Constructive feedback is the way to go if a business wants to develop and thrive in the long run. WhatMatrix conducts its own independent analyses of HCIs, providing them with ranks. Ranking categories assess design, deployment, workload/server/storage support, data availability, etc. After in-depth assessment, StarWind HCA got into their Top 10.
Check out the comparison grid by WhatMatrix to see how HCI vendors, including StarWind, fare compared to one another.
Hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) can become cumbersome for sysadmins to maintain. They’re locked to many user interfaces (UIs), which they gotta shuffle through to keep things in check. Well, that's finally over. StarWind Command Center is a single-pane-of-glass tool to monitor and operate clusters and nodes, VMs, storage, networking, telemetry data, backup, etc. This video explains StarWind Command Center’s substance, demonstrates its features, provides case scenarios, practical benefits and shows you that HCI management can be a game — not a bane.
Learn from this video how you can revolutionize the way you operate your HCI with as much as just a single tool.
While the whole world is going crazy about NVMe, the utilization efficiency of PCIe SSDs presented over a network in a Windows Server environment is far from satisfactory. The buck stops at traditional protocols like iSCSI and FC that limit NVMe drive I/O badly. These protocols were designed to talk to cold storage media disks, not flash. Tired of that? We introduced NVMe-oF support to StarWind VSAN to bring this tech to Windows Server environments. Is our protocol implementation successful? Yup. With StarWind NVMe-oF, we got 25M IOPS and microsecond-scale latency on 4x Intel Optane in our cluster… can you go beyond?
Find out more about StarWind’s NVMe-oF implementation.
Slovenian Sovereign Holding (SSH), a Slovenian financial institution, had a non-clustered environment with 3 physical servers and 20 virtual servers and VMware vSphere on top. With a missing stretched cluster, protecting physical machines from any hardware and software failures, achieving high availability (HA) was not possible. Given the ever-present risk of IT infrastructure disruptions, providing data protection and meeting Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements were open to question, not to mention the possibility of business contingency planning. StarWind allowed SSH to get a fault-tolerant and HA clustered environment and ensure business continuity.
Find out how SSH satisfy the strictest RPO and RTO requirements and keep their mission-critical applications highly available thanks to StarWind.
WhatMatrix is a platform that leaves no things unsaid — they give it to you straight. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance had underwent extensive evaluations by its experts and received their feedback at last! Going after simplicity and cost-efficiency, StarWind HCA is said to be quite versatile and holding its ground solidly.
Read the blog post by WhatMatrix to see which macro-conclusions they’ve reached about our plug-and-play solution.
iSCSI and Fiber Channel have proven themselves as reliable partners of mission-critical operations over the last two decades, true. However, despite iSCSI’s praise, it can’t properly talk to flash, thereby hindering you from achieving the performance SSDs truly promise. Fortunately, we’ve been working really hard to resolve that mishap, and we’ve finally nailed it!
Read the article about StarWind NVMe-over-Fabrics and learn how our new solution enables true PCIe SSD experience over the network and what benefits it brings along.
PERN S.A., a Polish treasury-governed crude oil logistics company, thought its IT infrastructure was foolproof until a disaster came knocking. Its core data center crashed, ensuing downtime and costs for the company by stalling its operational activities. The company had to achieve replication of data coming from its security systems and make sure the environment is disaster-ready.
Find out how StarWind was able to provide PERN S.A. with an array of disaster recovery options that helped elevate its environment’s resilience.
It’s easy to get lost in trying to find the most convenient tool for your virtual disk conversion these days. Luckily, VirtualizationHowTo decided to compile a list of the 5 best ones available to you just a click away. Diverse hypervisor-governed environments require smooth performance, and, today, you can ensure that without getting too wrapped up.
Read their Top 5 and learn about StarWind V2V and other VHD to VMDK conversion tools now.
If the previous part, you read about general boundaries of cybersecurity and why it’s mandatory to uphold. Continuing the topic, the initial steps to ensuring your business is cyber-secure, you need to create a solid foundation. Baseline OS security tools have to be configured and active 24/7, and much success of cybersecurity depends on educating your staff.
Read the full article by Benoit Voirin, a cybersecurity consultant, about why employee engagement and education are key in nailing cybersecurity and how best to approach them.