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Dmytro Malynka
Dmytro Malynka
StarWind Product Manager. Dmytro is an expert in virtualization and storage systems. Specializing in infrastructure design, deployment, and optimization, he provides technical leadership in modernizing IT ecosystems. Dmytro delivers high-authority insights into product development, disaster recovery, and enterprise-scale storage solutions for high-availability virtual environments.
Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • September 9, 2026

Education IT infrastructure: how to build reliable systems and reduce downtime

Learn how to build a reliable education IT infrastructure that minimizes downtime through high availability, backup strategies, resilient network design, and recovery planning for schools, colleges, and universities.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • August 27, 2026

RDMA: A Deep Dive into Remote Direct Memory Access

RDMA is often reduced to the idea of “zero-copy” or “bypassing the CPU.” The reality is more nuanced. Check out our latest guide to learn how RDMA works, its deployment requirements, troubleshooting considerations, and practical use cases.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • July 30, 2026

Retail IT infrastructure: how to keep stores and POS systems running

Retail IT is built around one question: what keeps the checkout running when hardware, power, or the WAN fails? Our new article looks at local workloads, POS resilience, two-node HA, failover, backup, and edge AI from an infrastructure perspective.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • June 9, 2026

Stateful vs stateless applications: differences and use cases

Stateful or stateless? The answer determines how services scale, recover from failures, operate in Kubernetes, and handle storage dependencies. Our latest article explains the difference between stateful and stateless workloads.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • April 16, 2026

Active-Active vs Active-Passive: Key Differences, Benefits & Use Cases

Active-active and active-passive HA architectures differ in failover orchestration, state synchronization, and resource utilization. Our new article provides a structured comparison across clustering and storage layers.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • January 16, 2026

Top 10 Alternatives & Competitors to VMware in 2026

Exploring other virtualization options after the Broadcom-VMware deal? Check out our detailed review of the top 10 alternatives and competitors to VMware in 2024. 
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • November 6, 2025

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Real Difference?

Stay resilient with the right BCDR strategy business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR plan) form the backbone of operational resilience. Learn from our latest article  how to design, test, and integrate both strategies for true business protection in 2025.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • October 29, 2025

How to Install VMware Tools on Linux, Windows, and macOS: A Detailed Guide

Want smoother performance and better integration for your VMs? Learn from our latest article how to install VMware Tools on Linux, Windows, and macOS – step by step.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • September 11, 2025

VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS): Detailed Guide

Running VMware clusters at scale? Manual balancing is a headache. Discover how Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) automates workload placement, boosts performance, and reduces admin effort.
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