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Windows Storage Server 2008 is here!

Hi, my name is Bala Kasiviswanathan, director of Storage Solutions Marketing here at Microsoft, and I’m pleased to announce the release of Windows Storage Server 2008 (WSS08) to our OEM partners. WSS08 is built upon Windows Server 2008 – the industry-leading

Microsoft Partnership with RSA for Information Protection

Hi all – I’m David Hastie, senior product manager in the Identity and Security Business Group here at Microsoft. I wanted to flag an announcement Microsoft made today in the area of information protection and data loss prevention. It involves Rights Management

SBS 2008: Released to Manufacturing!

Excerpt from the post on the SBS blog by group program manager Dean Paron: On behalf of the SBS team, I am extremely pleased to announce that Windows Small Business Server 2008 software has been finalized! Today both SBS Standard and Premium are being

Data protection manager 2007 -- now backing up windows server 2008

The Windows Storage Solutions team that manages DPM 2007 is very excited to announce that the ‘ Rollup Update ’ for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is now available for download.   The biggest new workload that DPM now

Windows Essential Server Solutions go public

Good news. Today we opened up the Public Preview for Windows Essential Server Solutions - Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 . Visit here to find out how to download and evaluate the Release Candidate 0 versions of both. EBS

Windows Storage Solution Updates at SNW

In the spirit of keeping you updated on Windows Storage Solutions, this week members of our team are off to Orlando, Florida for the bi-annual Storage Networking World (SNW) conference. You may recall that last October at SNW, we announced the RTM of

Essential Business Server at Convergence

Lots happening in Orlando at Convergence 2008 - the Microsoft Dynamics users' conference. Steve Ballmer and vice president Kirill Tatarinov are speaking and the Dynamics team is making a number of announcements , including a partnership with EDS to extend

Essential Business Server blog

The team behind Windows Essential Business Server 2008 for midsized companies (part of the newly announced Windows Essential Server Solutions family and formerly known as "Centro") has launched a team blog here . Group Program Manager Eric Watson provides

SBS myths dispelled...by "Tom"

In the course of talking to many Microsoft partners and customers, the Windows Small Business Server team has learned that there are sometimes misperceptions about the product, in many cases based on experiences with the earlier versions of SBS. In hopes

Building a host cluster with Hyper-V beta

Hyper-V is a cluster-aware feature within Windows Server 2008, offering native support for VM high availability. And now that beta 1 is available, you can check it out yourself. So what are the 10 steps you have to go through to build a host cluster using iSCSI shared storage? Read Robert Larson's post. Screen captures included ;-) Patrick

Data Protection Manager 2007 has released to manufacturing

This week, our Windows Storage Solutions division announced that DPM 2007 has released to manufacturing. In November, DPM 2007 will become generally available and will launch at Microsoft IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain. DPM 2007 sets a new standard in protecting

New Domain-Based Namespaces On The Way!

Things have been a little quiet around here since we released Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 (over 250,000 downloads so far and counting!), so I wanted to take this chance to let you know about something that you'll soon be able to take advantage of in Windows

Opening doors into the home

There's been passing mentions of Windows Home Server on this blog. So I wanted to pass along that yesterday Windows Home Server was released to manufacturing ... ahead of schedule. You can watch the final sign-off meeting here. OEM products will hit the store shelves this fall. It's been more than 4 years since Windows Server 2003 was released, and since then it has been the basis for new storage and small business servers, Microsoft's entry into high-performance computing, branch office and 64-bit computing ... and now the home. Go check Home Server. Patrick

Webcasts: Install and Configure Windows Virtualization Technologies

[update: I'm told there were some issues with the webcast this morning so the schedule is being moved back by one day. The first webcast will be tomorrow, June 20, and it has a new event ID and replay URL. The changes are noted below] Geared for OEM and SI audiences, a couple colleagues are hosting live (and archived) webcasts on installation and configuration of Virtual Server 2005 SP1, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and Virtual Server with Data Protection Manager (for back/recovery). These Webinars are this week; in fact, the first one has already begun.

Storage Performance matters… but how?

In the storage world, performance is a big deal and is often a differentiator….how do you ask? Well, some users will make a decision on Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI based on throughput performance, some users will make a specific purchasing decision on a device
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