Tag: Windows Server 2012 R2
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New Windows Server 2012 R2 Innovations – Download Now
Windows Server 2012 R2 is in preview right now and ready for your evaluation. We have been rolling out detailed information on our Cloud OS vision though Brad Anderson’s What’s New in 2012 R2 blog series. That will continue but we thought you would like a short consolidated list for consideration. Here are some key innovations in Windows -
Software Defined Networking (SDN): Double-Clicking into our Point of View
A couple of weeks ago we spoke about our approach to Software Defined Networking (SDN) – an approach that is open and extensible, driven by experience and most importantly, one that lets you leverage your existing investments. Over the last few months, we have also spoken in detail about this with thousands of customers at -
Microsoft Presents “Enabling Consumerization without Compromising Compliance” at BriForum this Week
BriForum kicks off today in Chicago. BriForum 2013 is the only technical virtualization conference that is 100% dedicated to desktop virtualization, VDI, application virtualization, Remote Desktop Services, and the consumerization of IT. Later this week Microsoft Product Director Jason Leznek will present, “Enabling Consumerization Without Compromising Compliance”. Jason’s session is on Thursday morning and will -
What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 – End-to-End Scenarios Across Products
Although People-centric IT capabilities are great on Windows devices, these capabilities are not limited to Windows devices. We also put a lot of work into enabling first class support for heterogeneous devices in our People Centric IT capabilities. Putting users at the center of what we do includes enabling a broad set of devices. Active -
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – New Windows Server 2012 R2 Device Access and Information Protection
As you will have seen at Microsoft TechEd North America and Europe, we have just delivered the Preview Release of Windows Server 2012 R2 with a stunning amount of new capability that is Cloud First. My name is Adam Hall and I look after one of the solution areas within People-centric IT that we call -
Storage Transformation for your Datacenter
A few weeks ago, we addressed storage transformation in this blog – and how onsite storage, cloud storage, and recovery options are evolving. Below is a brief video overview of some of our key storage solutions. In this post, we will explore how storage is changing inside your datacenter, and how we transform industry standard disks -
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview is Now Available for Download
Today at TechEd Europe 2013 we announced availability of the System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 previews. You can download these products right now from the evaluation center. Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 provide a wealth of new advancements to help IT organizations build and deliver private and -
Transforming your Datacenter with Software-Defined Networking (SDN): Part I
With server virtualization, you are able to decouple a compute instance from the underlying hardware. That enables you to pool compute resources for greater flexibility. However, to truly transform your datacenter, you’ve also got to deliver your storage, compute, and networking resources as a shared, elastic resource pool for on-demand delivery of datacenter capacity. Indeed, -
Storage Transformation
Organizations face many challenges when it comes to storage. Data volumes are exploding, increasing the cost of storage and the headaches of storage management. The rise of Big Data analytics means more data is being collected and mined than ever before – 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years. -
Hybrid Cloud Computing with Windows Server and System Center
Over the past 15 months, we’ve delivered 3 waves of industry leading datacenter innovations with System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1. With these three releases, we have established a solid foundation for our enterprise and service provider customers to cloud-optimize their business. This week at TechEd, we announced a refresh -
Brad Anderson at TechEd 2013: Delivering on our vision with cloud-first approach
About 2 months ago, Brad Anderson kicked off a more regular and in depth cadence of blogging on our Microsoft Server and Cloud Blogs through the In the Cloud Blog. In this really short amount of time Brad has published 24 posts that really give an amazing in depth look at Microsoft’s Cloud OS and our cloud-first approach from his