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Michael Rakitin
Michael Rakitin
StarWind Customer Engineering Manager. Michael brings 20+ years of experience in IT infrastructure design and virtualization. With deep knowledge of storage systems and systems administration, he provides technical leadership in building high-availability environments. He delivers high-authority guidance on optimizing virtualized infrastructure and enterprise-scale data storage solutions.
Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • August 5, 2026

Hyper-V cluster network best practices for Windows Server 2025

Good Hyper-V performance starts with good network design. Learn when to isolate traffic, where NIC Teaming fits, how to configure cluster networks, and why storage and heartbeat traffic deserve dedicated paths.
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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • July 17, 2026

Green Computing in 2026: Real Efficiency vs Greenwashing

Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is useful, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Efficiency today also depends on utilization, storage design, cooling strategy, and hardware lifecycle. Our new article explores what reduces energy consumption in modern data centers.
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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • July 10, 2026

Building a workgroup cluster in Windows Server 2025

For ROBO and edge environments, Active Directory may add unnecessary infrastructure to a small HA deployment. Our latest guide explains how to build a Windows Server 2025 workgroup cluster, validate it correctly, and configure shared storage using local disks.
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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • June 11, 2026

Enterprise Data Storage Solutions: Architectures, Features, and Trends

Storage architecture decisions directly influence application latency, recovery times, and infrastructure scalability. Our new article examines the technical characteristics of DAS, SAN, NAS, object storage, SDS, and HCI, along with the design considerations that drive enterprise deployments.
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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • April 22, 2026

Continuous Data Protection: How it works and when it earns its complexity

Data changes constantly, and your backup strategy should too. Continuous Data Protection (CDP) captures every write in real time, giving you the ability to recover exactly when things go wrong. Check out our new article for a detailed CDP technical overview.
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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • March 5, 2026

MTU Size: What It Is, Why It Matters, and When to Use Jumbo Frames

Many admins only check Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) when iperf tests fail. Yet MTU affects packet size, throughput, fragmentation, and CPU efficiency. Find out from our latest article how to determine and tune MTU safely across your network.
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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • December 11, 2025

Megabit vs Megabyte – What’s the Difference?

Why does your “100 Mbps” internet not download at 100 MB/s? Because megabits are not the same as megabytes. Get the fundamentals right from to avoid performance miscalculations in networking and storage.
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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • November 5, 2025

XFS vs Ext4: What to Choose? Which is Better?

XFS or Ext4 – which Linux filesystem should you choose? Check out our latest comparison article to discover which one delivers better performance, scalability, and reliability for your workloads.
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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • October 30, 2025

Block vs Object Storage: What’s The Difference?

Not sure whether to use block or object storage? Learn from our latest in-depth comparison about how they differ in performance, scalability, and cost.
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