From autonomous cars to smart factories, many industries can’t wait for the cloud. Edge Computing delivers real-time decisions, keeps sensitive data on-site, and saves bandwidth.
Discover how edge computing works, why it matters, and where businesses are already using it in our latest article by Dmytro Malynka for StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/uy

Archway School, an England-based secondary school, relied on outdated and costly SAN storage that required expensive third-party maintenance. The school required a cost-effective and reliable hyperconverged solution that seamlessly integrated with its existing VMware environment while eliminating unnecessary complexity. By implementing StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Archway School replaces the aging SAN with a hyperconverged platform and reduces hardware footprint, power consumption, and points of failure while enhancing performance and ensuring continuous access to critical educational resources. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/uv

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Remote Desktop Services (RDS), or Desktop As A Service (DaaS) – the choices can feel overwhelming. Our full guide by Ivan Ischenko for StarWind explains how each works, their pros and cons, and the best fit for different business needs. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/ur

Kaonix Solutions Limited, a British IT services provider, struggled with outdated standalone servers lacking high availability (HA) and resilience, resulting in frequent downtime and complex recovery processes. The company needed a cost-effective solution to replace its legacy servers and eliminate downtime. By deploying StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Kaonix Solutions Limited virtualizes its infrastructure, implements a failover cluster, and achieves HA with seamless management, all while significantly cutting hosting costs. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/uo

Looking for a budget-friendly yet powerful VMware Alternative? Platform9 Community Edition is a free, KVM-based virtualization platform with Kubernetes support, HA, live migration, and SDN.
Check out our latest article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind on Platform9 CE. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/ul

The city of Lyon, France, is migrating 4,000+ workstations from Microsoft to Linux and Only Office by 2026. The goal? To protect privacy, cut costs, and extend hardware lifespans.

Discover the benefits, tools, and distros that make such a transition possible, and how you can follow their lead, in our latest article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/ui

Beauty by Imagination, a U.S.-based leading haircare company, relied on traditional backup methods and needed a more efficient solution to ensure the safety and availability of critical data. Its VMware-based environment lacked a streamlined and modern backup storage system, which put pressure on its IT operations and risked potential data loss. By deploying StarWind Virtual Tape Library Appliance (VTLA), Beauty by Imagination enhances its VMware backup infrastructure and reduces backup management complexity, thus ensuring long-term data retention and operational resilience. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/uf

As data grows, centralized storage systems are hitting their limits. In our new article by Vladyslav Savchenko for StarWind, we break down distributed storage – how it works, why it’s better, and where it fits into cloud, edge, and big data ecosystems. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/ub

STVR (Slovenská televízia a rozhlas), a national broadcaster, had an IT infrastructure based on both Hyper-V and VMware with VMware vSAN for storage, but it lacked the active-active Storage Replication needed to build a highly available file server. A reliable, cost-effective alternative to vSAN that supports active-active replication and works seamlessly with both Hyper-V and VMware environments was needed. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), STVR builds a Highly Available file server infrastructure, achieving active-active storage replication and ensuring uninterrupted access to critical data. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/u8

Ceph removal in Proxmox requires more than just GUI clicks – it’s a multi-step process. Our latest practical walkthrough by Paolo Valsecchi, a System Engineer, for StarWind covers everything from VM disk migration to OSD destruction and full configuration purge. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/u5

What’s changed in VMware ’s latest release? Virtual Hardware Version 22 brings new storage and passthrough options, updated graphics support, and removes some outdated components.
Get a full overview, plus a version comparison chart to help you track what’s new, from our latest article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/u2

TrendHR, a U.S.-based provider of human resource outsourcing services, needed to replace its aging DataON Cluster-in-a-Box solution, which was reaching end-of-life and becoming cost-prohibitive due to Azure focused upgrades. The company needed a reliable, budget-friendly High Availability (HA) solution for its Hyper-V environment that could scale flexibly and avoid unnecessary cloud integration costs. By deploying StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), TrendHR moves to hyperconvergence and achieves improved performance and flexibility while significantly reducing upfront and operational costs. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/tz

Watch our latest 30-minute webinar to hear from Andrew Tuzov, Director of Alliances, as he shares how this partnership blends two decades of innovation and support into one stronger offering. Explore how the combined forces of StarWind and DataCore expand your infrastructure options without adding complexity. From the edge to the core to the cloud – it’s all about building what works for you.

Watch the webinar recording now: https://starwind.com/s/tw

Still relying on traditional storage arrays? It might be time to rethink. Software Defined Storage (SDS) offers flexibility, scalability, and freedom from vendor lock-in.
Our latest guide by Vladyslav Savchenko for StarWind breaks down the top SDS vendors of 2025 and helps you choose the right solution for your environment. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/tt

Northgate High School, a UK-based educational institution, had aging physical SAN infrastructure that was unreliable, expensive to replace, and failed to deliver true high availability (HA) under Microsoft Hyper-V. The school needed a cost-effective, fault-tolerant storage solution that could provide HA across multiple locations. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Northgate High School builds a cost-effective HA storage infrastructure on Microsoft Hyper-V, eliminates downtime during hardware failures, and saves approximately £30,000 over three years, thus ensuring uninterrupted access to IT resources and maintaining seamless campus operations. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/tq

Manual IT management is slowing teams down. Our new guide by Ivan Ischenko for StarWind explains how Infrastructure Automation speeds up software deployments, reduces human error, and simplifies scaling.
Discover tools, use cases, and real-world benefits. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/tn

Want to run Virtual Machines on your Windows PC? Hyper-V is already built into Windows 10 / Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions. Our latest step-by-step guide by Karim Buzdar, an IT Engineer and Linux Expert, for StarWind explains how to turn it on using both the GUI and PowerShell, plus how to create and configure your first VM. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/tk

Ciena Healthcare, a U.S. provider of skilled nursing and assisted living services, had IBM-based infrastructure with VMware that was difficult to scale and locked them into costly hardware and licensing. The organization needed a scalable and cost-effective storage solution that could be deployed and maintained without vendor restrictions. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Ciena Healthcare builds a flexible and highly available (HA) storage cluster, achieving easier scalability and management while saving over $80,000 in upfront costs. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/tf

Designing a Data Warehouse isn’t just about storing information – it’s about enabling better business decisions. Our new guide by Ivan Ischenko for StarWind walks you through all the layers, architectures, and best practices for building a scalable, efficient data warehouse. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/te

Lipsey Logistics, LLC, a U.S.-based logistics company, faced downtime risks due to aging, separate physical servers with no redundancy, making every failure a time-consuming recovery process. The company needed a cost-effective high availability (HA) solution to eliminate downtime and ensure uninterrupted operation of its critical services. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Lipsey Logistics, LLC creates an HA IT infrastructure, reduces system downtime, and enhances operational efficiency without exceeding budget constraints. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/tb