RDMA networking has enabled high-performance computing for years, but Windows Server 2012 R2 with SMB Direct is bringing it to the mainstream. File-based storage has grown tremendously over the last ...

Microsoft quietly published new pricing and licensing sheets for its coming Windows Server 2012 R2 product. The bad news: Those who want the Datacenter version are going to have to shell out 28 ...

A report released last month by Directions on Microsoft offers a few suggestions on how to buy Microsoft's newest server, when it becomes available. Prices will not be changing for the Standard ...

Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Server 2019 product will include "software-defined datacenters" (SDDCs) among its top 10 supported networking features, the company said recently. Per Microsoft's ...

What’s new in Windows Server Azure Edition: Everything you need to know Your email has been sent The special Azure image for Windows Server gets new features ...

Microsoft announced the general availability of hotpatching for Windows Server Azure Edition core virtual machines allowing admins to install Windows security updates on supported VMs without ...

Microsoft's Windows Datacenter Server has been about more than technology features since its launch in late 2000. Fittingly, the tightly controlled support program that makes Datacenter Server so ...

While Windows Server has been ubiquitous in the business environment for most of the 21 st century, the migration of the corporate world to virtualization and the cloud has left Microsoft playing ...

I am going to be setting up a new VM host and am deciding between these two options. I chose Windows as I have the most experience with Hyper-V and I like the ability to use a drive on Windows (NTFS) ...

With Windows Server 2012, there wasn’t much that distinguished Windows Server Standard and Windows Server Datacenter beyond the licensing details. Microsoft really decided to shake things up and ...