Part 5.4 - Cluster Shared Volumes
Sorry about the delay in continuing my series. In the time I was away, I attended TechEd (always an impressive show) and got wrapped up with two different clients. All good things but
Part 5.3 - Clustering and Hyper-V Awesomeness
One of the challenges I can already see with all that is new and good when building out my private cloud is – which amazing clustering storage ‘thing’ should I use
Part 5.2 Cluster Aware Patching
One of my particular annoyances and pain points with Windows is patching. Oh how I hate patching. It happens at least one Tuesday of every month and while WS8 does improve greatly on
Part 5.1 - Clustering Fun
I was thinking that I’d just go through each of the technical preview documents, call out the stuff that I thought was cool, break it down into easily readable prose, go
Part 4 - Direct Access
Remote access is a tough nut to crack. On the one hand, every employee needs access to their corporate resources at all times of the day and from whatever device they can shake
Part 3 - Branch Cache
Perhpas my favorite WS8 feature, Branch Cache, has received tremendous updates in this release. Branch Cache is a technology originally released in the 08 versions of Windows Server that allows companies with large
Part 2 - Making the Administration of Servers Easier
It comes as no surprise that in order to build a private cloud (or a public one if you’re in the hosting space) that the fewer server admins per server, the
Part 1 - Active Directory
One of the most stable and well designed pieces of software to come out of Microsoft – ever – is Active Directory. While its development was riddled with twists and turns (and the
The Coming Storm - Introduction
If ever there was a time when the technology of the world that enables millions of businesses and this new concept of the cloud converged on a single piece of software, it is
The Coming Storm - Windows 8
I am beginning a series on all that is amazing in Windows Server 8. There will be 55 posts in all. It’s a very exciting time! Look for them to start
The State of Storage in 2012
There is a great article in Information Week this week about the 2012 State of Storage that I wanted to comment on. If you don’t have a subscription, that’s
Captain Thomas
I was en route the other day from Seattle to DFW. Home from a fun and thoroughly educational trip to Microsoft HQ for a super secret top classified semi-decoder ring style event. Had