Jaco IT-Solutions, a Belgian provider of IT services, faced the limitation of single-server infrastructure without redundancy, resulting in inadequate high availability for their client's data and services. The company required a solution that could provide reliable, cost-effective, and highly available storage to ensure continuous access to critical data and applications. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Jaco IT-Solutions successfully establishes a dependable and affordable storage environment, addressing their high availability challenges and guaranteeing seamless data accessibility for their clients.
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StarWind Success Story: Create a highly available infrastructure with StarWind
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Unlock the power of Secret Management: Securely manage credentials in PowerShell
Secret Management is a PowerShell module that enables secure storage and management of credentials, allowing seamless integration with various third-party secret vaults and simplifying script deployment.
Read the new article by Nicolas Prigent, a Microsoft MVP, for StarWind to find out how to leverage the Azure Key Vault extension to effortless script sharing and adaptable authentication.
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StarWind Success Story: Enhance backup and restoration processes with StarWind
Kellstrom Defense Aerospace, a U.S.-based airplane components distributor, faced complex IT infrastructure management due to poorly documented clustered storage, unutilized drives, and aging architecture, demanding efficient resource allocation and streamlined operations. The company required a comprehensive solution to optimize storage, enhance data management, and prepare for future upgrades. By integrating StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Kellstrom Defense Aerospace achieves centralized management, effective storage allocation, improved data backup and restoration, and timely issue resolution, ensuring seamless operations, resource optimization, and future scalability.
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StarWind Free Webinar: Choosing between VMware and open source?
Just one week left until our webinar comparing VMware and open-source virtualization platforms!
Join us to delve into the advantages, features, costs, and performance aspects of both proprietary and open-source virtualization.
Don't let this opportunity slip by! Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/switching-from-vmware-to-open-source-what-are-the-options
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StarWind Success Story: Create a clustered environment with StarWind vSAN
Integral IT Services, an outside IT department for small businesses, encountered the issue of lacking a clustered environment with its stand-alone Hyper-V hosts, hindering its ability to provide reliable VM hosting. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Integral IT Services facilitates the establishment of a cost-effective clustered setup, ensures seamless VM failover and high availability, expands its service offerings, and enables business growth.
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VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0: What's New?
Just recently, VMware has announced a major update to its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) architecture, version 5.0. It includes functionalities providing additional scalability, security, and several key enhancements to meet the requirements for IaaS infrastructures.
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, an IT and Virtualization consultant, and find out what's new in the major release of VCF version 5.0.
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StarWind Success Story: Build a highly available infrastructure with StarWind
Bosch Security, a leading global supplier of security and safety solutions, faced difficulties in achieving high availability in its security and safety systems, leading to downtime and potential failures. The company needed a solution that offered high availability without the associated high costs and complexity. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Bosch Security achieves high availability, uninterrupted operations, and enhanced reliability, thus delivering exceptional security solutions to clients worldwide.
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/bosch-security-systems-success-story/
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StarWind Free Webinar: Choosing between VMware and open source?
Join our upcoming webinar to explore the pros, cons, costs, and performance differences of proprietary VMware virtualization and open-source platforms.
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Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure: What Is It?
The hybrid cloud infrastructure is must-have in a world of modern business as it provides flexibility, scalability, security, and cost saving in many areas. However, even though all of these inherent advantages may make it look perfect, it really isnt.
Read the article by Oleg Pankevych, a StarWind Pre-Sales engineer, and learn about pros and cons of the hybrid cloud infrastructure to decide what is best for you.
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WSUS Import Update: PowerShell
Microsoft's Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has been a key tool in managing updates across a network for quite some time. As keeping systems updated remains important, Microsoft created a new PowerShell import method that bypasses the issues with the Internet Explorer/Active-X combination.
Read the article by Brandon Lee, an IT Consultant, and find out how to input and customize the updates you are looking to import using the new PowerShell-driven import process.
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StarWind Success Story: Consolidate server infrastructure with StarWind vSAN
South Gibson School Corporation, a K-12 school district, was burdened by a complex array of aging physical servers for different services and urgently required a more streamlined and efficient IT infrastructure. The school district needed a comprehensive solution that could consolidate its servers, enhance performance, and reduce maintenance complexities while remaining cost-effective. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), South Gibson School Corporation reduces the physical server count from 25 to 6, enhances performance, and ensures high availability through a consolidated setup of two physical SAN servers running StarWind and four Hyper-V servers.
