Links to //build/ sessions on Storage, Networking and Hyper-V

Last month at the //Build/ conference we had a large number of presentations delivered and made available to download and stream. Several Microsoft Partners and Developers that are focused on Storage, Networking or Hyper-V have asked me for a list of links to help them find the Widows Server 8 sessions more closely related to those topics. Here is my attempt to create that list:

Sessions related to Continuous Availability:

• Keynote #2 – Building Continuous Services
• 973 - Windows Server 8
• 443 -Business and partnering opportunities: Windows Server 8 continuous availability
• 474 - Platform storage evolved
• 446 - Designing systems for continuous availability and scalability
• 450 - Designing systems for continuous availability - multi-node with block storage
• 444 - Designing systems for continuous availability - multi-node with remote file storage
• 451- Building continuously available systems with Hyper-V
• 449 - Building continuously available file server NAS appliances

Sessions related to Private Clouds:

• 429 - Using Windows Server 8 for Building Private and Public IaaS Clouds
• 430 - Designing the Building Blocks for a Windows Server 8 Cloud
• 433 - Network Acceleration and Other NIC Technologies for the Datacenter
• 437 - A Deep Dive into Hyper-V Networking
• 439 - Enabling Converged Fabric and Multi-Tenancy for the Cloud Using QoS
• 422 - Building Secure, Scalable Multi-Tenant Clouds Using Network Virtualization
• 559 - Extending The Hyper-V Switch
• 565 - Windows Networking with PowerShell: A Foundation for Datacenter Management
• 593 - New Techniques to Develop Low Latency Network Applications
• 417 - Windows Server - Performance Improvements and Optimizations

Sessions related to Claims-based Access Control and Branch Cache:

• 422 - Using claims-based access control for compliance and information governance
• 425 - Building security auditing solutions for compliance and forensic analysis
• 426 - Using classification for access control and compliance
• 592 - Optimal Cloud Performance with BranchCache

Related blog posts on official Microsoft blogs:

• Windows Server 8: An Introduction (blog post by Bill Laing)
• Storage and Continuous Availability Enhancements in Windows Server 8 (blog post by Thomas Pfenning)
• Windows Server 8 Heterogeneous Storage Support (blog post by Thomas Pfenning)
• Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Overview (blog post by Mike Neil)
• Windows Server 8: Introducing Hyper-V Extensible Switch (blog post by Mike Neil)
• Windows Server 8: Standards-Based Storage Management (blog post by Jeffrey Snover)
• Windows 8 Platform Storage – Part 1 (blog post by Rajeev Nagar)
• Windows 8 Platform Storage – Part 2 (blog post by Rajeev Nagar)

Other interesting links released since the //build/ conference:

• White paper on Windows 8 SMB 2.2 File Sharing Performance including details on SMB 2.2 and Multichannel with 10GbE interfaces.
• Preview specifications for SMB 2.2 [MS-SMB2-Preview], SMB Direct [MS-SMBD-Preview], Content Caching and Retrieval [MS-CCRSOD] and File Server Remote RSS [MS-FSRVP].
• File Server Capacity Tool 1.2 (FSCT 1.2) released, now with support for File Servers using Windows Server Failover Cluster. 64-bit and 32-bit versions.
• White paper with Guidelines for Building Private and Public Clouds: Building an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud Using Windows Server 8

Have fun reading and/or watching them… :-)