The engineering teams that have been working so hard on the next version of Windows Server, code named “Windows Server 8” have been excited to show the world all the new features they’ve created in response to customer feedback. They...

Greetings from the Storage Developer Conference, where I had the opportunity to introduce attendees to some of the new storage capabilities in “ Windows Server 8 .” Following Bill Laing’s post introducing the product, I would like to...

By Ed Anderson, Microsoft Today Dell offers vStart 50m for Hyper-V In April Dell and Microsoft announced a new, three-year initiative to help our customers deploy and manage virtualization and private cloud technologies. Since that time, we have...

Today at the Microsoft BUILD conference I had the pleasure of introducing the developer preview of the next release of Windows Server codenamed Windows Server 8 , now available on MSDN. In a room full of software developers and hardware partners I got...

I am very excited to announce the Release Candidate of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (VMM) and the corresponding Evaluation VHD . This is a great step forward in enabling our customers to create private cloud solutions, and will allow you...

Today, we’re happy to announce the beta release of Data Protection Manager 2012, with the latest and greatest System Center data protection capabilities. In its fourth generation, Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 builds on a...

Contest update: This week we kicked off the “ Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud” Contest, read official rules . As of the time of this post, we still have not received a winning entry and have two remaining Xbox Kinect bundles to give away...