The pending launch of Windows Server 2012 release 2 focuses on offering a number of advanced capabilities in storage and networking, which used to require the purchase of additional software, or even ...

Brien puts the new tiered storage feature through the ringer to see what hidden hardware requirements are needed to run smoothly. One of the most anticipated new features in Windows Server 2012 R2 is ...

Microsoft recently described a number of improvements to expect with its R2 version of Windows Server 2012, which may arrive as a public preview release next week. The "customer preview" of Windows ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Microsoft delivered a completely new way of looking at our disks and storage in Windows Server 2012, with the biggest change in how storage is laid out and provisioned. Here's how to create and manage ...

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Reliable storage is a key building block for any enterprise application infrastructure. Traditionally, this translates into some type of network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN).

Microsoft's newly updated server operating system and tools sport more of Azure's feature set, writ small for private clouds If Microsoft wants Windows Server 2012 R2 to be any one thing, it’s Windows ...

Today, Microsoft officially releases Windows Server 2012, the first of its latest wave of new operating systems. It shares a few things with the upcoming Windows 8 client operating system, including ...

From UEFI to full-disk encryption to improvements in IIS, Windows Server 2012's security features alone provide reason enough to upgrade With the shift to the new Metro user interface, a lot of people ...

Windows Server 2012 Essentials software can be downloaded, but you won't find it on hardware for a few more months. According to a Microsoft announcement, Windows Server 2012 Essentials was released ...