Microsoft delivered a completely new way of looking at our disks and storage in Windows Server 2012, with the biggest change in how storage is laid out and provisioned. Here's how to create and manage ...

The pending launch of Windows Server 2012 release 2 focuses on offering a number of advanced capabilities in storage and networking, which used to require the purchase of additional software, or even ...

Microsoft recently described a number of improvements to expect with its R2 version of Windows Server 2012, which may arrive as a public preview release next week. The "customer preview" of Windows ...

10/21/2014 - With the announcement last month of the award-winning Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials NAS release, Microsoft and Thecus have lain down the gauntlet for the storage industry.

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

SSD manufacturer sTec on Monday unveiled an all-SSD appliance based on industry-standard components and Microsoft's Windows Storage Server 2012 operating system. The sTec s3000 storage appliance, ...

Windows Server 2012 is not the only server-specific product that the Redmondians made generally available this week. A couple of other related server SKUs are now available for test/evaluation and ...

Microsoft officially released Windows Server 2012 at a launch event, which consisted of a four-part Webcast, featuring Microsoft executives and demos, signaling the general availability of Microsoft's ...

Reliable storage is a key building block for any enterprise application infrastructure. Traditionally, this translates into some type of network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN).

Microsoft wants to test the limits of flash storage. To that end, the company has been working with startup Violin Memory to develop the new Windows Flash Array, a converged storage-server appliance ...

Flash storage is one of the fastest-growing new datacenter technologies these days and while critics warn it can cost a lot, proponents say it can vastly improve performance and reduce operational and ...