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August 13, 2007 1 min read

New Domain-Based Namespaces On The Way!

Things have been a little quiet around here since we released Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 (over 250,000 downloads so far and counting!), so I wanted to take this chance to let you know about something that you’ll soon be able to take advantage of in Windows Server 2008.

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April 10, 2008 1 min read

Windows Storage Solution Updates at SNW

In the spirit of keeping you updated on Windows Storage Solutions, this week members of our team are off to Orlando, Florida for the bi-annual Storage Networking World (SNW) conference.

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May 5, 2009 1 min read

Windows Storage Server 2008 is here!

Hi, my name is Bala Kasiviswanathan, director of Storage Solutions Marketing here at Microsoft, and I’m pleased to announce the release of Windows Storage Server 2008 (WSS08) to our OEM partners.

Updates September 20, 2011 1 min read

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”.

October 14, 2011 1 min read

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”.

Updates April 19, 2012 5 min read

SMB 2.2 is now SMB 3.0

We are at an exciting stage of the release.

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Updates June 5, 2013 3 min read

Storage Transformation

Organizations face many challenges when it comes to storage.

Updates October 3, 2013 1 min read

EMC Support for the SMB 3.0 Protocol – the Future of Storage Protocols

One of the key issues this blog has covered recently is the transformation of storage.

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Announcements October 18, 2013 7 min read

Announcing the General Availability of Windows Server 2012 R2: The Heart of Cloud OS

For years now, Microsoft has been building and operating some of the largest cloud applications in the world.

Updates January 10, 2014 2 min read

Reducing Storage Costs with Microsoft VDI

As enterprises are adapting to more personally owned devices, IT is looking for a way to manage these devices and provide the users with access to corporate applications and data while ensuring compliance.

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Announcements March 9, 2015 1 min read

Microsoft Cloud Platform System: Storage Performance Overview Now Available

With the availability of the Microsoft Cloud Platform System (CPS), we’re excited to now share an overview of storage-focused performance of a single rack CPS stamp, with real workloads, at real scale.

Updates May 5, 2015 6 min read

Next-generation storage for the software-defined datacenter

This is a post from Siddhartha Roy, Group PM Manager, High Availability and Storage and Paul Luber, Group PM Manager, Storage and File Systems Storage is a foundational component of the datacenter fabric and is an intrinsic part of Microsoft’s software-defined datacenter solution.

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