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Aidan Finn provides us a detailed look into Microsoft’s latest feature in Windows Server 2016, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).

Aidan Finn outlines the new features of Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V that were announced at Microsoft Ignite 2015.

Microsoft announces Nano Server, a server OS optimized for cloud infrastructure and born-in-the-cloud applications.

Aidan Finn shows us how enabling data deduplication on Windows Server 2012 R2 storage can save on your VDI deployment costs.

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

Aidan Finn gives an overview of Microsoft’s Cloud Platform System, which is the company’s cloud-in-a-rack solution built on Dell hardware.

Aidan Finn serves us a method for creating virtual machines on Hyper-V that are similar to those that you can run in Microsoft Azure.

While Microsoft has remained relatively tight-lipped about the new features in Windows Server vNext, Aidan Finn gives us an early look.

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

Considering the purchase of blade servers for your IT department? Aidan Finn argues that blade servers are the wrong choice for today’s data center.

Our two-part series on SMB 3.0 and SMB Multichannel concludes with a discussion of smart SMB design, SMB Multichannel constraints, and SMB bandwidth limits.

Use just a little bit o’ RAM or a lot! Learn to enable Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) Cache to improve the read performance of CSV in WS2012!