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What is Virtualization?
It truly seems that you couldn't possibly find a person today who hasn't heard of virtualization technology yet. Considering its more efficient use of a physical machine's resources, there's no surprise whatsoever as to why it has become an industry standard for enterprise IT architecture. However, are you sure you know all there is to know?
Read the article by Alex Khorolets, a Technical Support Engineer, and take a deep dive into virtualization to learn just how integral it is to the way we manage IT resources.
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StarWind Success Story: Get streamlined storage management with StarWind vSAN
Siemens, an airport logistics solutions provider, faced the need to enhance storage capacity while containing costs. The company required a solution that could modernize its IT infrastructure without disrupting operations. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Siemens seamlessly integrates software-defined storage into its framework, enables efficient data distribution, ensures high availability, and ultimately transforms its storage landscape to meet evolving needs.
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SAN vs NAS: Which One Is Right for You?
For quite some time, SAN (Storage Area Network) has been the go-to choice for provisioning storage for many organizations. However, NAS (Network-Attached Storage) is gaining more and more popularity.
Read the article by Diana Abo-Harmush, a StarWind Solutions Engineer, to discover the pros and cons of SAN and NAS network-based storage solutions.
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StarWind Success Story: Create a hyperconverged environment with StarWind
Split Digital LLC, a U.S.-based cloud services provider, faced the challenge of accommodating its rapid growth while maintaining personalized software solutions and stringent security measures. To address this, the company required a scalable and secure IT solution that could seamlessly integrate with its existing infrastructure. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Split Digital LLC creates a reliable hyperconverged environment and solidifies its reputation as a premium, customer-centric cloud services provider, capable of meeting unique client needs with agility and efficiency.
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StarWind Success Story: Create a highly available IT landscape with StarWind
Lipman Insurance Administrators, a U.S.-based health insurance provider, grappled with the challenge of maintaining an expensive and inefficient mixed Windows/Unix environment, burdened by high hardware costs, inadequate redundancy, and a convoluted disaster recovery strategy. The organization required a robust storage solution that could seamlessly integrate with its existing Hyper-V environment. By leveraging StarWind Virtual SAN's (vSAN) hardware-agnostic approach, Lipman Insurance Administrators created a resilient storage cluster using SSDs and off-the-shelf server chassis. The new system significantly cut both hardware and operational expenses, delivered exceptional performance and scalability, and simplified disaster recovery planning and execution.
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AKS: Azure CNI Overlay
Originally, the users of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) had to choose between only two types of network plugins, namely Azure or Kubenet. Now, Microsoft has released an alternative that can do all the same things and more!
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, on how and why would you want to deploy an Azure CNI Overlay cluster.
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Work Smarter, Not Harder with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Traditional desktop setups holding you back? Enhance security, enable remote work, and improve IT efficiency with VDI.
Dive into the details of how VDI works, its benefits, and implementation steps in the new article by Pre-sales Engineer Anton Vovchuk for StarWind.
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StarWind Success Story: Build a hyperconverged infrastructure with StarWind vSAN
The Department of Finance (the Philippines) encountered a significant challenge with its existing IT infrastructure, especially when managing hypervisor servers, leading to inefficiencies and increased operational costs. The fragmentation within the infrastructure hindered resource allocation for critical government programs. By unifying commodity servers, disks, and flash storage with StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), the Department of Finance eliminates the fragmentation issue, reduces management complexities, builds a hyperconverged infrastructure, and optimizes its fiscal planning and welfare programs.
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Kick It Up a Notch with Hotpatching on Azure
Azure users, rejoice! Hotpatching for Windows Server with Desktop Experience is now here, ensuring smooth and seamless updates for your VMs on Microsoft Azure. No need to stop processes or reboot - it's all about continuous efficiency.
Read more about this game-changing capability and how it enhances VM management on Azure in the new article by Brandon Lee, an IT Consultant, for StarWind.