Solution: Server management
Windows Server “8” Beta: Hyper-V & Scale-up Virtual Machines Part 2…
Today’s blog concludes the discussion of Hyper-V & Scale Up Virtual machines. Jeff Woolsey, a Principal Program Manager on the Windows Server team, wrote this blog.
Windows Server “8” Beta: Hyper-V & Scale-up Virtual Machines Part 1…
The thing I love most about Microsoft is our focus on customers. Prior to coming to Microsoft, I spent the majority of my career working for companies that competed against Microsoft. Microsoft would release a new product into a market and sometimes they would nail it immediately and other times they didn’t.
Standards-based Management in Windows Server “8”
Microsoft Windows has long supported standards-based management. We were one of the founding members of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and shipped the first, and richest, Common Information Model (CIM) Object Manager (CIMOM) we all know as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
Microsoft Online Backup Service
A number of people view the cloud in all or nothing terms – you move everything to the cloud or you leave everything where it is. The reality is that a lot of cloud adoption is going to follow the hybrid approach using both on-premises and cloud services.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V has passed Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL 4+)
I’m going to interrupt our flow of Windows Server “8” blog posts to share this hot off the press news regarding Windows Server 2008/R2 and Common Criteria. I am happy to announce that Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V has passed the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL 4+).
Building an Optimized Private Cloud using Windows Server “8” Server Core
I like to say that Windows Server “8” is a transformational release. We stopped thinking of ourselves as an OS for an individual server and started thinking of ourselves as an OS equally suited for a single server or a cloud using lots of servers.
Windows Server “8” – Taking Server Application Storage to Windows File Shares
Whenever I work with the Windows Server “8” storage, I get a huge smile as I think about what customers are going to be able to do and the excellent engineering that went into the features.
Windows Server “8” beta available now!
The beta of Windows Server “8” is now available for IT professionals and software developers around the world to download, to evaluate, and to give us feedback on. In September we introduced Windows Server “8” with a preview to help developers and hardware partners prepare new and existing applications, systems and devices.
Windows Server 8: An Introduction
Take a look at Bill Laing’s blog, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft’s Server and Cloud business, to get an overview of the next release of Windows Server codenamed Windows Server 8. Read Bill’s post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog.
Simplify your customers’ cloud migration planning with MAP 6.0
The next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0— is now available for free download. Planning a customer journey to the cloud just got easier. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.0 includes assessment capabilities to evaluate workloads for both public and private cloud platforms. With MAP 6.