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Day 2 of SNW-Some gems....
We are in day 2 of Storage Networking World and we have already seen some great new storage products to help Windows based customers managed their storage environment. The growth of unstructured data...
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Windows DNS Server's RPC interface
If you aren't already aware from press articles or the Microsoft Security Advisory, there are reports of an attack exploiting a vulnerability in the DNS Server Service in Windows 2000 Server SP4,...
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Storage Networking World- Another one done!
After four days of talks on virtualization, Green Storage, iSCSI, SRM, XAM and many other secret code acronyms, thousands of blood shot eyed and haggard looking storage professionals are going home....
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Microsoft and HP Deliver Storage Performance
One of the benchmarks important to gauge performance of file servers and NAS devices is SPECsfs97_R1 set up by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). This is a non-profit benchmarking...
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Are you a fan of FAN?
A large percentage of corporate data is in the form of file. Today roughly 80% of corporate networks data is unstructured. Also the forecasted growth of unstructured data is significantly higher than...
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Support for Applications on External Storage
Members of the Storage product management group still receive lots of inquiries about support and compatibility of Microsoft applications with external storage. The information most often requested is...
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Got TB?
It looks like acquiring storage capacity will remain on the “Top List” of IT Pros for the upcoming years. While this is a bit late as far “spring cleaning” season at home, it is never too late to do...
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WinHEC 2007: 64bit server OS
At some point along the way, you've probably been given this advice about public speaking: (1) tell them what you're going to say; (2) tell them; and (3) tell them what you've said. I've always found...
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Windows Server 2008, the storage story
With the “official” name of the next Windows server release announced last week at WinHEC (Windows Server 2008….shocker!) and with availability of Beta 3, I figured this was a good time to discuss some...
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Windows Server 2008, The Storage Story- REVISITED
Well, blogging can be full of excitement. I have found out that my blog posted on May 20th contains a non factual sentence as far as beta 3 is concerned. The following sentence: "SMB2.0 will also...
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Storage Performance matters… but how?
In the storage world, performance is a big deal and is often a differentiator….how do you ask? Well, some users will make a decision on Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI based on throughput performance, some...
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Webcasts: Install and Configure Windows Virtualization Technologies
[update: I'm told there were some issues with the webcast this morning so the schedule is being moved back by one day. The first webcast will be tomorrow, June 20, and it has a new event ID and replay...
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Opening doors into the home
There's been passing mentions of Windows Home Server on this blog. So I wanted to pass along that yesterday Windows Home Server was released to manufacturing ... ahead of schedule. You can watch the...
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New Domain-Based Namespaces On The Way!
Things have been a little quiet around here since we released Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 (over 250,000 downloads so far and counting!), so I wanted to take this chance to let you know about something...
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Data Protection Manager 2007 has released to manufacturing
This week, our Windows Storage Solutions division announced that DPM 2007 has released to manufacturing.In November, DPM 2007 will become generally available and will launch at Microsoft IT Forum in...
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Building a host cluster with Hyper-V beta
Hyper-V is a cluster-aware feature within Windows Server 2008, offering native support for VM high availability. And now that beta 1 is available, you can check it out yourself. So what are the 10...
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SBS myths dispelled...by "Tom"
In the course of talking to many Microsoft partners and customers, the Windows Small Business Server team has learned that there are sometimes misperceptions about the product, in many cases based on...
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Essential Business Server blog
The team behind Windows Essential Business Server 2008 for midsized companies (part of the newly announced Windows Essential Server Solutions family and formerly known as "Centro") has launched a team...
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Essential Business Server at Convergence
Lots happening in Orlando at Convergence 2008 - the Microsoft Dynamics users' conference. Steve Ballmer and vice president Kirill Tatarinov are speaking and the Dynamics team is making a number of...
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Windows Storage Solution Updates at SNW
In the spirit of keeping you updated on Windows Storage Solutions, this week members of our team are off to Orlando, Florida for the bi-annual Storage Networking World (SNW) conference. You may recall...
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