I am on the floor of HP Discover, the premier event of the year for HP hardware and software solutions. I am really impressed by the breadth of products, services and solutions that HP has to offer. They just announced today the newest addition to the...

Microsoft released the iSCSI Software Target 3.3 on the download center in April. I have seen many people download, try it out, and gave great feedback. We had a question raised about the policy for supporting iSCSI Target with initiator clusters using...

The Windows Storage Server team will be at #MSTechEd all week, the Microsoft Technical Education conference with thousands of people getting the latest technical details and interacting with Microsoft product experts. If you're attending TechEd 2011 this...

The new Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 includes support for a new feature called differencing virtual hard disks (VHDs). This feature helps deploy diskless boot for servers running Windows, especially in a Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 compute cluster...

Microsoft got into the iSCSI Target business when we acquired WinTarget from String Bean software in 2006 . We continued to improve the software over the last 5 years; increasing performance and reliability, adding support for new languages and technologies...

Today, the Small Business Server engineering team signed off the release of Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials! Check out all of the cool capabilities on the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 announcement blog . This exciting milestone means OEM partners...

Acer comes to market with a strong storage offering of a 2U server that delivers 3.5" hot-pluggable SAS or SATA HDDs, up to 12TB SATA or 5.4TB SAS configurations running with a pair of Xeon E5620 processors. This Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 –based...

Checkout the PC-Pro review that just came out for the latest StorageWorks X1500, which is a Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 appliance. See the entire review here:    HP StorageWorks X1500 G2 4TB review This is another great HP offering bringing...

The Microsoft OEM Engineering Services team has some valuable services that Windows Storage Server partners can leverage to help design, deliver and support embedded storage solutions. Getting access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM) can really impact...

Claus Joergensen, one of the founding fathers of Windows Storage Server, had a great post today about a new white paper, available here , discussing the best practices and guidance for sizing NTFS volumes. The paper also has details on self-healing NTFS...

I Windows Storage Server!!  Happy (belated) Valentine’s day!  It’s a day late, but here is a little love for all the people in the field that need to solve storage problems. A new whitepaper is now available that will answer a ton of questions...

If you are using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to manage and monitor your servers, you can now load the new management pack for the iSCSI Software Target and Single Instance Storage (SIS). Both of these storage components are key contributors...

The momentum for Windows Storage Server is growing! Take the awesome network storage and branch office features in the OS and when they are combined with hardware, software and services available from top manufacturers, they create high-performance storage...

Check out the new iSCSI migration guide that was just posted on TechNet under the “Planning and Deployment” section of the iSCSI Software Target 3.3 Technical Library.   This is located in the TechNet tree-view here: If you have iSCSI Targets...

Check out the latest Windows Storage Server 2008 R2-based appliances from Starline computer GmbH!  These systems look like they can really rock some storage with 10Gbit Ethernet and 6Gbit SAS. See the new datasheet for the NDL-3000RW . I love the...

HP has done it again! They just started shipping a new breed of Windows Storage Servers and they demonstrated them on the show floor at TechEd Berlin on November 8th -12th. They have a sweet portfolio of Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 products now available;...

Here are some relevant references to Windows Storage Server-centric content. Keep checking back for more links. Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Microsoft.com:  http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/wss08.aspx   TechNet Overview : http...

Guten Morgen from Germany! Joel Garcia blogging from TechEd Berlin, where we are announcing and showing off Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, the newest member of the Storage Server product family. The Windows Storage Server Blog lives here ...

One of the big features in iSCSI Software Target 3.3 are the new PowerShell cmdlets.  Here is the new Technical Reference page:  iSCSI Software Target Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg278022.aspx Checkout...

Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 has been released to our OEM manufacturers!  In my opinion, this OEM platform is by far the best value for your money for a network-attached storage (NAS) appliance operating system. Our OEMs tell us that they prefer...

Checkout these new papers from the Windows Storage Server Product Team: Windows Storage Server 2008 Architecture and Deployment Paper This white paper describes the features and technologies in Windows Storage Server, and how to create secure, extensible...

Storage appliances can be configured with a wide variety of hardware, and can be used as individual servers or combined into a high-availability solution using the failover cluster functionality in Windows. Windows Storage Server 2008 clusters can host...

The iSCSI Software Target can be used in so many ways it’s like the Swiss army knife of transportable storage. In this post I outline my favorite uses for an iSCSI Software Target, if you know of other creative uses please let me know! Windows Storage...

I just saw this on the SCCM blog, this might be helpful! http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrteam/archive/2009/11/09/configuration-manager-support-announcements-for-november-2009.aspx Windows Storage Server 2008 is now supported on System Center Configuration...

Hi folks, here are some great links on TechNet to help OEMs and end-users with Windows Storage Server 2008 and the iSCSI Software Target. Windows Storage Server 2008 Storage Server Overview:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd573315(WS...