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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
  • 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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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • September 18, 2025

What Is Data Protection, Privacy & Security: Complete Guide

Data is your most valuable asset – but also your biggest risk. Learn the difference between data protection, privacy, and security, and why each matters for business survival in our new article.
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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • November 23, 2018

Complete an infrastructure project for your organization with iSCSI SAN

IT administrators are always confronted with the problem of building innovative, fast, modern, and reliable IT infrastructure that fits the budget and saves resources for future growth. To commence, you should plan, select, re-plan, clarify goals, and so on ad infinitum in a vicious circle. However, the issue of guaranteeing the data safety will always be relevant on the agenda. Choosing a SAN (Storage Area Network) with the iSCSI protocol as one of the possible storage solutions will ensure data security and constant availability. In addition, this approach is cost-effective in terms of maintenance and support.
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