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Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start 

Don’t miss this opportunity; get your staff together and learn about PowerShell right from the source! Join Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell, together with Jason Helmick, Senior Technologist at Concentrated Technology, as they take you through the ins and outs of using PowerShell for real-time problem solutions and automations.

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6 min read

Transforming your Datacenter with Software-Defined Networking (SDN): Part I 

With server virtualization, you are able to decouple a compute instance from the underlying hardware.  That enables you to pool compute resources for greater flexibility. However, to truly transform your datacenter, you’ve also got to deliver your storage, compute, and networking resources as a shared, elastic resource pool for on-demand delivery of datacenter capacity.

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Storage Transformation 

Organizations face many challenges when it comes to storage.  Data volumes are exploding, increasing the cost of storage and the headaches of storage management.  The rise of Big Data analytics means more data is being collected and mined than ever before – 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years.

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Hybrid Cloud Computing with Windows Server and System Center 

Over the past 15 months, we’ve delivered 3 waves of industry leading datacenter innovations with System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1. With these three releases, we have established a solid foundation for our enterprise and service provider customers to cloud-optimize their business.

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TechEd North America 2013 Editor’s Choice: Windows Server 

Welcome to the start of TechEd North America 2013!  So far, we’ve kicked off the conference with a post and video on the new Microsoft Cloud OS YouTube channel from Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella discussing “The Enterprise Era”.

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Server Performance Advisor (SPA) 3.0 

Starting wit Windows Server 2008, we have published a server tuning guide each release designed to help system administrators and IT professionals get the best performance out of their server deployments.  For Windows Server 2012 we published the Windows Server 2012 Tuning Guide, but this time there is a twist.

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WS-Management ISO/IEC Standard 

Evolution of standards-based management in Windows In a world where management has shifted from managing one server to managing many complex, heterogeneous servers and clouds, standards-based management—long supported by Microsoft—has become essential.