyber Security consultant, that explains how you can design a secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) that reduces the risk of finding security vulnerabilities in your applications.

This StarWind webinar will focus on a “green” approach to IT infrastructure that can greatly improve budgeting for small- and midsize enterprises (SMEs). Powering a server rack or a full data center can result in high operating expenses (OPEX), due to a variety of both commonly known and hidden factors. Fortunately, you can save up a lot of that money annually by knowing all of them and going “green” on your IT.

Register now for the upcoming webinar to learn about simple tricks that can help you to build a truly “Green” IT infrastructure and increase overall energy efficiency.

Performance, affordability, security, and fault tolerance are of utmost importance to the healthcare industry. As a widely recognized vendor that has satisfied the requirements of dozens of healthcare institutions, StarWind participates in the annual Healthcare IT Congress in Texas.

PROJECT Investment Group, a German real estate investing company, had problems with slow work, unreliability, and high maintenance costs of its SAN. The company was looking for a shared storage solution fitting the existing compute and storage separated scenario. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), PROJECT Investment Group creates an HA cluster, achieves scalability, ensures its business operations 24/7, and gains space to grow without compromising its IT infrastructure performance.

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

VMware recently announced a new way to enhance cybersecurity for Amazon Web Services cloud-based infrastructure — Advanced Workload Security for AWS. This new offer is based on the Carbon Black portfolio developed by VMware. It presents cloud-native endpoint security options that make cloud environments just as secure as on-prem ones.

Read the article by Brandon Lee, a virtualization expert, on how you can improve your cloud-based environment cybersecurity with VMware Advanced Workload Security for AWS.

Recently, at VMware EXPLORE 2022, the virtualization vendor announced a new product called VMware Aria. The new service is a multi-cloud management solution. It allows you to centralize multi-cloud operation in one console that has a single view for deployment, management, automation and cost management of your cloud-based environment.

Read the article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, on the features and benefits offered by the new VMware Aria solution.

Zikol, a North Macedonian construction company, wanted to ensure continuous business operations and get the opportunities for scalability as it grows. However, a workgroup environment restricted this process. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Zikol adds a shared storage layer to its IT infrastructure and deploys a high availability (HA) cluster, thus achieving 24/7 business operations.

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

Previously, South Gibson School Corporation, the largest public school in Gibson County, Indiana, had an aged non-virtualized environment with a bloated hardware footprint. Management of the system with multiple servers was rather exhausting and cost-burdened. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), South Gibson School Corporation creates a high availability (HA) cluster, reduces the number of servers from 25 to 6, ensures simplified infrastructure management, and cuts high IT operational expenses (OpEx).

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

Having only the desired users access necessary services in Azure Production Subscription is vital to the security and smoothness of your IT environment operation. You can have your people working on new projects in a sandbox subscription. When you’re ready to transfer such projects to production, a set of easy steps will help you do that.

Read the guide by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, on which steps to take to copy images between various Azure subscriptions.