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Learn the best practices behind creating a converged network using a Windows Server 2012 NIC team – and then connect to a virtual switch.

Windows Admin Center (WAC) is the modern evolution of “in-box” management tools, like MMC (Microsoft Management Console) and Server Manager for Windows Server management. WAC provides wizards to guide users through its deployment and deploying Windows Servers and other cluster solutions. Learn more about what Windows Admin Center features and capabilities might be useful to…

Windows Server 2016 will offer a new way to do converged networking called Switch Embedded Teaming that also allows SMB Direct (RDMA) to be converged.

The buzz around Microsoft Copilot has been well-documented. Since its inception, this intelligent AI assistant tool has offered users access to a wealth of information and resources to help them work more efficiently and effectively. It’s certainly part and parcel of Microsoft’s continued excellence in responsible AI integration across its estate. In this article, I’ll outline…

Backup and replication are common data protection concepts, but they serve different purposes. Learn more about their differences and how they can benefit your data management strategy, especially how the backup vs replication argument relates to Active Directory (AD) and protecting it. What are backup and replication? Although backup and replication are both methods of…

Not sure which IT skills to devote your time and effort towards learning next year? Aidan Finn suggest five Hyper-V skills you should learn for 2015.

With Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions becoming more common, many customers are now concerned with building clusters on top of those environments. In this article, I’ll explain how to build a guest HCI cluster and why traditional approaches don’t work. In the past, customers built redundancy and resilience based on virtualization and Storage Area Networks…

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.

Learn how to make the most of 10GbE or faster networking to make that Hyper-V live migration quicker in this handy article.

Learning the different aspects of networking can be a daunting task, but Cisco has developed a number of games to help. In this post, Sean Wilkins reviews the Cisco Aspire CCNA Edition, a game filled with tasks that encompass more than 80% of the material covered on the CCNA exam. This article covers how the game is structured and how you can use it to improve your networking skills.