Split Digital LLC, a U.S. company that provides cloud service solutions with high requirements to customization and security levels, switches to hyperconvergence from StarWind to get extreme reliability and uptime.
Before the StarWind deployment, its infrastructure contained active/passive cluster which deprived from sufficient storage speed rates.
Another issue was a necessity to easily increase capacity on demand without extra licenses burden. The company did consider several solutions, but they could not provide enough flexibility, or offer reasonable price and handy management.
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StarWind Success Story: Split Digital LLC gets uptime at 5 times lower cost
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Reaching manhood - StarWind is included in Gartner Magic Quadrant!
StarWind is delighted to be included in the November 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s competitors. With this recognition, we feel that StarWind takes its place on the HCI stage.
StarWind HCI offering includes StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA), StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), and StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL).
Share this moment with the StarWind team and read more about Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
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StarWind Log-Structured Write-Back Cache (LWC)
StarWind Log-Structured Write-Back Cache (LWC): Transaction-aware Write-Back Cache (WBC) unlocks stellar write performance without need to sacrifice data integrity.
The problem of latency in write operations with traditional cache technology becomes a daily hassle which can lead to a bottleneck in writing and data loss. What is more, the cache cannot ensure consistent performance under intense virtualized workloads which are prone to random I/O.
StarWind VSAN feature optimizes the data flows for your underlying storage, thus revolutionizing the way data is cached. Tailored for intense virtualized workloads, StarWind LWC provides accelerated write speed and increased reliability by effectively combining the fast memory like flash or RAM and a tiny portion of your storage.Ensure the desired resiliency and high performance for your apps with StarWind LWC!
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Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?
Mellanox, an Israeli company, is a leader when it comes to FPGAs and all kinds of programmable logic in the switches and NICs. The latter allow having 25Gbps at a cost and quality level traditional network companies won’t allow. Recently rumors about an acquisition of Mellanox by Microsoft began to circulate. The only decision assessment does not exist, as well as the determination of reasons for which Microsoft decided to take this move. Why does Microsoft want to buy Mellanox?
Read the article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft technology expert, to explore all pitfalls of this issue.
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StarWind Success Story: Hallam Medical Ltd migrates to rapid storage in 1 day
Hallam Medical Ltd, a UK Primary Care recruitment specialist, had already outgrown their IT infrastructure of Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster on top of HP Fibre Channel Enterprise SAN. The latency the company had was through the roof.Learn from this success story how Hallam Medical Ltd builds new infrastructure on a working Production system with zero downtime with StarWind.
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Q: How to drive storage implementation costs down and performance up? A: Replace aging hardware SAN with a combination of a commodity servers + Software-Defined Storage from StarWind!
IT administrators are always confronted with the problem of building innovative, fast, modern, and reliable IT infrastructure that fits the budget and saves resources for future growth. To commence, you should plan, select, re-plan, clarify goals, and so on ad infinitum in a vicious circle. However, the issue of guaranteeing the data safety will always be relevant on the agenda. Choosing a SAN (Storage Area Network) with the iSCSI protocol as one of the possible storage solutions will ensure data security and constant availability. In addition, this approach is cost-effective in terms of maintenance and support.
Read the article by Michael Rakitin, StarWind Post-Sales Support Team Lead, to find out the best practices of building iSCSI SAN.
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StarWind Success Story: The Philippines Gov’t increased critical data safety
The Department of Finance (The Republic of the Philippines) which formulates a revenue policy and provides funding for government programs required a shared storage solution for protecting their data and ensuring fault tolerance (FT). Any problems in the DOF’s IT infrastructure could lead to financial data loss and, accordingly, reputational losses. StarWind helped secure an organization’s virtualized environment and achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT) by providing a shared storage solution.
Find out how the Department of Finance achieved government level data protection and IT infrastructure optimization with StarWind.
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The SSL certificate updating with Azure AD Connect: Avoid Office 365 disruption
The flawless operation of your Office 365 infrastructure directly depends on the updates installed on time. An SSL certificate provides secure communication between Office 365 components. If it expires, your infrastructure becomes unprotected. This is where the Azure AD Connect tool comes in. With its help, you can update the SSL certificate for both AD FS and WAP Servers quickly and easily.
Read the article by Paolo Valsecchi, a System Engineer, to find out how to update the SSL certificate successfully with the Azure AD Connect tool.
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VMware vSphere Network I/O Control: Break through network bandwidth bottlenecks!
If you are a VMware vSphere administrator who wants to solve the problem of a low network throughput, Network I/O Control (NIOC) is exactly what you need! It’s a traffic-specific vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) mechanism of network bandwidth regulation that was firstly introduced in vSphere 4.1 in 2010. NIOC appeared when 10G networking was increasingly prevalent and became a real breakthrough. With this mechanism, you can ensure high network throughput and go with fewer network adapters in ESXi hosts. That sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a Virtualization technology professional, to find out how to configure NIOC.
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Managing privately – Create a user with Azure Function
It is never superfluous to provide an extra level of protection for your data and privacy in management. The Microsoft platform allows users to register and manage their applications, have a set of identifiers, and access their data 24/7. Creating a user with Azure Function will allow you to secure your data and provide private access to applications. Ensure information privacy right now!
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to automate the user creation with Azure Function.
