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...

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 ...

Hi there! I'm Scott Johnson, Program Manager for the Windows Storage Server product line. We have many cool things going on in the Windows Storage Server team that need to be talked about, so we decided to kick off this blog! For starters, here is a rundown...

Windows Storage Server 2012, built using Windows Server 2012 technologies, is a platform for Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. The storage team is working with our hardware partners to bring new storage solutions to market based on Windows Storage...

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...

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...

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...

Here is a very brief outline of the history of the Windows Storage Server product line and a feature breakdown for each edition. Storage Server Release Timeline Once upon a time, right around January 2002, Microsoft saw a trend that has yet to stop: the...

Wow!  It is finally here!  It has been a labor of love for me and I am very pleased to announce the availability of Windows Storage Server 2008. We have been working on the engineering to produce these editions of Windows for over two years...

The first Windows Storage Server 2008- based products have just released from HP this week, here is an excerpt from their blog: “The new HP StorageWorks X1000 and X3000 Network Storage Systems enable customers to easily manage and optimize their storage...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

Dell has launched their new storage appliance that is powered by Windows Storage Server 2008!   This is a great example of what can happen with a partnership of Microsoft with a server manufacturer.  Windows Storage Server 2008 with a PowerVault...

Here it is! The iSCSI Target team has compiled a great FAQ to kick off the new release.  Checkout these entries and if you have additional questions click the little link below to send me a message and we will continue to build on the FAQ. We hope...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Windows IT Pro magazine’s Michael Otey published a review of the X5520 G2 , the latest Cluster-in-a-box (CiB) from HP that is running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2. You can learn about CiB system designs and links to presentations on Jose Barreto’s most...

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...