IT outages cost $5,600/min on average. Downtime isn’t just a tech problem – it’s a business risk. Our new article by Ivan Ischenko, a StarWind Pre-Sales Engineer, breaks down the fundamentals of Fault Tolerance and how it helps protect your operations from unexpected failures. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/oh
Accu-Tec, a US-based provider of specialized packaging solutions, faced high costs and inadequate support with its ESXi cluster and Xiotech SAN, making full redundancy too expensive. The company sought for hyperconvergence to cut high maintenance costs and ensure redundancy. By implementing StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Accu-Tec creates a hyperconverged IT environment, achieves full redundancy, reduces IT expenses, and simplifies management while ensuring seamless operations and long-term cost savings of $80,000 over five years. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/oe
If your Azure VM is down and the OS disk is encrypted with BitLocker, this guide is for you. Learn how to mount the disk to a recovery VM and unlock it securely using PowerShell and Azure Key Vault in our latest article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft MVP, for StarWind. Full script included! Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/ok
Let’s be honest – nobody likes dealing with a Windows system that won’t boot. But when it happens, knowing how to use Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) can save you hours of stress.
Our latest full guide by Brandon Lee, an IT Consultant, for StarWind walks you through how to access Windows RE, explains all of its core tools, and shows how to troubleshoot even the toughest boot issues. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/e5
Concerned with Broadcom-VMware’s pricing? You're not alone. In our upcoming webinar, we explore XCP-ng as a powerful, cost-effective virtualization platform. Learn how it compares to VMware, how to migrate, and what tools can help simplify the process. Don’t miss out – register now: https://starwind.com/s/e2
Hospice of the Piedmont, a U.S.-based healthcare provider, faced a critical IT challenge with its aging Dell-based infrastructure, risking impacting patient care due to potential downtime. The organization searched for a solution that could bring high availability (HA) and enable maintenance flexibility without the heavy financial and operational burden of traditional SAN hardware. By implementing StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Hospice of the Piedmont creates a hyperconverged IT environment and receives cost-effective redundancy and support, thus ensuring continuous healthcare services and saving $20,000 in upfront costs. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dZ
Manual backups are slow, risky, and unreliable. Find out from our latest article by Dmytro Malynka, StarWind Product Manager, how automated backup transforms your data protection strategy. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dW
Marion County R-II School District, an American rural K-12 School District, had standalone Dell servers that lacked redundancy and backup and led to frequent downtime and data security concerns within budget constraints. The district required a cost-effective shared storage solution to achieve high availability (HA) and scalability. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Marion County R-II School District creates a failover cluster, ensuring HA and data replication, which eliminated downtime and enabled 100% uptime of its educational applications. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dT
Managing apps across multiple devices can be a nightmare – unless you know about application virtualization. Learn how it helps with faster updates, better security, and easier management in our latest article by Ivan Ischenko, a StarWind Pre-Sales Engineer. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dQ
Public cloud LLMs are powerful, but they don't always meet security and compliance needs. Learn from our detailed guide by Marius Sandbu, a cloud-native and end-user computing expert, for StarWind on how to deploy Large Language Models (LLMs) on your own infrastructure and create a private AI environment – from GPU requirements to scaling for multiple users. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dN
Energy Trust of Oregon, a U.S.-based nonprofit helping utility customers save energy and generate renewable power, struggled with cumbersome management and significant downtime risks caused by standalone servers, requiring manual virtual machine (VM) migrations during maintenance and hardware failures. The organization sought a cost-effective and resilient solution to achieve high availability (HA) for its IT infrastructure. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Energy Trust of Oregon creates a 2-node HA cluster, enables seamless failover and simplified maintenance, eliminates the need for manual interventions, and minimizes downtime, thus ensuring uninterrupted operations. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dK
Snapshots are great for quick rollbacks. Backups are your lifeline in a disaster. Don’t rely on one when you really need the other.
Check out our new guide by Dmytro Malynka, StarWind Product Manager, to understand how they work and when to use them in your data protection plan. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dH
John Wood Community College, a U.S.-based educational institution, struggled with a complex and costly IT setup, relying on Dell servers and SAN storage that were difficult to manage and expensive to maintain. The college needed a cost-effective solution that could replace its SAN-based infrastructure with a simplified and scalable system. By deploying StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), John Wood Community College consolidates its IT infrastructure, moves to hyperconvergence, and improves performance with an all-flash, fully redundant Hyper-V cluster, thus ensuring uninterrupted academic operations. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dE
No more “Run as Administrator” - Windows 11 (24H2+) now supports sudo, just like Unix / Linux systems! This means you can execute privileged commands with ease, right from the console. Want to know how to set it up?
Check out our full guide by Karim Buzdar, IT Engineer & Linux Expert, for #StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dB
Microsoft ’s Remote Desktop client is on the way out, with end-of-support set for March 27, 2026. Check out the full guide by Brandon Lee, IT Consultant, for StarWind to learn what's changing and where to migrate. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dy
Northeast Security Bank, a U.S.-based financial institution, had an issue with its manual and time-consuming disaster recovery (DR) process, which required hours to restore virtual machines (VMs) between standalone VMware ESXi hosts. The bank needed a cost-effective, highly redundant solution to automate failover and streamline IT maintenance without disrupting operations. By deploying StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Northeast Security Bank creates a hyperconverged IT environment, automates VM failover, and enhances redundancy, while ensuring uninterrupted banking operations. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/du
Copy-on-Write changes the game by eliminating unnecessary duplication. Need to clone a VM? Snapshot a database? CoW handles it all – efficiently.
Explore from our latest article by Ivan Ischenko, a StarWind Pre-Sales Engineer, how this simple concept leads to huge savings in time, storage, and performance. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dr
Alfa Adhesives, Inc., a U.S.-based manufacturer of industrial adhesives, relied on an aging Dell PowerEdge VRTX system with single points of failure. The company needed cost-effective shared storage to replace its end-of-life servers without the complexity and expense of traditional SAN-based solutions. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Alfa Adhesives, Inc. creates a fully redundant two-node system on familiar Dell hardware, ensures high availability (HA), reduces costs, and simplifies management while delivering seamless performance and ensuring operational efficiency. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/do
SMBs should be aware that VMware / Broadcom ’s new rules could be a big blow to your budget. With a 72-core minimum license requirement, you could end up paying for more than you use. And that’s not the only bad news.
Get all the details in our latest guide by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind before these changes affect your costs. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dl
The Broadcom - VMware deal left many IT teams questioning what’s next. If you’re exploring alternatives, this in-depth article by Roman Bitsiuk, a StarWind Senior Support Engineer, compares VMware and Nutanix side by side. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/di