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Performance Results of Aggregating Standard Azure Disks

Aidan Finn performs several different tests to determine performance of aggregating standard data disks in Microsoft Azure.

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Bottlenecks of Modern Data Storage Technologies

Last Update: Dec 27, 2022

Get an overview of storage technologies focusing on the internal organization of data storage – going from the hardware level of a physical hard drive to the logical level of a file system layout.

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Windows Admin Center HCI Management Now Available for Windows Server 2016

After the release of a patch for Windows Server 2016 on April 16th, it’s now possible to manage hyper-converged infrastructure using the Windows Admin Center.

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How Would Microsoft Design a Scale-Out File Server: Disks, Networking, and More

Discover how disks, networks, servers, and Storage Bricks play a part in designing a SOFS in part 2 of this series.

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Results of Aggregating Azure Premium Disks

See how performance improves when you add additional data disks based on Premium Storage to an Azure virtual machine.

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Cloud & Hyper-V Predictions for 2017

The end of the year is fast approaching and it’s time to review my 2016 predictions and make my predictions for 2017.

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How Many CSVs Should a Scale-Out File Server Have?

Aidan Finn explains how many cluster shared volumes (CSVs) you should have in a Windows Server 2012 R2 Scale-Out File Server.

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Those Exchange Online Bottomless Archives Aren’t Quite There, Yet… Except in Some Places

It’s frustrating when a promised feature isn’t available. Microsoft announced auto-expanding archive mailboxes for Exchange Online in June 2016, but Office 365 customers have reported that their storage quota is limited to 170GB. That’s a lot of space, but hardly the “truly bottomless archive” that Microsoft promised. What’s going on?

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – March 2019 Edition

As we approach Build, Microsoft is ramping up the Azure announcements; here’s everything that happened last month.

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System Center Virtual Machine Manager SoFS: Building a Virtual SoFS Lab

Discover how to build a virtual Scale-Out File Server (SoFS) lab in part one of a new series on System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2.

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