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Broadcom Takes IPsec to Task (Offload That Is)!
07 November 07 06:49 PM
Our friends over at Broadcom announced on Tuesday (November 6th) a new super cool, 65nm Gigabit Ethernet controller that will incorporate support for Window Vista's IPsec Task Offload functionality! As my boss' boss said in the press release: "Thanks Read More...
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Windows File Serving: Now with More Scalability
05 September 07 08:56 AM
Okay, okay. It's been a long while. I have no excuses. Well, at least good excuses. I was on vacation last week. Then there was the ramp-up to the vacation the weeks before. Before that there was this really good TV show on. My dog ate my Internet? No? Read More...
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Intel I/OAT w/ WS08 @ 1/10 GigE + More Stuff
08 August 07 04:54 PM
I'm back (er, yet again) from another blogging hiatus, and figured I'd share with you a little news around what we're doing in Windows Server 2008 with regards to Scalable Networking . Here's the news: our pals over at Intel recently launched a bunch Read More...
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New White Paper on Intel's I/OAT with the Scalable Networking Pack
13 June 07 08:54 PM
I'm back, healthy and attempting to catch up from TechEd 2007. While it was a killer time down in Orlando, there was plenty of good stuff piled up on my desk (and in my inbox) on my return to Redmond. One of those items on the "good stuff" pile, was a Read More...
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Tech·Ed 2007 - Day 3: My First Session (Recap)
06 June 07 12:37 PM
Technically it is day 4 for me, but I had a little trouble posting yesterday evening since just about all the bandwidth in my hotel was consumed. I ran the handy Speakeasy Speed Test a bunch of times and it was barely making it over 300 Kbps on the download Read More...
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The 2007 Tour: From SecMan to WinHEC to Interop and on to TechEd
23 May 07 11:36 AM
May. What a crazy month! What is it that they say? "May comes in with a joint launch for Forefront and System Center , and goes out with a Windows Server 2008 demo for a BillG keynote at WinHEC in LA" Maybe I'm confusing the old adage about the month Read More...
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WinServer "Longhorn" B3: This time it's "Ready, Set, (Download), and Evaluate!"
25 April 07 06:01 PM
That's right Windows Server "Longhorn" fans, Beta 3 is ready for your evaluation! Simply visit http://www.microsoft.com/getbeta3 , and you're halfway there to trying out the first major public preview of our next generation of Windows Server. As our press Read More...
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More TCP Offload Than You Can Shake a TOE At!
16 April 07 05:39 PM
Last week, Alacritech (one of our Scalable Networking partners ) made a pretty big announcement around expanded support for our TCP Chimney Offload architecture : "Alacritech Unveils Industry's Most Advanced Family of Microsoft TCP Chimney Offload Compatible Read More...
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WinServer 2003 SP2 Comes Alive!
13 March 07 04:35 PM
So. Yes. Okay. I'm a Peter Frampton fan. And, when I learned that our planned release of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) had, well, released today , it made me think of Frampton's " Frampton Comes Alive! " album from 1976. Why? I don't know. Read More...
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Ahead Warp 1, Mr. Network
21 December 06 10:15 AM
It's that time of year again when the Christmas music plays endlessly from every speaker within earshot, people start to heading home for the holidays, and a team at Siemens sets a record for (and I quote) " electrical processing of data through a fiber-optic Read More...
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Scalable Networking News: Alacritech and NetXen Partner to Drive 10 GigE on TCP Chimney Offload
21 November 06 11:13 AM
Industry momentum around our Scalable Networking initiative, with its innovative technologies like TCP Chimney Offload and Receive-side Scaling, continues as our partners deliver new solutions for high-speed networking within Windows environments. This Read More...
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Scalable Networking News: Intel Opens Up and Says "QuickData Technology"
17 October 06 11:50 AM
There's some pretty neat news coming out Intel's big Developer Forum event this week in Taipei. Just a few months after releasing Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) as part of the Bensley (Xeon 5000 series) processor-based platform, they are now Read More...
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Better Together Networking Scenarios w/ Vista and Longhorn Server
16 October 06 02:27 PM
Last week I delivered two webcasts for the Windows Vista TAP program members on a number of "better together" networking scenarios when you have Windows Vista on the client and Windows Server "Longhorn" on the back end. Here's a link to one of the webcasts Read More...
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Packing the Scalable Networking Pack into Service Pack 2
13 August 06 10:37 PM
There's a lot of great stuff to look forward to in the upcoming Service Pack 2 (SP2) release for Windows Server 2003. Among the long list of updates (see Ward's posting to the Windows Server Division's blog for the complete list) are two personal fav's: Read More...
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Gone Podcastin' - New Podcasts on 10G Networking with Longhorn and IPsec Interop
11 July 06 01:58 PM
Checkout these two recent podcasts: Server and Domain Isolation with Fernando Cima (MSFT Brazil) This podcast is from Port 25 which is run by the gang over in Microsoft's Open Software Labs. Fernando is a member of the Security Center of Excellence and Read More...
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