Webinar: Microsoft Hyper-V: 4 Things You Should Know to Ensure Storage HA and Security
Published: March 3, 2015
Data protection, storage security and 24/7 operations are minimum requirements for every IT infrastructure. Virtualization offers many benefits, but it makes these three items absolutely crucial for business continuity. All Hyper-V administrators must deliver storage high availability (HA), properly secure the virtual environment and have redundant disaster recovery plans in place.
Webinar: Server-Side Caching as an Alternative to All-Flash Arrays
Published: February 19, 2015
Improving application performance is all about getting more I/O from the storage. But does that mean you have to buy an expensive all-flash storage array? Not at all. Server-side caching solutions use local RAM and Flash, show better performance and prove to be more cost effective than external shared storage appliances.
Webinar: Tap Room Meeting: Microsoft Clustered Storage Spaces: Get Rid of I/O Blender
Published: February 6, 2015
To blend or not to blend, that is the question! Whether tis Nobler in the mind of suffer The I/O blender and bottlenecks of outrageous Fortune, Or to take StarWind against a Sea of troubles?
Published: January 29, 2015
Microsoft is enabling software-defined storage to work with its own hypervisor computing meme, building on its SMB 3.0 protocol and Storage Spaces technology. While the approach has its merits, building from the familiar to newer storage architectures, the resulting storage infrastructure is more of a scale out NAS than a Virtual SAN. With StarWind Virtual SAN technology, complimentary to Microsoft Hyper-V, a Virtual SAN may be implemented in a virtual Microsoft environment that delivers better resource utilization and greater overall cost efficiency.
Webinar: New Microsoft Storage Best Practices for Hyper-V & SQL Server: SMB 3.0 and Scale-Out File Servers
Published: September 2, 2014
Windows Server 2012 R2 does SMB 3.0 as a new generation of fast and convenient storage for Hyper-V and SQL server. Watch this webcast to learn how to build a robust and cost effective SoFS cluster with maximum performance and minimum hardware footprint.
