Part 6 - Hyper-V
In Windows 2012, the concept of the private cloud is finally at your fingertips. Long gone are the half baked, half delivered features of Windows Server that promised ‘virtualization.’ VMWare had
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