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Webinar recording: 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 recording: 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 recording: 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?

Webinar recording: Microsoft Clustered Storage Spaces and StarWind Virtual SAN: For a Complete Software-Defined Storage Solution

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 recording: 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.