There have been many new advancements in Windows Server technologies in the past few Windows Server releases. Many of these have improved upon the core features of Windows Server, including the resiliency and high-availability features it offers. One of the newer features found in Windows [...]
Quick Bites: Deduplication saves space: Eliminates duplicate data in Hyper-V environments, potentially saving 10x the storage space ReFS + Deduplication now available: Windows Server 2019 unlocks ReFS deduplication, removing a major limitation Performance benefits: ReFS offers fast virtual disk provisioning and efficient checkpoint merging Considerations [...]
Windows Server 2019 brings about tremendous changes and improvements to Windows Server architecture. There are great improvements in the realm of hybrid cloud, storage spaces direct, security, HCI, and many others that help to take the enterprise data center to the next level when running [...]
Remote Access is one of the key components of empowering the mobile workforce for productivity when away from the central production location and network. Over the years, the Virtual Private Network or VPN connection has been a staple of the remote access mobile workforce that [...]
One of the powerful features of Windows Server is the ability to create Windows Failover Clusters. With Windows Failover clustering, pools of hardware resources can be bound together in a virtual entity that allows seamlessly hosting resources in a way that is highly available and [...]
There is arguably no hotter topic in information technology today than security. Security is discussed at basically all levels of infrastructure and network topologies up the entire OSI layer stack. Vendors today are struggling to keep up with the security demands needed by customers in [...]
Introduction As per Microsoft, "Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 will end on October 10, 2023. After this date, these products will no longer receive security updates, non-security updates, bug fixes, technical support, or online technical content updates." This situation can leave your server [...]
Each new version of Windows Server has generally improved on the underlying technologies contained in previous releases of Windows. This is true across the board with Windows Server 2019. Features related to high-availability and disaster recovery have been improved with Windows Server 2019 as well. [...]
When designing any system for high availability, one of the basic fundamentals of engineering in any system is to provide redundancy. Redundancy ensures that if you do have failures (you will), there are components or mechanisms in place that will take over for the failed [...]
Windows Server 2019 brings about significant improvements across the platform when it comes to software-defined solutions. Software-defined storage is garnering a lot of attention from customers as most are looking outside of traditional storage with upcoming refreshes for storage infrastructure. With Storage Spaces Direct being [...]
