Hi Folks, I love product reviews for storage server solutions!  Here is a great example:  http://Storagereview.com has a new review posted on the StoreEasy 5530, a Windows Storage Server 2012 solution from HP that continues to gain solid momentum...

Hi folks, You’ve probably heard that Windows Server 2012 and Windows Storage Server 2012 have some pretty cool storage features. We spent almost 3 years building a set of features that would deliver the best “bang for your buck” and that investment is...

Hi Folks. In this blog post I am highlighting the new HP StoreEasy product line!  In December 2012, at the HP Discover conference in Frankfurt, Germany, HP launched the new HP StoreEasy Storage family running Windows Storage Server 2012. The company...

As mentioned in my previous post, I recently traveled to China, where I spent time with Huawei—a new Windows Storage Server 2012 OEM. During the visit, I was really impressed by how all the people I met were very knowledgeable about storage and demonstrated...

Hi folks, Lots of things have been happening since my last blog article. We released Windows Storage Server 2012 to Microsoft hardware partners in September 2012 and I’ve been traveling far-and-wide to train engineers and support staff. I wound-up the...

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...

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...

Today at 11:00am PST there is a webcast with IBM to discuss their Windows NAS product line. We would like to welcome you to come and join John Donovan and Scott Johnson (that’s me!) to discuss the capabilities and configurations that are possible in this...

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...