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Aidan Finn gives us his opinion of Microsoft’s approach to hyper-convergence, as was shared at Microsoft TechEd Europe 2014 in October.

Where should you save your file in the cloud? J. Peter Bruzzese offers advice to make the decision between saving it via OneDrive and SharePoint much easier depending on your needs.

Amazon recently announced several improvements to CloudWatch within the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, including support for extended metric retention, the addition of percentile statistics for metrics, and the ability to add high-resolution custom metrics and alarms.

Aidan Finn serves up tips for working with Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) to enhance storage transfers in Windows Server and Hyper-V.

Just before Microsoft’s Ignite conference got started this week, version 1809 of the Windows Admin Center and SDK reached general availability. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at some of the new features.

This RAID levels comparison article provides an overview of RAID storage levels. Veronica Henry provides an explanation of the most common RAID levels, including requirements and benefits of each level.

Microsoft has released several updates for its Office 365 platform this month including improvements for SharePoint and OneDrive.

Microsoft has finally made Windows Server 2019 (WS2019) generally available for IaaS virtual machines on their public cloud, Microsoft Azure.

Learn how to manage Exchange Online mailbox size limits using Windows PowerShell in this short how-to article by J. Peter Bruzzese.

There are two popular and mutually incompatible virtual disk file formats in common use today: VMware’s VMDK format and Microsoft’s VHD format. In order to attach a VHD disk to a VMware virtual machine, or vice-versa, you have to convert it first. This guide by virtualization and storage expert Tom Finnis explains how to use Starwind’s V2V Converter utility to do just that, with a detailed example explaining how to convert a VMDK virtual disk to VHD format and then mount it in a Windows system in order to edit the files it contains.