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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. An example of this hybrid approach is -
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+). Over the past 10 years, Microsoft -
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. We’ve always been concerned about our customers’ Capital/Operation expense (Capex/Opex) -
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. Whether you’re using a block-based storage area network (SAN) or a file-based solution, we are heavily invested in both -
Rocking the Windows Server “8” Administrative Experience
Windows Server has always distinguished and prided itself on its Administrative Experience. Our mission for Windows Server “8” was to deliver the best cloud-optimized OS. This required us to reimagine the experience, focusing on scenario-based multi-machine management from a client machine implemented on top of PowerShell and WMI. When you see and use it, I -
Where to Find Previous Windows Server “8” Posts
The Windows Server Product team is streamlining the blogging process. All future Windows Server Blogs will be coming from here. You will hear a lot more over the next couple of months from Bill Laing, VP of the Server and Cloud Division, Jeffrey Snover, Distinguished Engineer for Windows Server and other leaders from Windows Server. We -
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. The response from