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Check out our review of DataON Storage DNS-1640 JBOD, used for clustered Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 (WS2012) and Windows Server 2012 R2 (WS2012 R2).

Aidan Finn takes a look at Proximal Data AutoCache, a product that boosts read performance of virtualization storage for Hyper-V and vSphere.

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.

Windows Server 2016 improves the speed of VHD and VHDX operations. Aidan Finn show the results using basic 1 GbE iSCSI storage.

Uncover what Microsoft’s Jeffery Snover has to say about WS2012 R2, PowerShell, and Microsoft’s ‘3 cloud’ strategy in this wide-ranging interview.

You like free, right? Check out our favorite free Hyper-V tools, including Hyper-V backup, P2V tools, Hyper-V virtual switch management, and more!

I’ve heard a couple of feature requests for Hyper-V since I started working with Hyper-V back in 2008. Nested virtualization is one of those heavily requested features. Microsoft repeatedly said that they would love to provide Hyper-V nested virtualization, but they didn’t see the need for real world applications, outside of demos, testing, and training. As…

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

ReFS, NTFS, and SMB – oh my! Find out about new storage and file services features in Windows Server 2012 in this Ask an Admin article.

Waffling over virtualization options? Check out this op-ed comparison between WS2012 R2 Hyper-V and VMware vSphere 5.5 from the Hyper-V perspective.