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Aidan Finn serves up a wish list of the top features and improvements he’d like to see in the next version of Hyper-V.

Sean Wilkins discusses QoS Classification and Marking configuration in relation to VoIP Quality of Service implementation on Cisco equipment. This marking is used by devices on the network to prioritize high priority over low priority marked traffic. Also covered are Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) values, Per Hob Behaviors (PHB) and Modular QoS Command Line Interface (MQC).

Microsoft made a ton of announcements at this week’s SharePoint conference in Las Vegas. If you’re an Office 365 tenant administrator, the health of SharePoint Online and what it and OneDrive for Business can do is important to you. Among all the fluffy stuff about intelligent intranets, there was some good news about improvements in administration, security, and network utilization, all of which will help other Office 365 apps too.

Microsoft has declared some undefined period, perhaps starting at the Ignite conference, to be the “Year of Yammer.” Cynics might say “What! Yet again?” as Microsoft tries to position its enterprise networking app within Office 365 collaboration as it certainly feels like we have been down this path before. On the upside, this attempt seems to focus on what Yammer is good at instead of mimicking other apps. Time will tell.

Microsoft announced that Azure Stack (MAS) would be released in mid-2017 via a set of hardware partners on highly tested and certified systems, naming HPE, Dell, and Lenovo. This means that Microsoft’s new private cloud solution will only be available via a few partners, on very specific hardware sets. Is this a good or a…

Broadcom and Google have announced a new license portability plan that will allow enterprise customers to run VMware workloads on Google Cloud. Broadcom is also actively advocating for the benefits of the changes to its VMware products among partners and customers. In the new license portability scheme, customers who purchased VMware Cloud Foundation software from…

We’re creating a scale-out file server (SOFS) to share failover storage using Windows Server 2012 R2. Learn how with this how-to guide!

Check out what’s new in Server 2012 Hyper-V live migration, including queuing, SMB 3.0 live migration, better performance options, and more!

In this article, we’ll examine some of the main challenges of today’s backup and disaster recovery procedures. Then, we’ll dive into the top five most important features to look for in an on-premises Veeam storage solution for your backups. Data protection is one of the most critical tasks for IT administrators, and there is no…

Just what is Server 2012 Hyper-V Live Migration, anyway? Discover Live Migration’s capabilities, flexibility, and more in this introduction.