• Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 is now available!

    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...
  • Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 – New Storage Spaces Functionality and Improved Data Deduplication

    Hi Folks – If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I’m working my way through the list of my top 10 new features in Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 . In this post, I’ll examine how we made it even easier to cost-effectively scale your storage capacity...
  • Supermicro’s New Cluster-in-a-Box Solutions Running Windows Storage Server 2012 R2

    Hi Folks – Most of us know the name Supermicro (a.k.a. Super Micro Computer), which designs, develops, manufactures, and sells a broad range of server systems, storage servers, high-end workstations, chassis, motherboards, and other server components...
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 – What’s New for Deployment and Management?

    Hi Folks – Over the past few months, I’ve covered eight of the items on my list of Top 10 New and Improved Features in Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 . Here are the links to the entire blog series: What’s New for SMB and the iSCSI Target Server Work Folders...
  • Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials!

    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 ...