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Webinar – Windows Server 2016: Better Security starts at the OS
We know security is a top priority for you and your company. In the last few years we’ve seen an increased number of companies breached, information leaked and cybersecurity cases in the news. Clearly every organization needs to strengthen its security posture – but where do you start? The answer is the Operating System! Windows -
A deep-dive into Cluster OS Rolling Upgrades in Windows Server 2016
The story of Failover Clustering in Windows Server goes back to Windows NT! This feature was developed largely as a way to keep servers and their underlying applications and workloads running – even if a node in the cluster was to fail. It ensures high uptime requirements and Service Level Agreements can be met. Over -
Microsoft and Intel squeezed hyper-convergence into the overhead bin
This post was authored by Cosmos Darwin, Program Manager, Windows Server. The Challenge In the Windows Server team, we tend to focus on going big. Our enterprise customers and service providers are increasingly relying on Windows as the foundation of their software-defined datacenters, and needless to say, our hyperscale public cloud Azure does too. Recent -
Enabling Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V virtualization based security features on other platforms
This post was authored by Mike Schutz, General Manager, Cloud Platform. Security is a top-of-mind topic for every organization. This is why Microsoft is investing deeply to provide advanced security across our technology portfolio. With the launch of Windows Server 2016 this week, we introduced new advanced multi-layer security capabilities to provide additional ways to -
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V large-scale VM performance for in-memory transaction processing
This post was authored by Liang Yang, Principal Performance Engineer on the Hyper-V team and Jos de Bruijn, Senior Program Manager on the SQL Server team. With Windows Server 2016, Microsoft has significantly bumped up the Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) scale limit to embrace new scenarios such as running e-commerce large in-memory databases for Online -
Launch day has arrived!
Be sure to check out our blog post today announcing the launch of Windows Server 2016. -
Don’t miss Windows Server sessions at Ignite
Heading to Atlanta for Ignite? Check out our handy Ignite session guide on the new Hybrid Cloud blog. -
Sneak preview of Windows Server 2016 for SDDC
Check out this post on our new Hybrid Cloud blog for some demos of the new software-defined datacenter features in Windows Server 2016. -
Windows Server scalability and more!
This post was authored by Jeff Woolsey, Principal Program Manager, Windows Server. We are about a month away from Microsoft Ignite 2016 in Atlanta and we are eager to see you and provide a first-class tour of Windows Server, System Center, OMS, Azure, along with so much more. For those of you who have been -
Announcing the new VMware migration offer for Windows Server 2016
With the launch of Windows Server 2016, customers have more reasons than ever to switch from VMware to Microsoft. We want to make it an easy decision for VMware customers to switch to Hyper-V, so today we are announcing a new VMware migration offer. Free Windows Server Datacenter licenses when you buy Windows Server Datacenter -
What’s new in failover clustering: #08 Cloud Witness
This post was authored by Amitabh Tamhane, Program Manager, Windows Server Introduction The primary goal of failover clustering in Windows Server is to provide a reliable infrastructure to make workloads highly available. Configuring quorum correctly for failover clusters is an important step in ensuring high availability for the cluster itself. This helps to make applications