Solution: Storage
What’s new in failover clustering: #05 Resilient private cloud
This post was authored by Subhasish Bhattacharya, Program Manager, Windows Server. Introduction In the past, in a world of reliable but expensive SANs, an aggressive high-availability strategy designed to fail fast was most optimal. The health of the system would be closely monitored to detect issues and react quickly and swiftly.
What’s new in failover clustering: #03 Stretched Clusters
This post was authored by Ned Pyle, Principal Program Manager, Windows Server Why should you care about clustered storage? Everyone’s talking about apps, mobile, DevOps, containers, platforms. That’s cutting edge stuff in the IT world. Storage is boring, right? Well, they’re all wrong. Storage is the key.
What’s new in failover clustering: #02 VM Load Balancing
This post was authored by Subhasish Bhattacharya, Program Manager, Windows Server. Introduction: Optimizing your private cloud In our discussions with customers, we learned that a key consideration for private cloud deployments is the capital expenditure (CapEx) required to go into production.
What’s new in failover clustering: #01 Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade
This post was authored by Rob Hindman, Senior Program Manager, Windows Server. Better agility for your private cloud We asked what you needed in the next release of Windows Server and we heard you clearly: you have made significant investments in the IT infrastructure that is used to deliver results for your business.
Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #5: Software-defined storage
This is the fifth post in the “Ten Reasons You’ll Love Windows Server 2016” videos by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. In this episode Matt interviews Elden Christensen, a Principal Program Manager in the Windows Server product group. Elden and his team bring the high availability and file services to the Windows Server platform.
Moving forward in the cloud world with software-defined storage
Over the coming weeks, we’ll be publishing more on Windows Server 2016 and the key capabilities coming in the next wave of Microsoft datacenter solutions. To start off, we’re looking at storage and its evolution. Stay tuned for more on software-defined datacenter and the modern application platform.
Next-generation storage for the software-defined datacenter
This is a post from Siddhartha Roy, Group PM Manager, High Availability and Storage and Paul Luber, Group PM Manager, Storage and File Systems Storage is a foundational component of the datacenter fabric and is an intrinsic part of Microsoft’s software-defined datacenter solution.
Microsoft Cloud Platform System: Storage Performance Overview Now Available
With the availability of the Microsoft Cloud Platform System (CPS), we’re excited to now share an overview of storage-focused performance of a single rack CPS stamp, with real workloads, at real scale. The paper we’re releasing here covers the following three scenarios, scaled across a deployment of tenant virtual machines (VMs): Scenario 1.
Reducing Storage Costs with Microsoft VDI
As enterprises are adapting to more personally owned devices, IT is looking for a way to manage these devices and provide the users with access to corporate applications and data while ensuring compliance.
Announcing the General Availability of Windows Server 2012 R2: The Heart of Cloud OS
For years now, Microsoft has been building and operating some of the largest cloud applications in the world. The expertise culled from these experiences along with our established history of delivering market-leading enterprise operating systems, platforms, and applications has led us to develop a new approach for the modern era: the Microsoft Cloud OS.