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Windows Server 2019 Azure Network Adapter - Create a VPN connection in one click
After rolling out Windows Server 2019 and Windows Admin Center a month ago, Microsoft said that both were designed with ongoing popularity of all-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments in mind. This being said, let’s talk about the new multifunctional Azure Network Adapter! As you know, large workloads require good connections to VMs in Azure. This can be accomplished by using things like Site-to-Site VPN, Azure Express Route, or Point-to-Site VPN. Here, Azure Network Adapter comes into the play, allowing to connect VMs to the Azure Virtual Network just in one (or two) clicks!Read the article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant, to find out how to configure the Azure Network Adapter and connect your On-Prem physical or virtual server to the Azure Virtual Network.
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Annoyed with spam and spoofed emails? SPF, DKIM, and DMARC is your magic spell!
There are many anti-spam tools. And they are pretty good. For example, better-known and reliable domains can be added to your whitelist. However, spoofed emails will always be redone because they represent legitimate business emails. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC is a mechanism that will protect your email box and will allow you to get rid of annoying spam, ensuring verification of the sender's domain. Stop spam emails right now!Read the article by Gary Williams, a virtualization, storage, and Windows systems administrator, to find out how to configure SPF, DKIM, and DMARC anti-spam solutions.
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StarWind Success Story: Johnson’s Construction Ltd boosts uptime up to 99,9%
Johnson’s Construction Limited, a Canadian company dealing with the Heavy Civil Construction, had a single point of failure in their existing IT infrastructure which could be catastrophic. Although Microsoft Server 2012 R2 allowed to have failover cluster for the Hyper-V VMs, it did not support failover for the file server which hosted the Hyper-V disks.
Learn from this case study how Johnson’s Construction Ltd. eliminated downtime and turned the entire system into the highly available (HA) cluster with StarWind.
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StarWind Free Webinar: Windows Server Failover Clustering management options
Are you a Windows Infrastructure Administrator and looking for the best option of managing Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) that will tick all the boxes? We’ll help you slice and dice this question with a detailed analysis of Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT), PowerShell, 5nine, Windows Admin Center (WAC), and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). Eliminate all malfunctions and fortify server workloads with a WSFC management option that satisfies all your requirements!Learn from the upcoming free webinar about different WSFC management solutions, pros and cons of each, and choose the best for you.
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StarWind Success Story: GLC Diesel increased uptime by 90% within strict budget
GCL Diesel, a Canadian diesel service and diesel part distribution company, had non-redundant Windows 2003 servers and needed to optimize its existing IT infrastructure to eliminate downtime. The company first considered physical SAN. However, it did not fit the strict budget constraints.
Learn from this success story how StarWind allowed the company to build a fault-tolerant system without breaking budgets.
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StarWind at UK VMUG UserCon – Breaking the latency of iSCSI & iSER protocols
StarWind takes the stage as a Silver Sponsor at the UK VMUG UserCon 2018 held on December 13 in Leicester, UK. VMUG UserCons are created by VMware users for VMware user to discuss the latest developments in virtualization technologies. At this conference, StarWind will present a new way of improving the performance of the traditional iSCSI protocol – iSCSI Accelerator. Feel more enthusiastic about NVMes? Meet our NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) – the protocol tailored to squeeze maximum NVMe disks’ performance!
Visit the event to learn how to vanish the latency across your storage infrastructure! Find out more about this conference at the link.
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Building a Hyper-V lab in Azure Part 2: Setting up Hyper-V Replica
In order to build your own Hyper-V lab in Azure, you need two Hyper-V instances. But, hey, why do we need Hyper-V Replica here? This technology allows you to shift a virtual machine from a server on-prem to Microsoft Azure for maxing out your services uptime. With Hyper-V Replica, returning your services back to the normal functioning becomes a matter of only a few seconds… Looks like a must-have for your Hyper-V environment, doesn’t it?
Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a System Engineer, to find out how to configure Hyper-V Replica in Azure.
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StarWind at UK VMUG UserCon – Breaking the latency of iSCSI & iSER protocols
StarWind takes the stage as a Silver Sponsor at the UK VMUG UserCon 2018 held on December 13 in Leicester, UK. VMUG UserCons are created by VMware users for VMware user to discuss the latest developments in virtualization technologies. At this conference, StarWind will present a new way of improving the performance of the traditional iSCSI protocol – iSCSI Accelerator. Feel more enthusiastic about NVMes? Meet our NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) – the protocol tailored to squeeze maximum NVMe disks’ performance!Visit the event to learn how to vanish the latency across your storage infrastructure! Find out more about this conference at the link.
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StarWind at NVMe Developer Days: Learn how we slashed NVMes’ latency
StarWind takes the floor at NVMe Developer Days held December 6 at the Hilton Bayfront San Diego. The NVMe Developer Days program gives developers a chance to discuss the current state of NVMe and share ideas on how to broaden its applications.
At this conference, StarWind presents NVMe-oF (NVMe over Fabrics) – the protocol tailored to unleash the full NVMe performance in any environment. The result is far better than what storage systems can achieve over such legacy storage protocols as iSCSI, iSER, and Fibre Channel.
Greet StarWind with open arms at NVMe Developer Days on December 6 from 3:30 to 4:45 pm at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront!
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StarWind at NVMe Developer Days: Learn how we slashed NVMes’ latency
StarWind takes the floor at NVMe Developer Days held December 6 at the Hilton Bayfront San Diego. The NVMe Developer Days program gives developers a chance to discuss the current state of NVMe and share ideas on how to broaden its applications.
At this conference, StarWind presents NVMe-oF (NVMe over Fabrics) – the protocol tailored to unleash the full NVMe performance in any environment. The result is far better than what storage systems can achieve over such legacy storage protocols as iSCSI, iSER, and Fibre Channel.
Greet StarWind with open arms at NVMe Developer Days on December 6 from 3:30 to 4:45 pm at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront!