Tag: Windows Server 8
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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 -
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 -
Windows Server 8: Standards-Based Storage Management
Take a look at Jeffrey Snover’s blog post, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Window Server, where he discusses standards-based storage management in the next release of Windows Server codenamed “Windows Server 8”. Read Jeffrey’s post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. -
Storage and Continuous Availability Enhancements in Windows Server 8
Check out Thomas Pfenning’s blog post, General Manager Server and Tools, where he discusses the storage and availability enhancements in the next release of Windows Server codenamed “Windows Server 8”. Read Thomas’ post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. -
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.