Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Server 2019 product will include "software-defined datacenters" (SDDCs) among its top 10 supported networking features, the company said recently. Per Microsoft's ...

RDMA networking has enabled high-performance computing for years, but Windows Server 2012 R2 with SMB Direct is bringing it to the mainstream. File-based storage has grown tremendously over the last ...

I am going to be setting up a new VM host and am deciding between these two options. I chose Windows as I have the most experience with Hyper-V and I like the ability to use a drive on Windows (NTFS) ...

Microsoft quietly published new pricing and licensing sheets for its coming Windows Server 2012 R2 product. The bad news: Those who want the Datacenter version are going to have to shell out 28 ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" commercial release of its Hotpatch capability for virtual machines, which just works with the Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Azure Edition ...

It’s no surprise that a major focus for Microsoft in Windows Server is performance. Most people using Windows Server are using it to host critical business services and applications that directly ...

Microsoft is ready to talk about Windows Server 2019, the first fully-featured release of its server operating system since Windows Server 2016, which is due out later this year. Like the previous ...

Microsoft continued to publicize the software-defined networking (SDN) friendliness of its Windows Server 2016, this week providing new guidance and updating existing SDN resources. "If you're new to ...

Microsoft announced the general availability of hotpatching for Windows Server Azure Edition core virtual machines allowing admins to install Windows security updates on supported VMs without ...

In November, Microsoft released Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4. With the final release due out in the second half of this year, TP4 gives us the latest look at where Microsoft’s flagship ...