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
Jan-Pro Calgary, a Canadian commercial cleaning service provider, faced growing concerns about storage capacity and redundancy as its expanding operations remained reliant on a single standalone server. The company needed a cost-effective solution to achieve shared storage redundancy and high availability for its growing IT infrastructure. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Jan-Pro Calgary establishes a fully redundant two-node Hyper-V failover cluster, enables shared storage redundancy, and successfully completes its project of building an in-house datacenter within budget constraints. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/df
Virtual Machines (VMs) help save money, reduce hardware sprawl, and boost flexibility. But how exactly do they work? Our latest guide by Ivan Ischenko, a StarWind Pre-Sales Engineer, makes it all easy to understand – from components to benefits and beyond. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/dc
St Peter's Church of England Aided School, an educational institution, struggled with an outdated and overly complex IT infrastructure that was costly, time-consuming, and difficult to maintain for its small IT team. It needed a streamlined, cost-effective IT solution with simplified management and proactive support. By deploying StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), St Peter's Church of England Aided School creates a hyperconverged IT environment, reduces its hardware footprint from six to only two nodes, cuts energy costs, ensures responsive 24/7 support, and achieves substantial operational cost reduction. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/d9
Windows tends to pile up stuff you don’t need. Our new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind introduces tools that help you declutter and fine-tune your system. Easy to use, totally free, and super effective. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/d6
Yes, you can run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on a single host in your home lab. And this doesn’t have to mean juggling a dozen blog posts. Our latest article by Alex Samoylenko, an expert in virtualization technology, for StarWind brings it all together: deployment, configuration, networking – all the steps, all in one place.
Want a clear, full look at how VCF works in a compact setup? Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/d3
Kundan Group, an India-based leading manufacturing and exporting company, had a non-clustered Hyper-V environment, causing frequent downtime, and lacked redundancy. The company required a shared storage solution to provide high availability (HA) and redundancy for its core applications and eliminate downtime. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Kundan Group builds a clustered HA environment, ensures redundancy for its core applications, and saves $200,000 in five months. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/d0
Feeling lost with all the vSwitch load balancing options? Our latest guide by Daryna Havrada, StarWind Technical Support Engineer, explains each policy, when to use it, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Don’t leave your network performance to chance – learn the best practices now. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cX
AVR, Inc., a US-based software development company, faced limitations with its single, non-clustered Hyper-V servers, which put critical applications at risk of downtime. The company needed a cost-effective solution to achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance without investing in extra hardware. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), AVR, Inc. creates a clustered IT environment with HA and redundancy functionalities, reducing downtime to zero and ensuring the smooth operation of its electronic billing system. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cU
Looking for a VMware replacement? With licensing changes shaking things up, now's the time to explore your options. We’ve analyzed top alternatives, covering features, integrations, and ecosystem support. Check out our latest guide by Marius Sandbu, a cloud-native and end-user computing expert, for StarWind to find the best fit for your needs. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cR